Yasna Provoste
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December 16, 1969 Santiago, Chile, Chile |
| Residence | Santiago, Chile, Chile |
Yasna Provoste Campillay (born December 16, 1969) is a Chilean teacher and Christian Democrat politician. Since March 2014 she is a deputy at the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, representing District 6 of the Atacama Region of northern Chile. In 2008, as Minister of Education, she became the first minister to be impeached by Congress since democracy returned in 1990.
Provoste was born in Vallenar, north of Chile, to a family of Diaguita descent. At the age of nine she was a national champion in gymnastics, for which she received a scholarship to study at the women's boarding school in Santiago. Back in Vallenar she switched to athletics, becoming a pentathlon champion.
Provoste majored in physical education at the Playa Ancha University of Educational Sciences in Valparaíso. She pursued postgrad studies in education administration at the same university, and in local government and decentralization in Colombia. During her university years she was twice president of the student board and was a member of the student's federation.
During the Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle administration Provoste was the Atacama Region director of the National Women's Service (1996–97) and governor of the Huasco Province (1997–2001). During President Ricardo Lagos's tenure she was intendant of the Atacama Region (2001–04), minister of Planning (2004–06) and, during Michelle Bachelet's presidency, National Executive Director of Integra Foundation (2006) and minister of Education (2006–08).
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