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Nicolás Ducoté is the co-founder and Executive Director of CIPPEC. He has held the posts of Director of the National School of Government, Director of the Center for International Cooperation in Public Administration, and Board Member of the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP).

 

He has been an international consultant for the United Nations, Transparency International, the InterAmerican Development Bank, CEPAL, World Economic Forum, and the World Bank, among others, and locally for the Instituto para el Desarrollo Empresarial Argentino - IDEA and the Asociacion Empresaria Argentina (the largest two business associations in the country). 

 

He is the author of numerous articles on public policy in the Argentine national media, and of five internationally published papers, and he has been featured in over 30 news pieces, nationally and internationally, including quotes in The Economist, CNN, BBC, Washington Post and Miami Herald, and has been a speaker and/or Chair in over 50 national and international conferences. He sits on the Editorial Council of El Cronista Comercial (the leading business journal in the country), as well as on the Boards of the Harvard Club of Argentina, Universidad de San Andres (one of the top private non-profit universities in Argentina), and the Foro Social para la Transparencia.

 

He was chosen as Regional Director (2007-2010) for the Harvard Alumni Association, and also is a member of the Advisory Board of the Civil Society Partnerships Programme of the Overseas Development Institute of the UK, and of the Regional Office of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies of Harvard University.

 

He has been a jury member for several national awards, both for the Federal Government and the private sector, and does regular volunteer work advising NGOs, civic and social organizations on institutional development and advocacy in the public interest.

As an entrepreneur, Mr. Ducoté has started, in addition to three nonprofits, several small businesses including one of the top flower shops in Argentina - www.33flores.com , and currently is also partner and shareholder of the premier luxury travel agency in Argentina www.faraway.travel.

 

Education: Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs, Universidad de San Andrés (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Masters in Public Policy, JFK School of Government, Harvard University. World Fellow 2007, Yale University. Gus Hart Fellow 2008, Chicago Council of Global Affairs.

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