Ángel Flisfisch

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Flisfisch and the second or maternal family name is Fernández.

Ángel Flisfisch Fernández (9 May 1941 – 8 May 2022) was a Chilean diplomat lawyer, researcher, and politician. He held various relevant positions during the administrations of the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia governed the country between 1990 and 2010. He served as Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Chile from 2009 to 2010 and Ambassador of Chile in Singapore.^[1][2][3]

Angel Flisfisch
Flisfisch in March 2009.
Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Chile
In office 18 November 2009 – 11 March 2010
President	Michelle Bachelet
Preceded by	Alberto van Klaveren
Succeeded by	Fernando Schmidt
Chilean Undersecretary of the Navy
In office 2000–2002
President	Ricardo Lagos
Preceded by	Renán Fuentealba Vildósola
Succeeded by	Patricio Morales Aguirre
Chilean Undersecretary of Aviation
In office 13 November 1995 – 11 March 2000
President	Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Preceded by	Mario Fernández Baeza
Succeeded by	Nelson Hadad Heresy
Undersecretary General of the Presidency of Chile
In office 11 March 1994 – 1 June 1995
President	Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
Preceded by	Ricardo Solari
Succeeded by	Jorge Rosenblut Ratinoff
Personal details
Born	(1941-05-09)9 May 1941
Died	8 May 2022(2022-05-08) (aged 80)
Residence(s)	Santiago, Chile
Alma mater	University of Chile
Profession	Lawyer

Education

He studied law at the University of Chile and did postgraduate studies in political science at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and at the University of Michigan, where he obtained a master's degree in political science.^[4]

Career

He served as Undersecretary of Aviation, Under Secretary of the Navy, and Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He also held the position of Secretary Pro Tempore of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), and Director of Planning of the Foreign Affairs. At the academic level, he was director of FLACSO in Santiago and a member of the board of directors of Universidad Diego Portales. He also published in the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) and the Center for Public Studies (CEP).^[5][6]

Publications

• Studies on the party system in Chile.
• Consensus, pact, project, and democratic stability.
• Politics as a democratic commitment.
• Conceptual models of politics.
• Intellectuals and institutions of culture.
• Parties and Democracy.
• Chilean Neoliberalism: the functions of dogmatism.
• The spirit of democratic capitalism