10 Facts About Ernesto Ottone

Ernesto Renato Ottone Ramirez was born on 11 December 1972 and is a Chilean actor and cultural manager.

Ernesto Ottone served in the second government of Michelle Bachelet, first as Minister President of the National Council of Culture and the Arts, and then as the Minister of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage.

Ernesto Ottone 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.

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.

Ernesto Ottone was then called on to take over the Matucana 100 project.

Ernesto Ottone headed that cultural center from its creation in 2001 until April 2010.

Ernesto Ottone received a master's degree in institutional management and cultural policies from Paris Dauphine University.

Ernesto Ottone has been a member of the Network of Directors of Cultural Centers of Latin America and Europe, a founding partner of the Cultural Reading Corporation, and has passed through the Estacion Mapocho and La Cupula cultural centers.

Ernesto Ottone has been a board member of the Youth Orchestras Foundation and president of the Chilean Corporation for the Preservation and Development of Textile Heritage.

Ernesto Ottone has worked in foreign cultural institutions such as France's Grande halle de la Villette and Berlin's Kulturbrauerei.