Carlos Ominami
| Carlos Ominami Pascual | |
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Carlos Ominami in 2010
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| Minister of State - economy | |
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In office 11 March 1990 – 28 September 1992 |
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| Senator | |
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In office 1994–2009 |
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| Constituency | Circunscripción 5, V Región de Valparaíso |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 18, 1950 Santiago, Chile |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Political party | Socialist Party of Chile (PSC) (1984-2009) |
| Other political affiliations |
Convergencia Socialista (1978-1983) |
| Spouse(s) | Manuela Gumucio |
| Alma mater | University of Chile |
| Occupation | Economist and politician |
| Website | Carlos Ominami |
Carlos Octavio Ominami Pascual (born Santiago, 18 June 1950) is a Chilean economist and politician, former parliamentarian and former Chilean Minister of State.
Of partly Japanese ancestry, the son of Carlos Ominami Daza and Edith Pascual. He is married to the journalist and sociologist Manuela Gumucio, daughter of the former parliamentarian Rafael Agustín Gumucio and ex-wife of the general secretary of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), Miguel Enríquez (d. 1974). His only child is Marco Enríquez-Ominami, the offspring of his wife from a previous relationship, whom he adopted as his own son from an early age.
He studied in Santiago at the Instituto Nacional and at the Faculty of Economics and Business in the University of Chile. During his student days he joined the Frente de Estudiantes Revolucionarios (FER), remaining a member until 1973.
He was active in the MIR from 1968. In 1973, following the deposition of President Salvador Allende, he went into exile. He sought asylum in the Belgian embassy in Chile, then travelled to Brussels and then to Paris,where he took a doctorate in economics at the University of Paris in Nanterre. He worked as a researcher, between 1975 and 1978 in the Centre d'Etudes Prospectives d'Economie Mathématiques Apliquée à la Planification (CEPREMAP); from 1978 to 1984 in the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); and in the Institut Français de Recherche pour le Développement en Cooperation.
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