Isabel Allende Bussi

Isabel Allende Bussi was born in Santiago in 1945. She is a sociologist from the University of Chile, graduated with a master's in Sociology from the Autonomous University of Mexico and a master's in Political Science from FLACSO. She was the founder and director of the Salvador Allende Foundation. Between 1994 and 2010, she was a deputy, serving as president of the Chamber of Deputies in 2003. She was also elected several times as Vice President and then, in 2015, President of the Socialist Party of Chile, being the first woman to hold the position. From March 2010 to March 2018, she was Senator for the Atacama Region. In 2017, she was elected Vice President of the Socialist International (SI), a position she currently holds. In March 2018, she was elected Senator for the Valparaíso Region. Today, she participates in the committees on Environment, Climate Change and National Assets; Women and Gender Equity; Border Zones and Special Territories; and Water Resources, Desertification and Drought, from where she has promoted a major National Pact and Strategy for Water.

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