title: Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (Chile)
text: # Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (Chile)
  
  The Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (Spanish: Ministerio Secretaría General de la Presidencia) is the cabinet-level administrative office (equivalent to the president's Chief of Staff) which serves in an advisory role to the President of Chile and her or his ministers in the governments' relations with the National Congress of Chile, the development of the legislative agenda, and keeping track of the bills and other legislative activity in Congress as they pertain to the government.
  
  The ministry was created in 1990 during the government of Patricio Aylwin, and the first appointee and longest-serving Minister so far was Edgardo Boeninger Kausel.
  
  The Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency is Álvaro Elizalde, who was appointed by President Gabriel Boric on 19 April 2023.
  
  ## Titulars
  
  | Name | Entered Office | Exited Office | Appointed by |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Edgardo Böeninger Kausel | 11 March 1990 | 11 March 1994 | Patricio Aylwin |
  | Genaro Arriagada Herrera | 11 March 1994 | 1996 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
  | Juan Villarzú Rohde | 1996 | 1998 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
  | John Biehl del Río | 1998 | 22 June 1999 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
  | José Miguel Insulza Salinas | 22 June 1999 | 11 March 2000 | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
  | Álvaro García Hurtado | 11 March 2000 | 2002 | Ricardo Lagos |
  | Mario Fernández Baeza | 2002 | 2003 | Ricardo Lagos |
  | Francisco Huenchumilla Jaramillo | 2003 | 2004 | Ricardo Lagos |
  | Eduardo Dockendorff Vallejos | 2004 | 11 March 2006 | Ricardo Lagos |
  | Paulina Veloso Valenzuela | 11 March 2006 | 27 March 2007 | Michelle Bachelet |
  | José Antonio Viera-Gallo Quesney | 27 March 2007 | 11 March 2010 | Michelle Bachelet |
  | Cristián Patricio Larroulet Vignau | 11 March 2010 | 11 March 2014 | Sebastián Piñera |
  | Ximena Cecilia Rincón González | 11 March 2014 | 11 May 2015 | Michelle Bachelet |
  | Jorge Insunza Gregorio de Las Heras | 11 May 2015 | 7 June 2015 | Michelle Bachelet |
  | Patricia Silva Meléndez | 7 June 2015 | 27 June 2015 | Michelle Bachelet |
  | Nicolás Eyzaguirre | 27 June 2015 | 31 August 2017 | Michelle Bachelet |
  | Gabriel de la Fuente Acuña | 31 August 2017 | 11 March 2018 | Michelle Bachelet |
  | Gonzalo Blumel Mac Iver | 11 March 2018 | 28 October 2019 | Sebastián Piñera |
  | Felipe Andrés Ward Edwards | 28 October 2019 | 4 June 2020 | Sebastián Piñera |
  | Claudio Alvarado | 4 June 2020 | 28 July 2020 | Sebastián Piñera |
  | Cristián Monckeberg | 28 July 2020 | 6 January 2021 | Sebastián Piñera |
  | Juan José Ossa | 6 January 2021 | 11 March 2022 | Sebastián Piñera |
  | Kenneth Giorgio Jackson Drago | 11 March 2022 | 6 September 2022 | Gabriel Boric |
  | Ana Lya Uriarte | 6 September 2022 | 19 April 2023 | Gabriel Boric |
  | Álvaro Elizalde | 19 April 2023 | Incumbent | Gabriel Boric |
  