# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-pinera-echenique
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:39:42.598Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jose-pinera-echenique"
name: "José Piñera Echenique"
slug: "jose-pinera-echenique"
description: "José Piñera Echenique is a Chilean economist, one of the famous Chicago Boys, who served as minister of Labor and Social Security, and of Mining, in the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He is the architect of Chile's private pension system based on personal retirement accounts. Piñera has been called \"the world's foremost advocate of privatizing public pension systems\" as well as \"the Pension Reform Pied Piper\". He is now Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington, President of the International Center for Pension Reform based in Santiago, Senior Fellow at the Italian libertarian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni, and member of the advisory board of the Vienna-based Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe. He has a master's degree and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Piñera is a board member in Chile and an active supporter of SOS Children's Villages, the largest orphan and abandoned children's charity in the world."
tagline: "Chilean economist and free market reformer"
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gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1948-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump