About the Author
Arturo Fontaine Talavera is the director of the Centro de Estúdios Públicos (CEP), a prominent public policy research institute in Santiago, Chile, and also serves as editorial director of the institute’s quarterly publication, Estúdios Públicos. He is a professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Catholic University of Chile, where he teaches political philosophy. He is the author of the novels Oír su voz (1992) and Cuando éramos inmortales, which was published by Alfaguara in 1998.