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Former president of Chile is appointed professor at Brown
01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, May 19, 2007
PROVIDENCE (AP) — Former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos has been appointed a professor-at-large at Brown University, the school said yesterday. The former Socialist Party leader begins a five-year term July 1 at Brown’s Watson Institute for International Studies.
Lagos ruled for six years until last year, when he was succeeded by fellow Socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s first female president. When he won election in 2000, he became Chile’s first Socialist president since Salvador Allende, whose government was toppled in a bloody 1973 coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
Lagos received his law degree at the University of Chile in 1960 and a Ph.D. in economics at Duke University in 1966. During his time at Brown, Lagos will deliver lectures and work with students.
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