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Biography
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Chilean physician and politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018. A member of the Socialist Party, she was the first woman to be elected president of Chile and the first woman to serve as Chile's minister of health and minister of national defense.
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Awards & recognition
- BBC 100 Women · 2017
- Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty · 2017
- Royal Order of the Seraphim · 2016
- honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven · 2015
- Collar of the Order of Charles III · 2014
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- Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia · 2012
- honorary doctorate from Columbia University · 2012
- Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic · 2010
- honorary doctor of the National University of Córdoba · 2010
- honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University · 2010
- honorary doctorate · 2010
- honorary doctorate of Pompeu Fabra University · 2010
- honorary doctorate of the International University Menendez Pelayo · 2010
- honorary doctorate of University of Burgundy · 2010
- National Order of San Lorenzo · 2010
- Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ · 2009
- Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion · 2009
- Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil) · 2008
- Grand Cross with collar of the Order of Vytautas the Great · 2008
- honorary doctor of the University of Essex · 2008
- Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle · 2007
- Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry · 2007
- Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland · 2007
- honorary doctorate · 2007
- Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic · 2007
- Order of the Liberator · 2007
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour · 2006
- honorary doctor of the University of Brasília · 2006
- Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay · 2006
- Order of Bernardo O'Higgins · 2006
- Order of Merit · 2006
- Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic · 2004
- DAAD Scholarship · 1978
- honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
