Nivia Palma

Nivia Palma
Official portrait (2017)
Minister of National Assets
In office
19 October 2016  11 March 2018
PresidentMichelle Bachelet
Preceded byVíctor Osorio
Succeeded byFelipe Ward
Personal details
Born (1959-12-18) 18 December 1959
Santiago, Chile
Political partySocialist Party
SpouseSergio Aguiló
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionEconomist

Nivia Palma Manríquez (born 18 December 1959) is a Chilean politician and lawyer who served as minister of national assets. She is known for having a critical opinion to the Concertación, a centre-leftist coalition which governed during 20 years.

Palma worked as a lawyer specializing in labor law, being a trade union advisor and CEO of the non-governmental organization OFASAN (North Zone Trade Union Advisory Office). She has also been a professor in the PgD of Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Cultural Administration, and she also taught in the University of Chile, specifically in its master's degree in cultural management.

In 2021, Palma worked as Paula Narváez's chief of campaign in the 2021 presidential primaries, in which she lost against the christian-democrat Yasna Provoste.