Jaime Fierro Carrasco

Hello everyone, today I will write about Jaime Fierro Carrasco. He is a Doctor (Ph.D.) in Political Science from the University of Essex, England. Ph.D. in Moral Philosophy and Politics, University of Chile. Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Valladolid-University of Salamanca, Spain. Master in Social Sciences, mention Sociology of Modernization, University of Chile. Sociologist and Bachelor of Sociology, University of Chile.

In the area of ​​public policy, he has been an advisor to the Minister of Planning and Cooperation (2001-2002), the Cabinet of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health (2002) and the Department of Policies and Decentralization in the Undersecretariat of Regional and Administrative Development (2007- 2009). He has also developed as a researcher at the Center for Development Studies (1997-2001) and Latinobarómetro (2006-2007). Since 2015 he is the Research Coordinator of the Institute of Public Affairs.

In addition to the above, he is a professor at the University of Chile and in 2016 he received the award for the best teacher at the same university. The teacher has made various publications and research related to citizenship and democracy, among them his book "La ciudadanía y sus límites".

I chose to talk about him, because he was my teacher last year in the course "Fenómenos Políticos Contemporáneos" and I liked his way of thinking about teaching, because for him the grades are not the most important thing, the important is learning. I also liked the way he viewed politics and the way he related it to the Public Administration. For all this I feel that it is a great contribution for the area.