Nivia Palma Manríquez (born 18 December 1959) is a Chilean politician and lawyer who served as minister of national assets.

In 2021, Palma worked as Paula Narváez's chief of campaign in the 2021 presidential primaries,[5][6][7][8] in which she lost against the christian-democrat Yasna Provoste.

In September 2002, she resigned from these positions, accusing pressure from the Navy for the Regional Government of Valparaíso to withdraw from the "Fondart 10 Years Program" and for the prohibition of the then Minister of Education, Mariana Aylwin (christian-democrat), to attend at the premiere of the play Prat, by Manuela Infante, in which the national hero appeared with "traits of cowardice, alcoholism and homosexuality.

Similarly, she led the return of books to the National Library of Peru in Lima as well as various original documentary archives to that country.

In the second government of Bachelet, Palma worked as head of the Judicial Directorate of the Ministry of National Assets until June 2015, when she assumed as legislative advisor of Ernesto Ottone, then Minister of Culture.