Eduardo Figueroa Geisse (12 February 1916 – 2 December 2000) was a Chilean engineer, economist, businessman, and consultant.
He served as Minister of Finance under President Jorge Alessandri and as president of the Central Bank of his country for a two-year period between 1959 and 1961.
Family and education His parents were Héctor Figueroa Vial and Ema Geisse. He married Teresa Orrego Lyon.Biografías de chilenos: miembros de los poderes Ejecutivo, Legislativo y Judicial (1876–1973), Armando de Ramón et al., Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, 2003, Vol. II, p. 97.
He studied at the Andrés Bello Institute in Santiago and later pursued civil engineering at the University of Chile, qualifying as an engineer in 1940.
Public service After graduating, Figueroa joined the state-owned Corporation for the Promotion of Production (CORFO), where he led the project that enabled the implementation of the San Vicente steel plant of the Pacific Steel Company (CAP). He later became general manager of that unit.
In 1959, he was appointed president of the Central Bank of Chile by President Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez, a position he held until 1961.Banco Central de Chile, archived website. During the same presidential administration, he also served for slightly over one year as Minister of Finance.El Mercurio (Santiago), 10 October 1999, p. B1.Anales de la República, Luis Valencia Avaria, Editorial Andrés Bello, p. 650.
Other activities He served as Chile's governor to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He was also a member of the Institute of Engineers of Chile.
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