Felipe Kast
{{Short description|Chilean economist, politician and consultant}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{family name hatnote|Kast|Sommerhoff|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Felipe Kast
| image = Senador Felipe Kast Sommerhoff (2022).jpg
| caption = Official portrait, 2022.
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1977|6|9}}
| birth_place = Santiago, Chile
| office = Member of the Senate of Chile
| constituency = 11th Circunscription (Araucanía Region)
| term_start = 11 March 2018
| term_end =
| predecessor = Creation of the charge
| successor =
| office1 = President of Evópoli
| term_start1 = 26 January 2015
| term_end1 = 6 November 2016
| predecessor1 = María Francisca Correa
| successor1 = Jorge Saint-Jean
| office2 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile
| constituency2 = 22nd District (Santiago Centro)
| term_start2 = 11 March 2014
| term_end2 = 11 March 2018
| predecessor2 = Alberto Cardemil
| successor2 = Dissolution of the charge
| office3 = Minister of Planning
| term_start3 = 11 March 2010
| term_end3 = 13 October 2011
| predecessor3 = Paula Quintana
| successor3 = Joaquín Lavín
| party = 18px Evópoli (2012–present)
| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (BA, MA)|Harvard Kennedy School (PhD)}}
| occupation = Politician
| profession = Economist
| parents = Miguel Kast Rist
Cecilia Christine Sommerhoff Hyde
| spouse = {{marriage|Emelia Puga|2004|2022|end=separated}}
| children = Four
| relatives = José Antonio Kast (uncle)
Javier Etcheberry (stepfather)
Pablo Kast (brother)
Michael Kast (grandfather)
Robert Schumann (great-great-great-grandfather)
Clara Schumann (great-great-great-grandmother)
| footnotes =
}}
Felipe José Kast Sommerhoff (born 9 June 1977) is a Chilean economist, researcher, consultant, and politician.
Early life and family
Kast is a nephew of far-right politician José Antonio Kast and son of the late economist Miguel Kast, who served as Minister of State and President of the Central Bank under the government of Augusto Pinochet. He is also the grandson of Michael Kast,{{Cite web |last=PIlleux Cepeda |first=Mauricio |date=2020-01-16 |title=Kast |url=https://www.genealog.cl/Alemanes/K.html#KAST |access-date=2021-11-18 |website=Genealog |language=es}} a German officer who escaped American custody, obtained a false identity, and migrated to Chile in 1950, and great-great-great-grandson of German composers Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}
Career
A graduate in economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile with a PhD from Harvard University,{{Cite web|url=https://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/2009/08/05/370319/felipe-kast-asume-como-director-del-programa-social-de-libertad-y-desarrollo.html|title=Felipe Kast asume como director del programa social de Libertad y Desarrollo|accessdate=4 May 2019|date=5 August 2009|publisher=Emol|language=es}} Kast has been Minister of Planning, presidential candidate in the 2017 primary elections and deputy for the commune of Santiago between 2014 and 2018. He currently serves as senator for the Araucanía Region after being elected to a six-year term in the 2017 parliamentary elections.{{cn|date=December 2021}}
As a right-wing independent,{{cn|date=December 2021}} Kast actively participated in President Sebastián Piñera's first government, first as Minister of State and then as Presidential Delegate for emergency camps and villages occupied by 27 February 2010 Earthquake victims.
Kast is a founder and former president of Evópoli, a conservative-liberal and centre-right party.{{Cite web|date=2020-01-02|title=Operación Infancia: el sueño de hacer de Chile un país más justo|url=https://araucaniadiario.cl/contenido/3745/operacion-infancia-el-sueno-de-hacer-de-chile-un-pais-mas-justo|access-date=2020-08-03|website=Araucanía Diario|language=es}} In what was described as a blow to Kast Gloria Hutt was elected president of the party in October 2022 rather than Kast's candidate Luciano Cruz-Coke.{{Cite news |title=La victoria de Gloria Hutt sobre Cruz-Coke: el trasfondo de la primera derrota interna de Felipe Kast en Evópoli |url=https://www.ex-ante.cl/la-victoria-de-gloria-hutt-sobre-cruz-coke-el-trasfondo-de-la-primera-derrota-interna-de-felipe-kast-en-evopoli/ |date=2022-10-23 |access-date=2022-10-23 |work=Ex-Ante |language=Spanish}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Felipe_Jos%C3%A9_Kast_Sommerhoff Chilean National Congress Library Profile]
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Category:21st-century Chilean economists
Category:Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Chilean people of German descent
Category:Politicians from Santiago, Chile
Category:Deputies of the LIV Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile
Category:Senators of the LV Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile
Category:Senators of the LVI Legislative Period of the National Congress of Chile