Ricardo Lagos Escobar
| Ricardo Lagos | |
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| 34th President of Chile | |
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In office 11 March 2000 – 11 March 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
| Succeeded by | Michelle Bachelet |
| Minister of Public Works | |
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In office 11 March 1994 – 1 August 1998 |
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| President | Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
| Preceded by | Carlos Hurtado Ruiz-Tagle |
| Succeeded by | Jaime Tohá |
| Minister of Education | |
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In office 11 March 1990 – 28 September 1992 |
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| President | Patricio Aylwin |
| Preceded by | René Salamé Martín |
| Succeeded by | Jorge Arrate |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
2 March 1938 Santiago, Chile |
| Political party |
Party for Democracy (1987–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Radical Party (1958–1961) Socialist Party of Chile (1961–1987) |
| Spouse(s) | Luisa Durán |
| Children |
Ricardo Ximena Francisca |
| Alma mater |
University of Chile Duke University |
| Occupation |
Lawyer Economist |
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Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈkaɾðo fɾoiˈlanˈlaɣos eskoˈβaɾ]; March 2, 1938) is a lawyer, economist and social democrat politician, who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union (UDI) candidate Joaquín Lavín. Lagos was the third president from the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy to have ruled Chile since 1990. He was succeeded on March 11, 2006 by Socialist Michelle Bachelet, from the same coalition. Since May 2007 he has served as a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
He teaches political and economic development at Brown University in the United States.
Lagos was born in Santiago, Chile. He was the only child of Froilán Lagos Sepúlveda (a farmer who died when his son was eight years old) and Emma Escobar Morales (who died in April 2005 at age 108). He attended primary school at Liceo Experimental Manuel de Salas and high school at the prestigious Instituto Nacional.
In 1961 Lagos married Carmen Weber, with whom he had two children, Ricardo and Ximena. In 1969, he met Luisa Durán and they married in 1971. The couple shared the parenting of the children of Lagos' first marriage, the children of Durán's first marriage, Hernán and Alejandro, and their only child together, Francisca.
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