Paula Benavides

Board member

Areas: Social Security (Health and Pensions)

She is an economist and Master in Applied Economics with a mention in Financial Economics from the Universidad Católica de Chile. She is currently a consultant for national and international organizations (ILO, ECLAC and the World Bank, among others).

From June 2022 to December 2023, she served as the executive president of Espacio Público, being the first woman to hold that position.

She has developed a long professional career in the Finance Ministry, an institution in which she has held various positions since 1999. She participated in the development of the Structural Balance methodology, being co-author in 2001 of the first version of the fiscal rule methodology. She was responsible for the creation of the Department of Research and Actuarial Studies of the Budget Office (2009-2013), Coordinator of Studies of the Finance Ministry (2014-2015), Coordinator of Social Policies of the Finance Ministry (2015-2017) and Deputy Director of Rationalization and Public Function of the Budget Office (2018).

When it comes to pension, she was in charge of the technical teams of the Budget Office for the preparation of the 2008 pension reform and later of the technical secretariat of the Committee of Ministers on Reform of the Pension System (2015-2016) and of the technical secretariat of the Table of Representatives of Political Parties for a Reform of the Pension System (2016-2017). During that period, she was in charge of the elaboration and interministerial coordination of the pension system reform. She is author of various publications and studies on fiscal policy, social policies, pension systems and gender equity.