Michelle Bachelet

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michelle Bachelet
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Sep 29, 1951(1951-09-29)
Age	73
Birthplace	La Cisterna
Country	Chile
Birth City	Santiago Metropolitan Region
Horoscope	Virgo

Michelle Bachelet Biography

Michelle Bachelet is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 29, 1951 in La Cisterna, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile. Socialist Party leader, who was President of Chile from 2006 to 2010. She began a second term as president in 2014. She was previously the Minister of Health in Chile and the Minister of National Defense.

Both she and her fellow female politician Soledad held high-ranking positions in the Chilean government. Alvear was the Foreign Minister in the Ricardo Lagos presidency.

Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (Spanish: [beˈɾonika miˈtʃel βatʃeˈle ˈxeɾja] ; born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018 for the Socialist Party of Chile, the first woman to occupy the position. After leaving the presidency in 2010 and while not immediately reelectable, she was appointed the first executive director of the newly created United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In December 2013, Bachelet was reelected with over 62% of the vote, bettering the 54% she obtained in 2006. She was the first President of Chile to be reelected since 1932.

Bachelet was born in La Cisterna, a middle-class suburb of Santiago. She was named after French actress Michèle Morgan. Bachelet spent many of her childhood years traveling around her native Chile, moving with her family from one military base to another. She lived and attended primary school in Quintero, Cerro Moreno, Antofagasta and San Bernardo. In 1962 she moved with her family to the United States, where her father was assigned to the military mission at the Chilean Embassy in Washington, D.C. Her family lived for almost two years in Bethesda, Maryland, where she attended Western Junior High School and learned to speak English fluently.

She was the daughter of Alberto Bachelet Martinez, a military general, and Angela Gomez, an archaeologist. Three children were born to her marriage to Jorge Leopoldo Davalos Cartes.

Michelle Bachelet Net Worth

Michelle Bachelet is one of the richest Politician from Chile. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michelle Bachelet 's net worth $3 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating from medical school at the University of Chile she worked in East Germany at a community clinic and then continued her training at Berlin’s Humboldt University.

She was the Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (also known as UN Women) from 2010 to 2013.

Bachelet’s paternal great-great-grandfather, Louis-Joseph Bachelet Lapierre, was a French wine merchant from Chassagne-Montrachet who immigrated to Chile with his Parisian wife, Françoise Jeanne Beault, in 1860; he was hired as a wine-making expert by the Subercaseaux vineyards in Santiago. Bachelet Lapierre’s son, Germán, was born in Santiago in 1862, and in 1891 married Luisa Brandt Cadot, a Chilean of French and Swiss descent, giving birth in 1894 to Alberto Bachelet Brandt.

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Who is Michelle Bachelet Dating?

According to our records, Michelle Bachelet married to Jorge Dávalos. As of December 1, 2023, Michelle Bachelet’s is not dating anyone.

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Following her return from exile she became politically active during the second half of the 1980s, fighting – though not on the front line – for the re-establishment of democracy in Chile. In 1995 she became part of the party’s Central Committee, and from 1998 until 2000 she was an active member of the Political Commission. In 1996 Bachelet ran against future presidential adversary Joaquín Lavín for the mayorship of Las Condes, a wealthy Santiago suburb and a right-wing stronghold. Lavín won the 22-candidate election with nearly 78% of the vote, while she finished fourth with 2.35%. At the 1999 presidential primary of the Concertación, Chile’s governing coalition from 1990 to 2010, she worked for Ricardo Lagos’s nomination, heading the Santiago electoral zone.

Facts & Trivia

Michelle Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Chile. Michelle Bachelet celebrates birthday on September 29 of every year.

During this time she also worked at PIDEE (Protection of Children Injured by States of Emergency Foundation), a non-governmental organization helping children of the tortured and missing in Santiago and Chillán. She was head of the foundation’s Medical Department between 1986 and 1990. Some time after her second child with Dávalos, Francisca Valentina, was born in February 1984, she and her husband legally separated. Between 1985 and 1987, Bachelet had a romantic relationship with Alex Vojkovic Trier, an engineer and spokesman for the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, an armed group that, among other activities, attempted to assassinate Pinochet in 1986. The affair was a minor issue during her presidential campaign, during which she argued that she never supported any of Vojkovic’s activities.

What was Michelle Bachelet known for?

She was the first President of Chile to be reelected since 1932. Bachelet, a physician who has studied military strategy at university level, was Health Minister and Defense Minister under her predecessor, Ricardo Lagos. She is a separated mother of three and describes herself as an agnostic.

Who is the UN human rights chief?

Michelle Bachelet , the head of the UN Human Rights Council, should be fired for looking the other way on genocide during her Chinese propaganda tour.

Who is the current High Commissioner of the United Nations?

Current High Commissioner On September 1, 2018 Michelle Bachelet assumed her functions as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Ms. Bachelet was elected President of Chile on two occasions (2006 – 2010 and 2014 – 2018). She was the first female president of Chile.

Who was Michelle Bachelet father?

Alberto Bachelet

Who was the first president woman in the world?

Sirimavo Bandaranaike : Female Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Because she made headlines by being the first female head of government in the world. Bandaranaike became the prime minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1960, joining politics after her husband (who was prime minister) was assassinated in 1959.