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Chile
His Excellency Arturo Fermandois Vöhringer
Arturo Fermandois Vöhringer became ambassador of Chile to the United States on June 21, 2010.

A lawyer, Ambassador Fermandois is a founding partner of Fermandois, Evans y Cia law firm who previously worked at the Studies and Foreign Trade Section of the Prosecutor’s Office of Banco del Estado de Chile. Throughout his legal career, he served as an advisor to the negotiating team for the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), arbiter of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the ICARE Legal Association as well as of the Chilean Association of Constitutional Law. As an academic, Ambassador Fermandois was a teacher at Harvard University and an associate professor at the Law School of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where until now he held the chairs of constitutional law and applied law. He is also the author of various legal books and publications, such as “Economic Constitutional Law” and “Applied Constitutional Law,” among others.

Ambassador Fermandois graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University, where he continues to be a member of the Dean’s Leadership Advisory Council of the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Embassy
of Chile

1732 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20036

Tel: (202) 785-1746
Fax:
(202) 887-5579



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