Clarisa Rut Hardy Raskovan (born December 15, 1945, in

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) is an Argentinian-born

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, writer and politician from

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, Minister for Social Development and Planning during the first term of

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Biography

Born in a

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family that fled to South America to escape from the

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, arrived to

at the age of five. Her father was the Indian

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Boris Hardy.Caras (Santiago), 12 de agosto de 2005, p.48 She studied at the ''Scuola Italiana'' of

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, and

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at the

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and later obtained a master's degree in

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at the

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Professional and public career

Her first job as a public servant was in 1972, when she was appointed Human Resources Manager of the state-owned Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (Corfo). In 1974, Hardy left

to teach at the School of Psychology of the

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. Later, also in Mexico, between 1982 and 1983, she worked as a researcher for the Center for Social and Economic Studies of the Third World (Ceestem). At the end of 1983 returned to

to work in social affairs. In 1990, she was appointed head of the Department of Social Affairs of the Ministry for Social Development and Planning. Later, she was appointed Executive Secretary of the Chilean government's inter-ministry Social Affairs Committee. In 1994, she started working for Fundación Chile 21, a socialist think tank founded by the social democrat politician and later president

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, responsible for the social affairs workshops. In 1996, she was appointed coordinator of the Social Affairs Department, while at the same time, working as an advisor to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. In 2000, Hardy was appointed Executive Director of Fundación Chile 21, and at the same time, she became part of the advisor committee of the National Women's Service ( Sernam). She remained in the position until 2005. In 2006, she was appointed Minister for Social Development and Planning by president

. She remained in office until 2008. In 2014, she was named Executive Director of the progressive

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Fundación Dialoga, after the resignation of

, who had just been elected president of Chile for a second term.Clarisa Hardy asumirá como presidenta de la Fundación Dialoga tras renuncia de Bachelet

Published works

*''Derechos ciudadanos'' (co-authored with Pablo Morris), 2001 *''Equidad y protección social. Desafíos de políticas sociales en América Latina'', 2004 *''Ideas para Chile'', 2010 *''Estratificación social en América Latina: retos de cohesión social'', 2014

References

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