Pablo Huneeus

Who is Pablo Huneeus?

Pablo Miguel Huneeus Cox, born in Santiago, 1940, and raised in New Jersey, is a Chilean writer and social critic.

His more than thirty books are known for their lively personal style, sense of humor, and vivid portraits of real people. Several have been bestsellers.

Trained as a sociologist, he received his doctorate from the University of Paris. Huneeus has worked as a consultant for United Nations in Geneva, as a researcher for ECLA in Santiago, and as professor of industrial sociology at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Chile. He was the founding director of Chile's National Employment Service. Due to his concern for freedom of speech, he launched the MUAC Movimiento Universal Anti Censura.

Huneeus is a frequent contributor as a columnist to several of Chile's newspapers and has been foreign correspondent for The Economist in London and for The Wall Street Journal. He is often guest on Chilean television talk shows and has hosted his own show.

In order to defend authors' rights as avowed by the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works he copyrighted on behalf of José Ricardo Ojeda, the miner who penned on August 22 the now celebrated announcement The Times acclaims as “the most famous sentence in the world this year.”