Economists
- Hernán Büchi – Columbia University trained economist. Minister of Economy during Pinochet government. The father of the country's Economic Miracle
- Ricardo J. Caballero – MIT professor, Department of Economics
- Sebastián Edwards – UCLA professor, former World Bank officer (1993–1996), prolific author and media personality
- Alejandro Foxley – Chile's first Finance Minister after the return of democracy in 1990 and an engineer of the country's economic miracle during democracy; former Foreign Affairs minister, and former Chilean Senator for East Santiago.
- Manfred Max Neef – Alternative Nobel Prize winner, presidential candidate, member of the Club of Rome, former president of the Universidad Austral
- José Piñera – implemented the privatization of the Chilean pension system under Pinochet
- Andrés Velasco – Sumitomo Professor of International Finance and Development in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Finance Minister during Bachelet's administration
- Nicolás Eyzaguirre – former Finance Minister
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