José Antonio Guzmán Cruzat

José Antonio Guzmán Cruzat
Preceded by	Orlando Poblete
Personal details
Occupation	President of University of the Andes

José Antonio Guzmán Cruzat (Chile, January 14, 1967) is a Chilean lawyer and academic, he is the president of the Universidad de los Andes of Chile, a position he took on for the first time. on January 21, 2014, and for a second five-year term since January 2019.

Education

He holds a PhD in education from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and a master's degree in education from Harvard University. His doctoral thesis is entitled "Fostering Teaching Quality in Chilean Universities". In 2008 he completed the Senior Management Program (PADE) of the ESE Business School of the Universidad de los Andes. In 1985 he entered the Faculty of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he obtained a Degree in Law (Juris Doctor) in November 1991 with a thesis on constitutional law.

Academic career

In 1991 he joined Universidad de los Andes of Chile as a professor of constitutional law at the Faculty of Law, of which he was its first academic secretary.

In 2006 he was appointed academic vice-president, a position he held for four years. On January 21, 2014 he became president of the Universidad de los Andes.

He is a member of the Standing Committee of the Higher Council of Universidad de los Andes (since July 2017 it is called the Presidential Council, due to the updating of its By-Laws), participating in all governance decisions.

In November 2018, the Board of Trustees of Universidad de los Andes renewed his appointment for a second five-year term

During this period, his opinion on various academic topics has been included in media of national relevance