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Ignacio Walker, former Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Government of Chile, was appointed Director of Political and Institutional Relations in the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency in 1990. He was elected Representative to the Chamber of Deputies in 1994, and re-elected in 1998. As a Representative, he first chaired the National Defence Committee, and then the Committee on Constitution, Law, and Justice. He was appointed to his present ministerial position in 2004. Mr Walker has combined his participation in politics with an academic career in political science.