# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joaquin-lavin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:23:50.254Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joaquin-lavin"
name: "Joaquín Lavín"
slug: "joaquin-lavin"
description: "Joaquín José Lavín Infante is a Chilean politician of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party and former mayor of Las Condes, in the northeastern zone of Santiago. Formerly Lavín has also been mayor of Santiago, Minister of Education and Minister of Social Development. He ran for president twice in 1999 and 2005, losing both times. In 2021 he tried to run again, but this time he was defeated in a primary election by Sebastián Sichel. Besides his political involvement Lavín has been active in education in the University for Development, of which he was one of the founders and original owners, and as editor of the economics section in El Mercurio."
tagline: "Chilean politician (born 1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joaquin_Lavin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-10-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.4
  momentum:             8.224852071005918
  historical:           9.029489333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/LavinJoaquin"
    handle:    "LavinJoaquin"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Лавин, Хоакин"
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    title: "خواكين خوسيه لافين انفانتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joaquín Lavín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Lav%C3%ADn"
    title: "Joaquín Lavín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Lav%C3%ADn"
    title: "Joaquín Lavín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Lav%C3%ADn"
    title: "Joaquín Lavín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Lav%C3%ADn"
    title: "Joaquín Lavín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%98%B8%EC%95%84%ED%82%A8_%EB%9D%BC%EB%B9%88"
    title: "호아킨 라빈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joaquín Lavín"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Lav%C3%ADn"
    title: "Joaquín Lavín"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump