Vanessa Kaiser | |
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Councilwoman of Las Condes | |
Assumed office 28 June 2021 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Vanessa Olimpia Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen 25 October 1977 Santiago, Chile |
Political party | Republican (since 2020)[1][2] |
Parent | Juan Kaiser Wagner[3] |
Relatives | Axel,[3] Johannes[3] and Leif (brothers)[3] |
Alma mater | |
Website | www |
Vanessa Olimpia Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen[1] (born 25 October 1977) is a Chilean columnist and politician serving as a councilwoman of Las Condes. She is the host of the Esfera Pública YouTube Channel and a political commentator with strong republican, democratic and libertarian tendencies.
She has a Master of Arts in philosophy, a PhD in political sciences and a PhD in philosophy.
She is the CEO of the Libertarian Centre of Studies of Chile (Spanish: Centro de Estudios Libertarios CEL),[4] and a columnist of El Líbero[6] and El Mostrador.[7][8] Her brothers are Axel Kaiser, a Chilean lawyer and author, and of Johannes Kaiser, a congressman and YouTuber.[9][3][10][11] Kaiser has given at the Fundación para el Progreso (FPP), where she has denounced liberalism as the "true bailout [of society]".[12]
She holds the Hannah Arendt chair of the Autonomous University of Chile.[13]
She was elected as councilman of Las Condes in 2021.[14][9][15]
On 18 October 2021, she was mentioned by Radio Bío-Bío as a possible minister of an eventual government of José Antonio Kast.[16] She signed the Madrid Charter, a document drafted by the far-right Spanish party Vox that describes left-wing groups as enemies of Ibero-America involved in a "criminal project" that are "under the umbrella of the Cuban regime".[17]