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# José Piñera 

Distinguished Senior Fellow

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José Piñera is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute as well as the founder and president of the [International Center for Capitalization](https://www.economiaysociedad.cl/iccr). As Minister of Labor and Social Security of Chile, Dr. Piñera was the architect of the country’s landmark private pension system reform. Piñera also designed the labor laws that introduced flexibility to the Chilean labor market and, as secretary of mining, he was responsible for the constitutional law that established private property rights in Chilean mines.

Dr. Piñera has brought his reform experience to the highest levels of government worldwide, having advised presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on pension reform and testified before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and the U.K. House of Commons Social Security Committee. He has also advised other governments throughout the world and has delivered keynote addresses at Cato Institute conferences in Beijing, Shanghai, Moscow, St. Petersburg, London, Tokyo, Lima, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires, as well as at conferences organized by corporations, think tanks, and universities around the world.

Dr. Piñera holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He has written [ten books](http://www.josepinera.org/libros/books.htm), among them [*Toward a World of Workers-Capitalists*](https://www.economiaysociedad.cl/towards-a-world-of-workeres-capitalists), and published numerous articles on pension reform and economic policy.

Visit his website at [https://​www​.econo​mi​ayso​ciedad​.cl/](https://www.economiaysociedad.cl/).

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