Carolina Tohá presides over the Fundación Instituto Ciudad (City Institute Foundation), of which Carolina is the founding member, a recently formed civil society organization dedicated to the promotion of urban policies centered on people and emphasizing equality and sustainability.

From 2012 to 2016, she served as the Mayor of Santiago, Chile. During her term, she actively encouraged policies in favor of a sustainable transit system, prioritizing public transport, pedestrian, and cycling schemes. These policies, together with a series of other interventions like the Central Plan, the cycle path network, and the publicly accessible bicycles, led to the Sustainable Comprehensive Mobility Policy, which won the 2017 Sustainable Transport Award. Tohá also acted as Co-Chair of the High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport, convened by the former United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.

Before becoming mayor, she worked as Minister of the Government’s General Secretariat under Michelle Bachelet’s first government (2009), as a Member of Parliament from 2002 to 2009, as the Government’s General Under-Secretary during Ricardo Lagos’s government (2000-2001), and as President of the Partido por la Democracia (PPD) from 2010 to 2012. She has a Bachelor’s from Milan’s Università degli Studi and a Law degree from the University of Chile.

Former Minister of the Interior and Public Security of Chile.