| Alfonso Dulanto Rencoret | |
| Birth Date: | 1943 12, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Vina del Mar, Chile |
| Office: | Minister of Mining |
| President: | Ricardo Lagos |
| Term Start: | 7 January 2002 |
| Term End: | 11 March 2006 |
| Predecessor: | Jorge Rodríguez Grossi |
| Successor: | Karen Poniachik |
| Office1: | Intendant of the Antofagasta Region |
| President1: | Ricardo Lagos |
| Term Start1: | 11 March 2000 |
| Term End1: | 5 March 2003 |
| Predecessor1: | César Castillo Lilayu |
| Successor1: | Jorge Molina Carrasco |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Profession: | Civil Engineer |
| Spouse: | Carolina Torres Pascal |
| Children: | Five |
José Alfonso Dulanto Rencoret (born 4 December 1943) is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who served as minister during Ricardo Lagos' government (2000−2006).[1] [2]
Dulanto completed his primary and secondary studies at Saint George's College in Las Condes, an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Santiago, the capital of Chile. Later, he studied civil engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), graduating in 1969.
Once he graduated, and thanks to a scholarship from the British Council, Dulanto lived in London, England for two years.
Dulanto started working in mining in 1972 when he joined the state-owned Codelco. He then carried out some business projects related to the field, starting in 1980, in partnership with Alejandro Noemi –executive president of Codelco in the '90s–.
In 1995, Dulanto and the Callejas family - partners in Refimet - sold the Altonorte smelter to Noranda.
Independent pro-Christian Democracy (DC), in the Government of Ricardo Lagos, he was appointed mayor of the main mining region of Chile: Antofagasta (2000). Dulanto was evaluated as one of the best intendants of the government, so he was appointed as Ministry of Mining in 2002.
The most important events of his administration were the approval of a specific tax project –after an initial failure in the form of royalty– and a higher collection for copper, which reached historical price levels.
While he was a minister, he delegated his personal activities to his brother José Pablo. After his departure, together began to operate smaller copper and gold mines in the Coquimbo Region. The former Secretary of State also has an agricultural business, producing blueberries and cherries in Chillán for export to China and the United States, respectively.
He is married to Carolina Torres Pascal, his second wife. He has five daughters.