{{Short description|Chilean economist, academic and political activist}} {{Multiple issues|{{Expand Spanish|topic=bio|Marcel Claude|date=May 2013}} {{update|date=July 2016}}}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Marcel Claude |image = Marcel Claude en Morandé 80.jpg |alt = |caption = Claude in 2013 |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|02|26|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]], [[Chile]] |death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> |death_place = |birth_name = Marcel Henri Claude Reyes |party = Independent <br /> Pro-[[Humanist Party (Chile)|Humanist Party]] (2013&ndash;)<br />[[Party for Democracy (Chile)|Party for Democracy]] (1990&ndash;95)<br />[[Christian Democrat Party of Chile|Christian Democrat Youth of Chile]] (until 1973)<ref name=pdc>{{cite web|url=http://www.revistasomos.cl/2013/04/marcel-claude-candidato-a-presidente-es-tiempo-de-cambiar-el-curso-de-la-historia/|title=Marcel Claude, candidato a Presidente: "Es tiempo de cambiar el curso de la historia"|work=Somos|date=10 April 2013|accessdate=2013-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027232543/http://www.revistasomos.cl/2013/04/marcel-claude-candidato-a-presidente-es-tiempo-de-cambiar-el-curso-de-la-historia/|archive-date=27 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> |partner = |relations = |children = |parents = |alma_mater = [[University of Chile]] |occupation = [[Business engineering|Economist]], [[academician]], [[politician]] |known_for = Candidate for President of Chile (2014&ndash;18) |signature = Firma de Marcel Claude.png |signature_alt = |website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20130602001952/http://todosalamoneda.cl/ todosalamoneda.cl] |footnotes = }} '''Marcel Henri Claude Reyes''' (born in [[Santiago, Chile]] on 26 February 1957) is a [[Chile]]an economist, academic, and political activist. He was an [[independent (politician)|independent]] candidate to become [[President of Chile]] in the [[2013 Chilean presidential election]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.latercera.com/noticia/negocios/2013/01/655-505931-9-economista-marcel-claude-lanza-su-candidatura-presidencial.shtml |title=Economista Marcel Claude lanza su candidatura presidencial &#124; Negocios |publisher=La Tercera |date=2013-01-26 |accessdate=2013-04-04 |last1=Copesa |first1=Grupo |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111416/http://www.latercera.com/noticia/negocios/2013/01/655-505931-9-economista-marcel-claude-lanza-su-candidatura-presidencial.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was endorsed by the [[Humanist Party (Chile)|Humanist Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nacional.biobiochile.cl/notas/2013/03/12/partido-humanista-proclama-a-economista-marcel-claude-como-candidato-presidencial.shtml |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130410034954/http://nacional.biobiochile.cl/notas/2013/03/12/partido-humanista-proclama-a-economista-marcel-claude-como-candidato-presidencial.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-04-10 |title=Partido Humanista proclama a economista Marcel Claude como candidato presidencial - Nacional - BioBioChile |publisher=Nacional.biobiochile.cl |accessdate=2013-04-04 }}</ref>

Previously, Claude worked at the [[Central Bank of Chile]] between 1983 and 1995, and later directed two Chilean environmental [[NGO]]s.

==Early life== Claude was born on 26 February 1957 in [[Santiago de Chile]] to Rolande Hugo Claude Dellepiane, a native of [[Concepción, Chile|Concepción]], and Leyla del Carmen Reyes Maluje.<ref name="Civil e Identificación 1145">Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación, Inscripción n°1145, año 1986, Circunscripción: Las Condes</ref>

In 1975, he enrolled in the [[University of Chile]], and graduated in 1982 with a degree in [[economics]]. After that, he got an educational scholarship at the [[Louvain Catholic University|Université catholique de Louvain]], [[Belgium]], in 1986 and got a degree in Master of Arts in 1987. At the same university, he was a candidate for a Doctorate in Economy Science.

On 25 July 1986, he married Oriella Celsi Tasso.<ref name="Civil e Identificación 1145"/>

==Professional career==

===Central Bank of Chile=== Claude started his career at the [[Central Bank of Chile]] in 1983. He served as an economic analyst and wrote reports regarding external debt and possible solutions to this problem, among other themes. He wrote a seminal report on the state of external debt in [[Latin America]], among others. During this period he was a professor of economic development at the [[Catholic University of Valparaíso]].

===Environmentalist NGOs=== In 1997, after completing his work at the Central Bank, Claude created the [[Fundación Terram|Terram Foundation]], whose objective was to promote [[sustainable development]] in Chile.

In April 2003, he became the executive director of the Office for South America and Antarctica of [[Oceana (non-profit group)|Oceana]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Cranor|first=Dustin|title=John O'Leary visits Oceana in Chile|url=http://oceana.org/es/news-media/press-center/press-releases/john-o-leary-visits-oceana-in-chile|publisher=Oceana|accessdate=22 May 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130704105311/http://oceana.org/es/news-media/press-center/press-releases/john-o-leary-visits-oceana-in-chile|archivedate=4 July 2013}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20130602001952/http://todosalamoneda.cl/ Official campaign web site], in [[Spanish language|Spanish]]. *[http://www.terram.cl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=236 Terram Foundation website] in [[English language|English]] * {{cite book|author=Marcel Claude|title=Una vez más la miseria: es Chile un país sustentable?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AlmnQgS0rkIC|year=1997|publisher=Lom Ediciones|isbn=978-956-282-025-7}}

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