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Ernesto Schiefelbein (Chile) President of Santo Tomás University, Chile. Qualified in 1970 as Ed.D. in educational administration at Harvard University.
Formerly Director of UNESCO’s Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (OREALC) and Minister of Education
for Chile. Between 1984 and 1987, worked as an educational planner at the World Bank, Washington DC, and was visiting professor
at Harvard University. Has published numerous articles and books, of which the most recent are:The state of education in Latin America and the Caribbean (1992) andImproving the quality of education in Latin America (1993).
I would like to acknowledge comments and suggestions on the draft of this document by: P. Cariola, H. Martinez, J.C. Tedesco,
J. Hallak, N. McGinn, B. McMeekin and H. Fritzsche.