Date:
Location:
Speaker: Felipe Kast, Senator of Chile for the period 2018-2026. Former Minister of Social Development and 2017 Presidential Candidate.
About the Talk: One of the puzzles of modern democracy is populism. Why, despite its multiple failures, again and again populism reincarnates, with huge costs for citizenship. Today Venezuela suffers from populism in its worst expression, but there are many other countries that suffer from the same phenomenon. In this presentation I make a brief description about the tricks used by modern populism, and gave some ideas to fight it.
About Felipe Kast: Felipe Kast is a Senator, and during 2017 he was Presidential candidate in Chile. Felipe was trained as economist in Chile, studied Marxism at the University of Havana, and he obtained his PhD at Harvard University. After graduation he worked at the Poverty Action Lab, opening the office for Latin America. Later he was appointed Minister of Social Development, and Presidential Delegate for Reconstruction after the Earthquake on February 27, 2010. In 2012 he founded "Evópoli", a new political party that seeks to put children, and the childhood agenda, as the first national priority.
Space is limited. Please come in early to secure a seat.