Jaime Ravinet

{{Short description|Chilean politician, lawyer, academic and businessman}}

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{{Infobox Politician

| name = Jaime Ravinet

| image = Jaime Ravinet.jpg

| caption = Jaime Ravinet, in 2004

| office1 = Minister of Defense

| term_start1 = 11 March 2010

| term_end1 = 13 January 2011

| president1 = Sebastián Piñera

| predecessor1 = Francisco Vidal

| successor1 = Andrés Allamand

| term_start2 = 29 September 2004

| term_end2 = 11 March 2006

| president2 = Ricardo Lagos

| predecessor2 = Michelle Bachelet

| successor2 = Vivianne Blanlot

| office3 = Minister for Housing, Urban Planning and National Property

| term_start3 = 29 December 2000

| term_end3 = 29 September 2004

| president3 = Ricardo Lagos

| predecessor3 = Francisco Vidal

| office4 = Mayor of Santiago

| term_start4 = 11 March 1990

| term_end4 = 6 December 2000

| election4 =

| predecessor4 = Máximo Honorato

| successor4 = Joaquín Lavín

| birth_name = Jaime Nicolás Ravinet de la Fuente

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|10|17|df=y}}

| birth_place = Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Christian Democratic Party
(1961−2010)

| education = University of Chile
Johns Hopkins University

| occupation = Lawyer

}}

Jaime Nicolás Ravinet de la Fuente (born 17 October 1946), is a Chilean politician, lawyer, academic and businessman. From 1990 to 2000 he was Mayor of Santiago, before becoming the Minister for Housing, Urban Planning and National Property in 2001, a position he held until 2004. He then became the Minister for Defence until 11 March 2006. In February 2010 he was re-appointed as Minister of Defence by president-elect Sebastián Piñera{{cite news|url=http://www.cooperativa.cl/designacion-de-ravinet-en-defensa-centro-el-anuncio-del-gabinete-de-pinera/prontus_nots/2010-02-09/200726.html|title=Designación de Ravinet en Defensa centró el anuncio del gabinete de Piñera|date=10 February 2010|publisher=Radio Cooperativa|language=Spanish|accessdate=21 December 2011}} but Ravinet resigned on 13 January 2011 after suggesting that the Chilean armed forces might be reluctant to help during humanitarian crises if that forced them to provide information about their expenses.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/chile-politics-reshuffle-idUSN147910420110114|title=Chile's Pinera reshuffles cabinet, keeps Larrain|date=2011-01-14|publisher=Reuters|accessdate=21 December 2011}}

He was born into a middle-class family, the eldest son of engineer Alfredo Ravinet and Alicia de la Fuente Larenas, who was Ravinet's second wife. He was educated at Santiago College, San Ignacio College and finally the University of Chile, where he studied law. He married political scientist Ximena Lyon Parot in January 1974, and has three children.