Senior Fellow at the Inter-American Dialogue, Washington (leading a Project on Global Trends and the Future of Latin America), President of Fundación Por la Democracia and President and founder of Corporación Museo del Salitre. He served as Minister of Mining (1973, president Allende), Minister of Education (2003-2005, president Lagos) and Minister of Public Works (2008-2010, president Bachelet). He was also Senator (1994-2002) and President of the Party Pro Democracy (PPD) (1992-94, 1997-2000, 2006-2008). The PPD is a member of the Concertación, the political coalition that governed in Chile in the period 1990-2010. He held the position of Coordinator for Michelle Bachelet´s presidential campaign (Dec. 2005-Jan. 2006). He graduated from the University of Chile, the Centre d’Etudes de Programmes Economiques, Paris and from Harvard University.
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