Paula Escobar-Chavarría
Journalist/Professor
La Tercera/CNN Chile/ Tele13 Radio/ UDP
About
Paula Escobar Chavarría is a Chilean journalist and writer. She is opinion Sunday columnist at La Tercera, panelist at Tele13 radio, and has her own TV show on CNN Chile called Influyentes. She has written ten non fiction books, and is the founder of the Women and Media Chair at Universidad Diego Portales, where she is also a tenured professor. She has received many awards: Young Global Leader (by the World Economic Forum), BBC 100 women 2015, Excellence in Journalism, Poynter Fellow, Lenka Franulic (for the most outstanding woman journalist in Chile, and Raquel Correa (for the best interviewer). She serves at the board of the Young Global Leaders Foundation, of the National Opera House of Chile and of The New Humanitarian, and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile.