About Ricardo Lagos
Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military dictatorship and astounded contemporaries in 1988 by openly denouncing dictator Augusto Pinochet on live television. He served as Minister of Education from 1990 to 1992 and Minister of Public Works from 1994 to 1998 under President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle before narrowly winning the 1999–2000 presidential election in a runoff against Independent Democrat Union (UDI) candidate Joaquín Lavín. Lagos was the third president from the centre-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy to have governed Chile since 1990. He was succeeded on 11 March 2006 by Socialist Michelle Bachelet, from the same coalition. From 2007 to 2010 he served as a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Lagos made an unsuccessful bid to run for president in the 2017 Chilean general election.
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Awards & Honors
Grand Order of King Tomislav
Grand Cross with Chain of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (civil)
honorary doctorate
Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Collar of the Order of the Star of Romania
Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry
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Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru
Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit
honorary doctor of Harvard University
Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross
honorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca
Collar of the Order of Merit
Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
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Grand Cross of the Order of Stara Planina
