Igor Garafulic Olivares is a Chilean economist, academic, and former intendant of the Santiago Metropolitan Region under the 2006 - 2010 administration of president Michelle Bachelet.

At age fifteen, he returned to Chile, completing his secondary education at the Instituto Nacional (National Institute) in Santiago.

After earning a Master of Science degree from Oxford University, where his thesis was on the implications for Chile of its entry into North American Free Trade Agreement.

[1] Since 1990, he joined the negotiating teams of the free trade agreements (FTAs) that Chile has signed.

[3] For his noteworthy work in the political dialogue process,[4][5][6] Garafulic was decorated with the "Gran Cruz Placa de Plata" grade of the Order José Cecilio del Valle by the Executive Branch,[7] as well with the grade of "Gran Cruz Placa de Oro" and"Pergamino Especial" by the Legislative Branch.