Claudia Serrano

She subsequently served as Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, becoming the second woman to hold that office, from 2008 to 2010. She earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) and later obtained a master's degree in public management and public policy from the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Chile. She also completed a doctorate in sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France. Her son, Miguel Crispi, from her first marriage to José Miguel Crispi, served as president of the PUC Student Federation (FEUC) in 2009. In March 2022, he was appointed Undersecretary of Regional and Administrative Development in the administration of President Gabriel Boric. She is married in her second marriage to fellow socialist Patricio Tapia Santibáñez, who served as general manager of the state-owned Correos de Chile between 2006 and 2010. At the beginning of her professional career, in 1983, she worked as a researcher at the Corporation for Latin American Economic Research (CIEPLAN). In 1989, she served as technical secretary of the Women's Commission of the government program prepared by the then-opposition Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia.