Centro de Estudios Públicos

Centro de Estudios Públicos (Center of Public Studies) is a Chilean think tank.

CEP is based in Santiago and was founded in 1980.

Eliodoro Matte Larraín, the billionaire president of the Chilean forestry and paper company CMPC, is chairman of CEP.[1] The president is Harald Beyer, the Minister of Education of Chile from 2011 to 2013 until his impeachment for failing to address illegal for-profit activity in universities.[2][3]

Notable speakers

Lectures have been given by people including Mario Vargas Llosa, Hernando de Soto, Michael Novak, Robert Lucas, Eric Donald Hirsch, Eric Anderson, Friedrich Hayek, Margaret Thatcher, Václav Klaus, Peter Berger, Salman Rushdie and Milton Friedman.[4]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Eliodoro Matte Larraín". cecs. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  2. "Harald Beyer Burgos" (in Spanish). Ministro de Educación – Gobierno de Chile. Archived from the original on 17 April 2013. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  3. "Senado aprueba acusación constitucional y Beyer es destituido - Política - 24horas". web.archive.org. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  4. "About CEP". CEP. Retrieved 23 October 2015.

External links

Official website

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