Laura Chinchilla

Laura Chinchilla
Laura Chinchilla
	Official portrait, c. 2010
46th President of Costa Rica
	In office; 8 May 2010 – 8 May 2014
Vice President	First Vice President; Alfio Piva; Second Vice President; Luis Liberman;
Preceded by	Óscar Arias
Succeeded by	Luis Guillermo Solís
15th First-Vice President of Costa Rica
	In office; 8 May 2006 – 8 October 2008
President	Óscar Arias
Preceded by	Lineth Saborío Chaverri
Succeeded by	Alfio Piva (2010)
Preceded by
Additional offices
President pro tempore of CELAC
	In office; 28 January 2014 – 8 May 2014
Preceded by	Raúl Castro
Succeeded by	Luis Guillermo Solís
Minister of Justice and Grace
	In office; 8 May 2006 – 8 October 2008
President	Óscar Arias
Preceded by	Patricia Vega Herrera
Succeeded by	Viviana Martín Salazar
Minister of Public Security
	In office; 30 March 2008 – 14 April 2008
President	Óscar Arias
Preceded by	Fernando Berrocal Soto
Succeeded by	Janina del Vecchio Ugalde
	In office; 12 November 1996 – 8 May 1998
President	José María Figueres
Preceded by	Bernardo Arce Gutiérrez
Succeeded by	Juan Rafael Lizano Sáenz
Vice Minister of Public Security
	In office; 8 May 1994 – 12 November 1996
President	José María Figueres
Succeeded by	Óscar Albán Chipsen
Deputy of the Legislative Assembly
	In office; 1 May 2002 – 30 April 2006
Preceded by	Guido Monge Fernández
Succeeded by	Evita Arguedas Maklouf
Constituency	San José (13th Office)
Personal details
Born	Laura Chinchilla Miranda; 28 March 1959; San José, Costa Rica
Party	National Liberation Party (until 2022); Independent (2022-present)
Spouses	Mario Alberto Madrigal Díaz (m. 1982; div. 1985); José María Rico (m. 2000; died 2019);
Children	1
Education	University of Costa Rica; Georgetown University;
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Laura Chinchilla Miranda (Spanish: [ˈlawɾa tʃinˈtʃiʝa miˈɾanda]; born 28 March 1959) is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's two Vice-Presidents and his administration's Minister of Justice. She was the governing PLN candidate for president in the 2010 general election, where she won with 46.76% of the vote on 7 February. She was the eighth woman president of a Latin American country and the first woman to become President of Costa Rica. She was sworn in as President of Costa Rica on 8 May 2010.

After leaving office, she taught at Georgetown University in 2016. Chinchilla is co-chair of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank and the vice-president of Club de Madrid. Chinchilla previously served as a Fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service.