Juan Andrés Fontaine Talavera is the Chilean

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 Minister for the Economy, Development, and Reconstruction under President Sebastián Piñera

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Biography

Juan Andrés Fontaine Talavera was born in Santiago

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, Chile

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. He received a B.A. in Economics

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 from Universidad Católica de Chile and an M.A. from the University of Chicago

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He taught for a decade at his alma mater, Universidad Católica de Chile. He also taught at the University of Chile. In the 1990s, he taught as a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles

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. He also served as Director of Research at the Central Bank of Chile

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. He was also the Executive Chairman of Fontaine and Paúl Consultores.