Carolina Cuevas
María Carolina Cuevas Merino (born 26 February 1966) is a Chilean politician. She was a founding member of Renovación Nacional.
Professional career
She earned a degree in business administration from the University of Chile and later completed a master's degree in service management and development at the Adolfo Ibáñez University (UAI). She has held executive positions in several financial services companies. She also served as an evaluator of the Chilean Management Excellence Model.
She worked as a researcher at the Center for Experiences and Services (CES UAI) of the UAI Business School and as a visiting lecturer at the Corporate Development Center, both affiliated with UAI.
She served as vice president of the board of Mujeres en Alta Dirección (RedMad), a non-profit corporation that seeks to add value to public and private organizations through the incorporation of female talent into senior management. She currently serves as a board member of companies and non-profit organizations.
Political career
A founding member of National Renewal (RN), she signed the founding charter that formally established the party.
She was part of the first national leadership of the Youth of National Renewal (JRN). She was elected, with the highest number of votes, as delegate to the Student Federation of the Faculty of Economics in the first direct elections held at the University of Chile. She later joined the first elected RN leadership of 21st District (Ñuñoa, Providencia), as part of the list headed by Francisco Bulnes Sanfuentes.
Appointed by the JRN leadership, she participated in the senatorial campaign of Sergio Onofre Jarpa. She was also part of the campaign teams for the parliamentary candidacies of Alberto Espina and Andrés Allamand. She further participated in the senatorial campaign of her party’s candidate, Sebastián Piñera, in 1989, and later joined the programmatic team of the 2017 presidential campaign of Piñera, from the “Women’s Commission.”
On 11 March 2018, she was appointed by President Sebastián Piñera as Undersecretary of Women and Gender Equity. Between 13 March and 6 May 2020, she served as acting Minister of Women and Gender Equity. She left the position of Undersecretary after being appointed president of the National Television Council (CNTV) on 21 January 2021.
External links
- Profile at CNTV