Ignacio Briones Rojas (born 12 December 1972) is a Chilean economist, scholar and politician who served as Minister of Finance in the second government of Sebastián Piñera from 2019 until 2021.

He has also been a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and companies such as VTR and the stock brokerage LarraínVial.

In parallel, he was appointed as Executive Director of the Financial Stability Council, representative of Chile to the G20 in 2012 and Chilean Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) during the period 2013–2014.

[6] During his time in office, he spearheaded a $28 billion package of government aid to combat the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile, which included income support for the poor and subsidies for job creation.

He lost to Sebastian Sichel Under the pseudonym Eugenio de la Cruz, Briones was a relentless gastronomic critic of the defunct magazine Cosas, for many years.