Carlos Ominami Pascual is a research associate at IRIS, and a former Chilean Minister of the Economy.

Between 1978 and 1984 he was a researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. In 1984, he joined the Latin American International Relations Programme (RIAL) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) in Chile, then the Latin American Centre for International Economics and Politics (CLEPI).

He was Minister of the Economy in the Patricio Aylwin government between 1990 and 1992 and a Senator of the Republic of Chile from 1994 to 2010.

He is the author of several books and numerous articles in Spanish, French, English and Japanese.

Carlos Ominami holds a degree in commercial engineering from the University of Chile and a doctorate in economics from the University of Paris X Nanterre.

Carlos Ominami Pascual was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 2011.