This recording is from “Is Chile’s President Gabriel Boric a busted flush?” which was an hour long webinar by Andrew Thompson and Kimberley Sperrfechter held on 18 January 2023.

Co-host: Strategic Insight Group

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Some of the areas the talk addressed, were:

• Why constitutional reform failed and what happens next
• Will pension and social reforms get through Congress?
• Political scenarios for the remainder of Boric’s presidency
• The macro-economic outlook for 2023
• Energy transition: opportunities and threats for Chile

Speakers

Andrew Thompson is an experienced freelance writer, analyst, and consultant with a background in political risk and economic analysis. He has closely followed Chilean politics since the 1980s when he was based in South America as a correspondent for, amongst others, The Guardian, The Times, and BBC World Service. As head of the BBC’s Latin American service he organised coverage of major political developments, including the restoration of democracy in 1990 and subsequent elections. He has recently undertaken consultancy work on the 2019 social explosion and on the mining sector.

Kimberley Sperrfechter is a Latin America Economist at Capital Economics, a macroeconomic consultancy based in London. She previously worked at the International Trade Centre in Geneva where she focused on Latin America and the Caribbean. Kimberley holds an undergraduate degree in International Business and Technology from the University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg, and a master’s degree in Economics from Ulm University.