{{Short description|Chilean politician and architect}} {{family name hatnote|Kast|Sommerhoff|lang=Chilean}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Pablo Kast | image = 200px | caption = Official portrait, 2018 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1973|8|24}} | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | office = Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile | constituency = District 6 | term_start = 11 March 2018 | term_end = 11 March 2022 | predecessor = ''District established'' | successor = | party = Evópoli (2012–present) | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (BA)}} | occupation = Politician | profession = Architect | parents = Miguel Kast<br/>Cecilia Sommerhoff | spouse = Juana Edwards Urrejola | children = 4 | relatives = José Antonio Kast (uncle)<br/>José Antonio Kast Adriasola (cousin)<br/>Felipe and Tomás Kast (brothers)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.evopoli.cl/kast-competencia-hermano-diputado-ex-presidenciable-evopoli-busca-llegar-al-congreso/|title=Otro Kast en competencia: Hermano de diputado y ex presidenciable de Evópoli busca llegar al Congreso|date=11 October 2017|accessdate=4 May 2021|publisher=Emol|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/reportajes/noticia/kast-guerra-kast/660913/|title=Kast en guerra con Kast|date=11 October 2017|accessdate=4 August 2021|publisher=La Tercera|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/la-tercera-pm/noticia/la-complejidad-llamarse-kast-piensan-los-sobrinos-del-discurso-jose-antonio/109966/|title=La complejidad de llamarse Kast: Qué piensan los sobrinos del discurso de José Antonio|date=23 March 2018|accessdate=4 August 2021|publisher=La Tercera|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://interferencia.cl/articulos/el-origen-del-clan-de-los-kast-en-chile|title=El origen del clan de los Kast en Chile|first1=Manuel|last1=Salazar Salvo|date=23 March 2018|accessdate=4 August 2021|publisher=La Tercera|language=es}}</ref><br/>Michael Kast (grandfather) <br/>Javier Etcheberry (stepfather)<br>Robert Schumann (great-great-great-grandfather)<br>Clara Schumann (great-great-great-grandmother)<br>Elizabeth Subercaseaux (cousin once removed)<br>Gerd Sommerhoff (grand-uncle) | footnotes = }}
'''Pablo Andrés Kast Sommerhoff''' (born 24 August 1973) is a Chilean architect and politician.
He is the son of economist Miguel Kast, who migrated from Germany to Chile as a child with his German father Michael Kast.<ref>{{Cite web|last=PIlleux Cepeda|first=Mauricio|date=2020-01-16|title=Kast|url=https://www.genealog.cl/Alemanes/K.html#KAST|access-date=2021-11-18|website=Genealog|language=es}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Pablo Andrés Kast Sommerhoff was born on August 24, 1973, in Chicago, United States. He is the son of Miguel Kast Rist, who served as Minister of ODEPLAN (1978), Minister of Labor (1980), and President of the Central Bank of Chile (1982) during the military regime of Augusto Pinochet, and Cecilia Sommerhoff.<ref name="bcn">{{cite web |title=Pablo Andrés Kast Sommerhoff |url=https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Pablo_Andrés_Kast_Sommerhoff |access-date=10 February 2026 |website=Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile |language=es}}</ref>
He is the brother of Senator Felipe Kast, Deputy Tomás Kast, and Bárbara Kast Sommerhoff, former city councilor of Paine (2012–2021). He is also the nephew of former deputy and former presidential candidate José Antonio Kast. He is the stepson of Javier Etcheberry, former Minister of Public Works, Transport and Telecommunications (2002–2004).<ref name="bcn" />
He is married to Juana Edwards Urrejola and is the father of four children.<ref name="bcn" />
Kast completed his primary and secondary education at Colegio Verbo Divino in Santiago. He later earned a degree in Architecture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.<ref name="bcn" />
Between 2010 and 2011, he completed a diploma in Finance at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.<ref name="bcn" />
== Professional career == Between 2004 and 2010, Kast worked at an industrial real estate development company, where he designed commercial centers for small entrepreneurs in several Chilean cities, including Arica, Iquique, La Serena, Los Andes, Talca, Valdivia, and Punta Arenas, as well as in Buenos Aires and Mendoza in Argentina.<ref name="bcn" />
He is the promoter of the eco-residential project ''El Pangue'' in Puerto Varas, Los Lagos Region.<ref name="bcn" />
== Political career == Kast’s political and public activity has been linked to the Fundación Miguel Kast, through which he has promoted initiatives such as the Institute for Social Innovation.<ref name="bcn" />
In 2017, he joined the political project of the Political Evolution Party (Evópoli), running as an independent candidate within the party’s list for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies of Chile representing the 6th electoral district of the Valparaíso Region. He was elected after obtaining 28,465 votes, equivalent to 8.96% of the total valid votes.<ref name="bcn" />
In the internal elections of Evópoli held on August 15 and 16, 2020, he was elected Vice President of the party for the 2020–2022 term.<ref name="bcn" />
For the parliamentary elections held on November 21, 2021, Kast sought re-election as a candidate of Evópoli within the Chile Podemos Más coalition, this time representing the 10th electoral district of the Santiago Metropolitan Region. He obtained 15,666 votes, equivalent to 3.43% of the total valid votes, and was not re-elected.<ref name="bcn" />
== Other activities == Kast serves as director of the Institute for Social Innovation, which emerged from an alliance between the University of Development and the Fundación Felipe Kast, created in 2006 and later chaired by him.<ref name="bcn" />
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==External links== * [https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Pablo_Andr%C3%A9s_Kast_Sommerhoff BCN Profile]
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