Alberto van Klaveren

Albert Leo "Alberto" van Klaveren Stork (born 27 October 1948) is a Dutch-born Chilean lawyer, political scientist, and diplomat who has been serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 10 March 2023.

In 1972, van Klaveren began working for the Institute for International Studies and the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile.

[2] From 1985 and 1992, he worked for the Institute for European-Latin American Relations and the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, both located in Spain.

[2] Van Klaveren returned to Chile in 1992, where he started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and resumed his position at the Institute for International Studies.

Three years later, in 2004, the Chilean embassies to the European Union, Belgium and Luxembourg merged and van Klaveren became the ambassador to all three.

Official portrait of van Klaveren in 2006, while he was Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs.