Mario Waissbluth  
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Mario Waissbluth is Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department of Universidad de Chile and National Coordinator of the citizen's movement Educación 2020.

He has been ratified by the Senate of Chile as member of the High Public Management Council for the period 2004-2010. This Council is in charge of proposing short lists of candidates for directors and second level executives for 100 Civil Services in the country.

Additionally, he is Member of the Board of INVERTEC Foods (an agro industrial company). He is also Academic Director at the Center of Public Systems, Universidad de Chile.

He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin (1974), with postdoctoral research in biotechnology.

Formerly, he was Technology Manager at the National Council for Science and Technology in Mexico, Director of the Center for Technological Innovation of the National University of Mexico, and Board Member of CODELCO, the largest copper mining company in Chile. He has published more than 70 papers and/or book chapters in subjects ranging from biotechnology to strategic planning, technology management and public sector management.

His consulting activities include the conduction and/or supervision of more than 200 projects, mostly in three subjects: technology policy/management; business strategy, and public sector management.

In the field of public sector management, he has conducted more than 100 projects, many of them for the Interamerican Development Bank and the World Bank in Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Perú, Panamá and Uruguay.