Under–Secretary for International Economic Relations
José Miguel Ahumada Franco
The Undersecretary of International Economic Relations, José Miguel Ahumada Franco, is a political scientist from Universidad Diego Portales. He holds a Master's degree in International Economics and Development from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He also holds an MSc in Development Studies at the London School of Economics and a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge.
His professional career has been linked to academic teaching in the area of international relations. Between 2014 and 2015 he was a professor at the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset and at the Universidad Diego Portales.
He also worked as an academic at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado and as a professor at the Universidad de Chile. In this last university he worked as assistant professor at the International Studies Institute.
Undersecretary José Miguel Ahumada has published more than a dozen book chapters and authored or co-authored four books related to his field of study.