Chile's Education Reform 

Informal Luncheon

Friday March 29th, 2019

12:30- 1:00 Informal Luncheon

1:00- 2:00 Presentation and Q&A 

  Greenberg Traurig LLP

MetLife Building

200 Park Avenue 

Conference Room 15 ABC

New York, NY 10166

Christopher Neilson

Christopher Neilson is an Assistant Professor at Princeton University, where he has a joint appointment at the Economics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Mr. Neilson is a member of the Industrial Relations Section and Education Research Section at Princeton University and a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research Industrial Organization and Education programs as well as an affiliate of the J-PAL Network. Professor Nielson research focuses on the study of education markets, designing and evaluating public policies using a mix of experimental methods together with the estimation of structural microeconomic models of firm and consumer behavior. He holds a Bachelor and Master degrees in Economics from Universidad de Chile and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.

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Patricio Navia

Clinical (Full) Professor of Liberal Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Navia is also a Professor of Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. Ph.D. in Politics from New York University, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Political Sciences and Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, New School University, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad de Chile and NYU Buenos Aires, and a visiting fellow at the University of Miami. He has published scholarly articles and book chapters on democratization, electoral rules and democratic institutions in Latin America. As founding director of Observatorio Electoral at Universidad Diego Portales, he has co-edited Democracia Municipal (2012), El sismo electoral de 2009. Cambio y continuidad en las preferencias políticas de los chilenos (2010) and El genoma electoral chileno. Dibujando el mapa genético de las preferencias políticas en Chile (2009). His books Diccionario de la política chilena (with Alfredo Joignant and Francisco Javier Díaz), El díscolo. Conversaciones con Marco Enríquez-Ominami (2009), Que gane el más mejor: Mérito y Competencia en el Chile de hoy (with Eduardo Engel, 2006) and Las grandes alamedas: El Chile post Pinochet (2004) have been best sellers in Chile. He is a columnist in El Líbero in Chile, Buenos Aires Herald, and Infolatam.com. He has previously penned columns for La Tercera, Capital and Poder magazines in Chile, Perfil in Argentina. 

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HUMAN RIGHTS IN TROUBLED TIMES

Wednesday March 6th, 2019

Hogan Lovells 

875 Third Avenue

New York, NY 10022

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5:30 pm: Registration and Networking

6:00 - 7:00 pm: Presentation and Q&A.

JORGE CONTESSE

Jorge Contesse is a scholar of international human rights and comparative constitutional law at Rutgers University, where he focuses on the judicialization of international law and on the interaction between domestic constitutional actors and international human rights regimes, in particular, the Inter-American human rights system.  Before joining Rutgers, professor Contesse was a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Schell Center for International Human Rights and served as a board member for Chile’s National Human Rights Institute.

He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Miami, University of Texas and Fordham University. He has litigated and acted as expert witness in cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on issues regarding sexual orientation, the use of anti-terrorist laws, freedom of expression and the rights of indigenous peoples, and has appeared before United Nations bodies such as the Committee Against Torture and the Committee on Racial Discrimination.

His work has appeared or is forthcoming in leading law journals, such as the Harvard International Law Journal, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the International Journal of Human Rights, Law & Contemporary Problems, and the Yale Journal of International Law, among others. He holds an LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School and an LL.B. from Diego Portales Law School (Santiago, Chile) where he was Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Center, and is currently a Permanent Visiting Professor

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Wednesday Feb 27, 2019

12:30- 2:00PM

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, LLP

450 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10022

Speakers

María Victoria Murillo

Patricio Navia 

Alejandro Velasco

María Victoria Murillo 's research on distributive politics in Latin America has covered labor politics and labor regulations, public utility reform, education reform, and economic policy more generally. Her work on political parties analyzes both their coalitional and policy implications as well as their linkages with voters in new democracies. Her empirical work is based on a variety of methods ranging from quantitative analysis of datasets built for all Latin American countries to qualitative field work in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela and survey and experiments in Argentina and Chile. She is also the co-editor of Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005); Carreras Magisteriales, Desempeño Educativo y Sindicatos de Maestros en América Latina (Flacso-Argentina, 2003); and Discutir Alfonsín  (Siglo XXI-Argentina, 2010).

Patricio Navia is a Clinical Professor of Liberal Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Mr. Navia is also a Professor of Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. Ph.D. in Politics from New York University, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Political Sciences and Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, New School University, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad de Chenos Aires, and a visiting fellow at the University of Miami. He has published scholarly articles and book chapters on democratization, electoral rules and democratic institutions in Latin America. As founding director of Observatorio Electoral at Universidad Diego Portales, he has co-edited Democracia Municipal (2012), El sismo electoral de 2009. Cambio y continuidad en las preferencias políticas de los chilenos (2010) and El genoma electoral chileno. Dibujando el mapa genético de las preferencias políticas en Chile (2009). 

Alejandro Velasco is a historian of modern Latin America whose research and teaching interests are in the areas of social movements, urban culture and democratization. His book, Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela  (University of California Press, 2015), couples archival and ethnographic research to examine how residents of Venezuela’s largest public housing community pursued full citizenship during the heyday of Latin America’s once-model democracy. Before joining the Gallatin faculty, Professor Velasco taught at Hampshire College, where he was a Five College Fellow, and at Duke University. His teaching record includes interdisciplinary courses on contemporary Latin America, including seminars on human rights, cultural studies, and urban social movements; historical methods courses on 20th-century revolutions; graduate history courses on urban political history and workshops with primary and secondary school educators.

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CHILE'S SOVEREIGN CREDIT OUTLOOK IN 2019

Informal Luncheon,

Thursday January 31th, 2019

12:30- 3:00PM

 Shearman Sterling LLP 

599 Lexington Avenue

Conference Room 2E

New York, NY 10022

ARIANE ORTIZ-BOLLIN

Ariane Ortiz-Bollin is an Assistant Vice President-Analyst in the Sovereign Risk Group at Moody’s Investors Service. She serves as lead analyst on Chile, the International Finance Corporation and other credits in the Latin America region, leading the internal rating committee discussions, country and region specific publications, and meetings with government officials. She also contributes to the Sovereign Risk Group efforts to assess Environmental, Social and Governance risks, particularly related to climate change.

Before joining Moody’s in 2011, Ariane was a research analyst at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, conducting research on a range of macroeconomic, monetary policy, and financial regulation topics. Her prior experience includes corporate credit analysis in Citigroup-Banamex in Monterrey, Mexico, covering the corporate sector in the north of Mexico.

Ariane graduated with Honors in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and has a Master in Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.

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