Osvaldo Urrutia Silva has a distinguished career in international law, public management and multilateral organizations linked to the fishing and aquaculture sector.
This Wednesday 11 March took up his functions as Undersecretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture of the Government of President José Antonio Kast, Osvaldo Urrutia Silva, lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), who has a solid international academic background. He holds a Doctorate in Law from the Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand (2022), and a Master's in International Law from University College London (2008)
In the professional field, he has developed a career of more than 20 years linked to the public sector and international organizations, highlighting his work as a consultant in the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division of the FAO and his work in the Legal Division and the International Affairs Unit of the Subsecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture between 2009 and 2022.
On her first day in office, the new authority met with the technical teams of the undersecretariat in the central headquarters in Valparaíso, an occasion in which she shared with officials in a welcome marked by closeness and excitement.
In this new stage, Urrutia pointed out that his management will be aimed at strengthening a leadership based on scientific evidence, strict compliance with the current regulations and dialogue with all the actors in the fishing and aquaculture sector. With a technical stamp as a basis, the authority emphasized that the institutional framework must provide conditions for the economic development of the sector, promoting the growth of the fishing and aquaculture activity in a clear rules framework, sustainability and competitiveness. Likewise, he highlighted that the Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture is a state institution that acts according to consolidated technical mechanisms, which must be translated into concrete conditions for the sector to generate value, investment and employment.
"Our challenge, in the Government of President José Antonio Kast, is to consolidate a governance that combines sustainability, regulatory certainty and public confidence, putting the fishing and aquaculture activities at the service of the country's growth," said the new undersecretary.
The authority has also been recognized for its work in the academic field. Regarding this, up to the time of its appointment, it was serving as a professor of International Public Law and Maritime Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso.
