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PODER Speakers are POLICY MAKERS, PRIME MINISTERS, RAINMAKERS,INNOVATORS, LATIN AMERICA, INMIGRATION, REVOLUTIONARIES, OPINION MAKERS, BUSINESS, ICONS, PHILANTROPIST, EDUCATORS, AMBASSADORS, POLITICIANS, MEDIA TYCOONS, HEADSOF STATE, TECHNOLOGY
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President Ricardo Lagos |
Ricardo Lagos is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who
served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006 . He won the 1999-2000
presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent
Democrat Union (UDI) candidate Joaquin Lavin. He is the third president from
the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy that has ruled Chile
since 1990 . He was succeeded on March 11 2006 by Socialist Michelle
Bachelet, from the same coalition. Since May 2007 he has served as a Special
Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon. |
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