Jaime Bellolio

Jaime Andrés Bellolio Avaria (born 29 November 1980) is a Chilean business administrator and politician who has served as the mayor of Providencia since 2024.

A member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI), Bellolio served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2014 to 2020, and as Minister Secretary General of the Government during the second government of president Sebastián Piñera (2018–2022).

He was born on 29 November 1980, in Santiago, the son of public accountant and business runner Jaime Bellolio Rodríguez (PUC) and Margarita María Avaria Benapres (b. 1954).

His grandfather, Blas Bellolio Zappettini, was a senator for the Seventh Provincial Assembly of Ñuble, Concepción, and Arauco between 1953 and 1961. His brother, Álvaro, was head of the Department of Immigration and Migration (DEM) from March 2018 to 2021, being the last to hold that position.

His first cousin, Cristóbal Bellolio, of liberal persuasion, is a lawyer, political scientist, and PhD in political philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC).

In 1998, he graduated from secondary education at the Cordillera School in Las Condes, where he served as president of the Student Council. He later entered the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), earning a degree in business administration, and serving as president of the Students' Federation. . Thanks to a scholarship, he completed a master’s degree in public policy at the University of Chicago (United States), specializing in education, health, public safety, and transportation.

He has been married since 2006 to Teresita Zalaquett Jiménez, with whom he has four children: Jaime, Raimundo, Vicente, and León.

In 2005, he joined the Jaime Guzmán Foundation, working on education and public policy issues, serving as deputy director. He later coordinated the program “Youth in the Service of Chile,” a position he held until 2007. In 2008, he worked as a consultant for the Education Vicariate of the Archdiocese of Santiago.