Chile

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 7 July 1953

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Presidente de la República: Excmo. Sr Sebastián Piñera

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mr Jorge Edwards
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Chile to France, Permanent Delegate (9/15/2010)

Permanent Delegation of Chile to UNESCO
Maison de l'UNESCO Bureaux M1.04/05 1, rue Miollis 75732 PARIS Cedex 15
Telephone: 01.45.68.29.50
Fax: 01.45.68.29.52
E-mail: dl.chili@unesco-delegations.org

National Commission for UNESCO

Presidente: Felipe Bulnes Serrano
Vice-Presidente: Felipe Cousino Donoso
Secretaria Ejecutiva: Ms Ana María Foxley Rioseco

Comisión Nacional Chilena de Cooperación con la UNESCO
Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales Ministerio de Educación Avenida Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 1371, oficina 610 SANTIAGO DE CHILE Chile
Telephone: (56-2) 390 40 00 (56-2) 390 46 50; (56-2) 390 46 23
Fax: (56-2) 698 97 12 (56-2) 380 03 42
E-mail: comisionunesco@mineduc.cl; felipe.bulnes@mineduc.cl (Pt); felipe.cousino@mineduc.cl; ana.foxley@mineduc.cl (SG); catalina.frias@mineduc.cl
Web site: www.comisionunesco.cl

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Juvenal Hernández	1962-1967	64-77
Member	Mr Jorge Cash	1967-1970	77-85
Member	Mr Pablo Neruda	1972-1973	91-93
Member	Mr William Thayer	1974-1976	94-100
Member	Mr Gonzalo Figueroa Yañez	1993	143
Representative		1994-1997	144-152
Representative		1999-2003	158-167
Representative		2007- 2009	178-182
Representative		2009- 2011	183-187

Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).

Participation in subsidiary organs

Subsidiary organs of the General Conference


• Executive Board
  Representative (Term expires : 2011)


• Intergovernmental Council for the International Hydrological Programme
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)


• Legal Committee
  Member elected by the General Conference at its 34th session

Member elected by the General Conference at its 35th session

• Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Member

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean
  Designated Member : Riveros, Luis (Term expires : 35th General Conference)

Celebration of anniversaries

200th anniversary of the birth of Ignacio Domeyko (2002)

100th anniversary of the birth of Pablo Neruda (2004)Web site

100th anniversary of the birth of Roberto Matta Echaurren, painter (1911-2002) (2011)