Juan Carlos Silva Aldunate

On 11 March 2018, he was appointed by President Sebastián Piñera as Undersecretary of Arts and Cultures, being thus the first in charge of the newly created Ministry.

Since 2014, he is a partner of the cultural affairs agency Territorio Cultura. He has also developed his activity in the professional football industry, serving as vice president of Deportes Iquique, director of the Chilean Football Federation (FFCh) and the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP).

Silva Aldunate graduated as a lawyer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) in 2002. Then, he obtained a certificate in art administration from the New York University (NYU) in 2007, and a MA in law and a technology law certificate from the University of California, Berkeley (2009−2010).

He worked as an associate attorney at the Otero Law Firm (2002−2009) and was a founding partner of the Salón Tudor Cultural Space (2007−2011). Similarly, Silva Aldunate was a professor of communication law at the PUC from 2010 to 2012. Later, he was a legislative coordinator of the National Council of Culture and the Arts (CNCA, 2010−2014).

Silva also has a bachelor's degree in social sciences and humanities from the PUC (1995−1996). From 2002 to 2003, he did a degree in aesthetics in the same university.

Juan Carlos Silva Aldunate (born 24 September 1976) is a Chilean lawyer and politician, militant from Political Evolution.