My Career is in Gear

MAURICIO RAUL HUMBERTO OLAVARRIA GAMBI

Mauricio Olavarría Gambi, University of Santiago de Chile professor, Ph.D. in Public Policies of the Maryland University at Collage Park, USA, Master in Internacional Studies of the University of Chile, Graduate in the Sciences of Developing of the ILADES and Public Administrator of the University of Chile.

He has been in charge of several directive offices at universities, and has been a consultant to the World Bank, American Development Bank and the Pan American Health Organization.

His investigations, works and teaching work is concentrated on public policies, poverty, inequity, and criminality. He is also the author of five books and 20 papers published in international indexed academic journals.

Of his contributions, his most significant investigations are:

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       2008-2009   DICYT    Poverty, Inequity and Politics. Domeyko Program. University of Chile.

-          2008    CONACE Ministry of the Interior.    Nacional study of economical, social and human costs of drugs in Chile, during 2006

I took knowledge of him alter reading some of his works when I made a research while I was at my first year at university. Later, one of my teachers mentioned he worked at the University as the guide professor of doctoral thesises, and a member of thesis commitees.