Policy in Practice

A talk on drug policy and debate around legalization by guest speaker Eduardo VERGARA, founding director of Asuntos del Sur.

 

He specializes in drug policy, issues of drug-trafficking and human rights. He is also the founder of the Latin American Observatory on Drug Policy and Public Opinion, a regional barometer on 10 Latin American countries. He participates in permanent working commissions at the Observatory on Organized Crime for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Inter-American Dialogue. He studied Political Science at the University of Portland (BA) and California State University (M.A.). He then graduated from the Master of Public Affairs at Sciences Po with a concentration in Human Security where he received the Eiffel excellence scholarship. Eduardo has also pursued advanced study on Drug Policy and Human Rights at the CEU in Budapest, Hungary.

He was selected as part of the Next Generation of Leaders for the Americas by the Council of the Americas and American Quarterly in 2010.  

He is a columnist in various newspapers and has worked as a political analyst for different radios and TVs; he co-hosts a political talk show on national TV in Chile