María Olivia Recart

María Olivia Recart is a commercial Engineer with a major in Economics from the University of Concepción and a Master of Arts in Economics from Georgetown. She has more than 25 years of experience in public policies, R&D, senior management of companies and non-profit organizations. She spent 16 years at Fundación Chile, and then served as undersecretary in the Ministry of Finance (2006-2010). At the end of 2010, she assumed as vice president of corporate affairs for the region of the Americas of the Australian mining company BHP and between 2019 and 2023 she was National Chancellor of the Santo Tomás University (UST). She is member of the Women’s Community Council, director of CAP and Aclara.