Ernesto Renato Ottone RamÃrez (born 11 December 1972) is a Chilean
actor and cultural manager. He served in the second government [es] of
Michelle Bachelet, first as Minister President of the National Council
of Culture and the Arts (2015â€"2018), and then as the Minister of
Cultures, Arts, and Heritage. In 2018 he was appointed Assistant
Director-General for Culture of UNESCO.The son of Ernesto Ottone
Fernández, an adviser to President Ricardo Lagos, and Patricia
RamÃrez, 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. 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. 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.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
TallarÃn Gordo and La Leona) and a bartender, worked at the Municipal
Theater, made short films, and sold cell phones.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. 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.
actor and cultural manager. He served in the second government [es] of
Michelle Bachelet, first as Minister President of the National Council
of Culture and the Arts (2015â€"2018), and then as the Minister of
Cultures, Arts, and Heritage. In 2018 he was appointed Assistant
Director-General for Culture of UNESCO.The son of Ernesto Ottone
Fernández, an adviser to President Ricardo Lagos, and Patricia
RamÃrez, 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. 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. 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.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
TallarÃn Gordo and La Leona) and a bartender, worked at the Municipal
Theater, made short films, and sold cell phones.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. 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.
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