Mario Schilling

Schilling was a candidate for deputy in the 2013 parliamentary elections for the 22nd district (Santiago Centro) as an independent candidate for the electoral coalition Si tu quieres, Chile cambia (If you want, Chile changes), getting the fourth place with 5,468 votes. After that candidacy, he did not continue to participate in politics.

In 2010, he participated as columnist for El Mostrador and panelist in the radio programs Buenos días mercado in Radio El Conquistador and Palabras sacan palabras in Radio Futuro. At the end of the decade, Schilling – along with Agustín Zamora, host of the program Consciencia de Valores – participated in several seasons in the channels UCV Televisión, Vive and Tendencias Prime Chile. On Tendencias Prime Chile, Schilling hosted the program Camino al Futuro.

He graduated from the University of Chile with a master's degree in Philosophy. He submitted a thesis on the Epistemology of Social Sciences regarding the teachings of Mario Bunge and his research was co-directed by the aforementioned philosopher from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. In 2009 he obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Chile. His thesis on the Ethical Aspects of the New Criminal Law of the Enemy was published by Publitecnia Press.

Subsequently, in 2005, with the experience acquired in the ninth region, Schilling obtained an appointment decree to act as communications advisor to regional prosecutor Xavier Armendáriz after winning, again, a public competition. From 2005 to 2011, while serving as spokesman for the Eastern Prosecutor's Office, he had high media exposure, being interviewed several times.

Between 2002 and 2011, Schilling served as Communicational Advisor to the Public Prosecutor's Office obtaining this position after a public competition. During his first term in the Araucanía Public Prosecutor's Office, he trained a lawyer as spokesperson for the entity and was in charge of the public opinion management of the repartition.

In 1991, he joined the team of reviewers in the book section of El Mercurio, where he published work continuously until 2002. He also collaborated for the magazine Ercilla, as a columnist of the book section, under the pseudonym of Max Demian.

In 1988, Schilling entered the Literary Workshop of the poetess Alejandra de Groote, meeting place of the main writers and poets of the region of Valparaíso in the 1980s. In September 1989, Schilling became a columnist in the newspaper El Mercurio de Valparaíso in the Arts and Culture section, analyzing the narrative scene of the time.

Mario Tomás Schilling Fuenzalida (Santiago, March 9, 1969) is a Chilean lawyer, journalist, columnist and philosopher, popular for his media presence as a spokesman for the Eastern Prosecutor's Office in Santiago and as a panelist for the television programs Consciencia de Valores and Camino al Futuro on Tendencias Prime Chile channel, in addition to his participation in the channels UCV Televisión and Vive.

Schilling was born on March 9, 1969 in Santiago, to his parents Mario Fernando Schilling Besoaín and María Bernardita Fuenzalida Rioseco. He studied at the Verbo Divino school in Santiago and at the Sagrados Corazones, Padres Franceses and Saint Paul's School, both in Viña del Mar. Later, he studied Journalism at the University of Las Condes (now Universidad del Desarrollo de Santiago) and Law at the Major University. In regards to his legal education, he studied at the Adolfo Ibáñez University a master's degree in Tributary Management.