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CIEPLAN Celebrates 40th Anniversary
CIEPLAN, one of Chile’s (and Latin America’s) leading think tanks, celebrated its 40th anniversary on November 7th in Santiago
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Puryear previously served as the head of the Ford Foundation’s regional office for the Andes and the Southern Cone, and as a research scholar at New York University and at Stanford University.
Puryear received his PhD in comparative education from the University of Chicago and has authored numerous articles on inter-American affairs. His book on intellectuals and democracy in Chile was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
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