About Michelle Bachelet
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Chilean politician who served as the 33rd and 35th president of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018. She is the first and to date only woman to hold the presidency. She was re-elected in December 2013 with over 62% of the vote, having previously received 54% in 2006, making her the first president of Chile to be re-elected since 1932. After her second term, she served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. Earlier in her career, she was appointed as the first executive director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.
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Awards & Honors
honorary doctor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
honorary doctorate from Columbia University
Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle
honorary doctorate of Pompeu Fabra University
honorary doctorate of the International University Menendez Pelayo
Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ
Grand Collar of the Order of Liberty
honorary doctor of the National University of Córdoba
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honorary doctor of the University of Brasília
Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
honorary doctor of the University of Essex
honorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
honorary doctorate of University of Burgundy
Order of Merit
Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil)
DAAD Scholarship
Royal Order of the Seraphim
Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion
Order of Bernardo O'Higgins
Order of the Liberator
National Order of San Lorenzo
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
honorary doctorate
Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia
BBC 100 Women
Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry
Collar of the Order of Charles III
Grand Cross with collar of the Order of Vytautas the Great
Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
