Felipe Bulnes

Felipe Bulnes
Ambassador of Chile to the United States
In office
March 2012 – April 2014
PresidentSebastián Pinera
Michelle Bachelet
Preceded byArturo Fermandois
Succeeded byJuan Gabriel Valdés
Minister of Education
In office
18 July 2011 – 29 December 2011
PresidentSebastián Pinera
Preceded byJoaquín Lavín
Succeeded byHarald Beyer
Minister of Justice
In office
11 March 2010 – 18 July 2011
PresidentSebastián Pinera
Preceded byCarlos Maldonado
Succeeded byTeodoro Ribera
Personal details
Born (1969-05-27) 27 May 1969 (age 55)
Santiago, Chile
Political partyRenovación Nacional (RN)
Spouses
ChildrenOne
Parent(s)María Teresa Serrano
Francisco Bulnes Ripamonti
Relatives
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionLawyer

Felipe Bulnes Serrano (born May 27, 1969) is a Chilean lawyer and member of the party National Renewal. He was first Minister of Justice and then he assumed office as Minister of Education following a cabinet shuffle on July 18 amidst the ongoing 2011 Chilean student protests but renounced about six months later on December 29 explaining that he left because a "cycle has finished" and not because he would be fired.[1]

In 2012, Bulnes was appointed by the government of Sebastián Piñera as ambassador to the United States, handing his credentials to President Barack Obama on May 1, 2012.[2] He was afterwards Chile's representative at the La Haya International Court, after being renewed in that post by the government of President Bachelet. On November 23, 2015 he resigned this position and was replaced by former Minister José Miguel Insulza.

He graduated from Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Harvard Law School.[3]

  1. ^ Bulnes: "Renuncié por mi convicción política de que concluyó una etapa". Emol.
  2. ^ Embajador Felipe Bulnes presentó sus cartas credenciales ante Barack Obama
  3. ^ "Ambassador from Chile: Who is Felipe Bulnes?".