Mario Radrigán R.

Mario Radrigán R. (1961): Social anthropologist, University of Chile, Magister in Direction of Human Resources, University of Santiago of Chile. Doctor in Applied Economics of the University of Valencia, Spain. Assistant professor of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Chile. Beating Strategies Project director of Poverty, Participation and Local Development. Foundation Ford- Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Chile (1992-95); Academic Director of the Interdisciplinary of Associative Studies Program (1998-2005). Asociate professor of the Management and Economy Faculty of the University of Santiago de Chile, and Director of the International Center of Cooperatives and Social Economy, CIESCOOP. He has worked as Secretary General of the Corporation of Education and Health of the La Florida city Hall (1997-2000); as the Leader of the Project of Labor Reintegration of SENCE financed by the BID-FOMIN (1995-1997) and as Sub-Coordinator of the ChileCalifica program in its design phase, financed by the World Bank. He has been an evaluator of SERCOTEC’s micro-business programs, in the framework of the Governmental Projects Evaluation Program (2000).