Ernesto Ottone
Minister of Culture, the Arts, and Patrimony
In office
1 March 2018 – 11 March 2018
PresidentMichelle Bachelet
Succeeded byAlejandra Pérez Lecaros
Minister President of the National Council of Culture and the Arts
In office
11 May 2015 – 1 March 2018
PresidentMichelle Bachelet
Preceded byClaudia Barattini
Personal details
Born
Ernesto Renato Ottone Ramírez

(1972-12-11) 11 December 1972
Valparaíso, Chile
SpouseMaría José Álvarez
Parents
  • Ernesto Ottone Fernández (father)
  • Patricia Ramírez (mother)
Alma materParis Dauphine University
OccupationActor, cultural manager

Ernesto Renato Ottone Ramírez (born 11 December 1972) is a Chilean actor and cultural manager. He served in the second government of Michelle Bachelet, first as Minister President of the National Council of Culture and the Arts (2015–2018),[1] and then as the Minister of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage. In 2018 he was appointed Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO.[2][3]

Biography

The son of Ernesto Ottone Fernández, an adviser to President Ricardo Lagos, and Patricia Ramírez, Ernesto Ottone left Chile at a young age, months before General Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état against the government of Salvador Allende, because that February his father, in that militant communist era, had been appointed vice president of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, based in Budapest.[4] He grew up with his sister Soledad in Hungary and later lived in Paris, a city to which his father moved in 1982 after resigning from the Communist Party.[5] For his work at the UN, Ottone Sr. moved with the family to Vienna in 1984, where they remained until the beginning of 1986. They spent a year in Uruguay, returned to Paris for another two years, and finally returned to Chile in 1989.[5][6]

In Chile, Ernesto Ottone attended Santiago College for his last two years of secondary education, after which he continued studying theater at the University of Chile. At age 19, he left the house to live with his partner, a woman who had a son from a previous relationship. In parallel to his studies, he was a waiter (at Tallarín Gordo and La Leona) and a bartender, worked at the Municipal Theater, made short films, and sold cell phones.[7]

Ottone graduated as an actor and obtained a postgraduate degree in cultural management, a field in which he started working in 1997. Later he went to Germany, where his then partner had obtained a scholarship; there their son Liam was born. He was then called on to take over the Matucana 100 project. "I came with a clear head, having lived almost a year and a half in Berlin, where the only thing I did was absorb good vibes," recalled Ottone in a 2015 interview.[7] He headed that cultural center from its creation in 2001 until April 2010. He also received a master's degree in institutional management and cultural policies from Paris Dauphine University.[8]

After Matucana 100, in July 2010 he took over direction of the Salvador Allende Museum of Solidarity.[9] The following year he went on to head the Artistic and Cultural Extension Center of the University of Chile – which manages the National Ballet and the Symphony Orchestra – a position which he held until leaving to serve as Minister of Culture in May 2015.[10]

At the beginning of his career he was a culture advisor for the Valparaíso Urban Recovery and Development Program. He has been a member of the Network of Directors of Cultural Centers of Latin America and Europe (since 2002),[8] a founding partner of the Cultural Reading Corporation, and has passed through the Estación Mapocho and La Cúpula cultural centers.[11] He has been a board member of the Youth Orchestras Foundation and president of the Chilean Corporation for the Preservation and Development of Textile Heritage. As well as a professor at the University of Chile's Institute of Public Affairs (INAP), he has been a professor of master's theses in cultural management from the same house of studies. He has worked in foreign cultural institutions such as France's Grande halle de la Villette and Berlin's Kulturbrauerei.[1]

Awards and recognitions

References

  1. 1 2 López, María Graciela (11 May 2015). "Ernesto Ottone Ramírez asume como nuevo Ministro de Cultura" [Ernesto Ottone Ramírez Assumes Office as New Minister of Culture] (in Spanish). Radio Bío-Bío. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Assistant Director-General | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". www.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
  3. ↑ Soto, Claudia (2018-03-29). "Ex ministro de Cultura Ernesto Ottone es nombrado como subdirector en la Unesco". La Tercera. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
  4. ↑ Ottone, Ernesto (1 August 2014). El viaje rojo: Un ejercicio de memoria [The Red Journey: A Memory Exercise] (in Spanish). Penguin Random House. ISBN 9789568410988. Retrieved 19 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. 1 2 Montes, Rocío (18 August 2015). "La importancia de llamarse Ottone" [The Importance of Being Named Ottone]. Caras (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 25 March 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  6. ↑ Ottone, Ernesto (1 August 2014). "Fin del viaje, estación terminal" [End of the Journey, Final Station]. El viaje rojo: Un ejercicio de memoria [The Red Journey: A Memory Exercise] (in Spanish). Penguin Random House. ISBN 9789568410988. Retrieved 19 April 2018 – via Google Books.
  7. 1 2 Cabezas, Estela (23 May 2015). "Las muchas vidas de Ernesto Ottone" [The Many Lives of Ernesto Ottone]. El Mercurio Sábado (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Ernesto Ottone Ramírez, experimentado gestor cultural al Ministerio de Cultura" [Ernesto Ottone Ramírez, Experienced Cultural Manager at the Ministry of Culture]. La Tercera (in Spanish). 11 May 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  9. ↑ "El plan de Ottone para el Museo de la Solidaridad" [Ottone's Plan for the Museum of Solidarity]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). 14 July 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  10. 1 2 "Ernesto Ottone: de la Universidad de Chile a nuevo ministro de Cultura y las Artes" [Ernesto Ottone: From the University of Chile to New Minister of Culture and the Arts]. El Mostrador (in Spanish). 11 May 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  11. ↑ "Ernesto Ottone deja la dirección de Matucana 100" [Ernesto Ottone Leaves Directorship of Matucana 100]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Santiago. 1 April 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  12. ↑ "El perfil y las ideas con que Ernesto Ottone arriba al Consejo de Cultura" [The Profile and Ideas with Which Ernesto Ottone Arrives at the Council of Culture]. El Mercurio (in Spanish). Santiago. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
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