José Miguel Salazar Zegers

Lawyer from Universidad Diego Portales and Doctor of Education from the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne (Australia). He also studied higher education at Pennsylvania State University (United States) and aesthetics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

He has more than 25 years of experience in higher education policy, regulation and quality assurance in Chile. From 2023 to 2026 he was Superintendent of Higher Education, a position he reached through the Senior Public Management System. He was previously Academic Vice-Rector of the Universidad de Valparaíso (2013-2019), a member of the Ministry of Education’s Expert Panel on Tuition Fee Regulation (2019-2022) and Executive Secretary of the Higher Education Council, today the National Education Council (2003-2009), where he had earlier headed the Legal Department. He also chaired the Committee of Academic Vice-Rectors of the Council of Rectors (2015-2017).

In academia, he has been an associate researcher and line leader in two ANID Millennium Nuclei devoted to the student experience in higher education, directed the FONDECYT project «Policies for university quality in Chile» and was deputy director of the CRUCH National Student Engagement Survey.

He is the author of numerous articles in journals such as Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, Quality in Higher Education and Education Policy Analysis Archives, on higher education coordination and policy, quality, student engagement and regional universities. He is currently a researcher at the Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación Educativa (IESED-Chile).