{"id":5678,"date":"2006-01-01T13:42:13","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2017-11-09T13:50:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T18:50:36","slug":"chilean-leader-touches-two-audiences-during-his-miami-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2006\/01\/chilean-leader-touches-two-audiences-during-his-miami-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean leader touches two audiences during his Miami stay."},"content":{"rendered":"

During his distinguished career, Dr. Jos\u00e9 Pi\u00f1era<\/strong>, Chile\u2019s former minister of labor and social security, and architect of the Chile\u2019s social security reform, has spoken one-on-one with international leaders\u2014including U.S. presidents and top Latin American officials\u2014about the Chilean model that revolutionized the state pension system and created personal retirement accounts (PRAs). Recently, he galvanized two new audiences\u2014both affiliated with the Chapman Graduate School of Business\u2014during a short, but intense visit to Miami.<\/p>\n

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Jos\u00e9 Pi\u00f1era<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Upon his arrival, he presented a lecture titled \u201cEmpowering Workers: The Privatization of Social Security in Chile\u201d to the Latin American Forum, an invitation-only group of chief executive officers for Latin America\u2014or their equivalents\u2014of major multinational corporations.<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Pi\u00f1era\u2019s riveting talk to the Latin American Forum was incredibly well attended and very enthusiastically received,\u201d said Natalia Echeverr\u00eda<\/strong>, corporate relations manager for the Chapman Graduate School of Business, whose office coordinates the activities of the Forum. \u201cWhat he had to say then generated a great deal of discussion among the Forum\u2019s members.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the following day, he addressed students, faculty, and staff in the Executive MBA (EMBA) program. Ruben Cespedes<\/strong>, who is an executive at LAN Airlines and an EMBA student, was instrumental in arranging for LAN to co-sponsor Pi\u00f1era\u2019s visit by paying for his flight. Cespedes also coordinated with Echeverr\u00eda to make the presentation on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a truly wonderful opportunity\u2014and an honor\u2014 to be able to listen to a legend in his time, a man who single-handedly reformed Chile\u2019s social security system and who has made a tremendous difference in the world\u201d said Cathy M. Pareto<\/strong> (BA ’95), senior financial advisor and certified financial planner, Investor Solutions, Inc. and an EMBA student. \u201cHe also shed light onto our country\u2019s struggle with social security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among his many accomplishments, Pi\u00f1era<\/strong> is responsible for the Social Security Act of 1980 that created a fully-funded pension system in Chile, for the Labor Code that regulated trade union activity and decentralized collective bargaining, and for the opening of the health sector to private provision. He is the founder and president of the International Center for Pension Reform, a non-profit initiative that promotes the reform of state pension systems along the lines of the Chilean model.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was able to speak with him briefly after his talk and have corresponded with him by e-mail,\u201d Pareto said. \u201cHe has an open-door policy and thrives on sharing his experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Pi\u00f1era\u2019s visit is an example of how the Chapman School partners successfully with its students and the corporate community, such as LAN Airlines, to sponsor internationally-acclaimed figures of great stature who have many valuable insights to share,\u201d Echeverr\u00eda said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During his distinguished career, Dr. Jos\u00e9 Pi\u00f1era, Chile\u2019s former minister of labor and social security, and architect of the Chile\u2019s social security reform, has spoken one-on-one with international leaders\u2014including U.S. presidents and top Latin American officials\u2014about the Chilean model that revolutionized the state pension system and created personal retirement accounts (PRAs). Recently, he galvanized two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[367,680,1927,1979,2332],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29620,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions\/29620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}