Giorgio Jackson

Kenneth Giorgio Jackson Drago (born 6 February 1987) is a Chilean politician and engineer who was Chile's Minister of Social Development from 6 September 2022 until 11 August 2023.

He is the founder and first congressman of the Democratic Revolution political party, achieving the highest personal vote in the 2017 elections to the lower chamber.

After the protests of 2011, Jackson and other social activists and student leaders called for the founding of a political movement that became the Democratic Revolution party.

[4] During his time as minister in the government of President Gabriel Boric, the Criteria poll showed a decrease in Jackson's approval ratings from 48% in March 2022 to 37% in September of the same year.

Jackson studied at the Deutsche Schule Sankt Thomas Morus, a private school located in the Santiago commune of Providencia.

[citation needed] Jackson intervened in various official meetings, one of the most important of which was held in front of the Education Commission of the Senate of Chile, where he argued for "a moral imperative that the State be a guarantor of rights and not consumer goods".

[citation needed] He also made a trip to Europe together with Camila Vallejo and Francisco Figueroa, where they spoke to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Jackson with the other members of the FEUC directive board of 2010–11.
Jackson in a student march.
Giorgio Jackson celebrating with Gabriel Boric after Boric's election as President of Chile in 2021.