Paz Anastasiadis
Paz Alexandra Anastasiadis Le Roy (born 9 January 1983) is a Chilean lawyer, academic, and politician, member of the Expert Commission created to draft a preliminary constitutional text during the 2023 Chilean constitutional process.
Biography
She was born in Santiago in 1983, the daughter of Hermes Gregorio Anastasiadis Baldassare, of Greek descent, and Jimena María Le Roy Barría. She is the sister of Zoy, Nicolás and Sofía.
She completed her primary and secondary education at Colegio Sagrado Corazón de Reñaca, Viña del Mar, graduating in 2000. She studied law at Adolfo Ibáñez University, Viña del Mar campus, obtaining her degree in 2008, and was admitted to the Chilean Bar in 2009.
She holds a master of laws (LL.M) in Legal Culture from the University of Girona (2023). She also completed diplomas in the Penitentiary System and Human Rights at the University of Chile (2009), and in Decentralization and Local Development at the Alberto Hurtado University (2012). In 2013 she attended seminars of the PhD program in Constitutional law at the University of Buenos Aires.
Her professional career has included work in the public sector and the National Congress of Chile. She served as legal advisor for the Municipality of El Quisco (2010) and the law firm Infante Valenzuela Molina y Compañía SpA (2010–2012). A member of the Christian Democratic Party, she was an advisor to former senator Patricio Walker (2012–2014).
Between 2014 and 2018 she was the regional ministerial secretary of Justice and Human Rights in the Valparaíso Region. Since then, she has worked as legislative advisor to the Chamber of Deputies' Christian Democratic caucus. She has also taught the course on Political law at the University of the Americas.
In 2021 she ran as a candidate for the 2021 Chilean Constitutional Convention election in District 7, obtaining 1.8% of the vote, but was not elected.
On 24 January 2023, she was appointed by the Chamber of Deputies of Chile as a member of the Expert Commission, established by Law No. 21.533, responsible for preparing a draft for a new Constitution to be presented to the Constitutional Council. In the commission, she joined the Subcommission on Jurisdictional Function and Autonomous Bodies.