Centro de Estudios Públicos


Centro de Estudios Públicos is a Chilean think tank.
CEP is based in Santiago and was founded in 1980.
Eliodoro Matte Larraín, the billionaire president of the Chilean forestry and paper company CMPC, is chairman of CEP. The president is Harald Beyer, the Minister of Education of Chile from 2011 to 2013 until his impeachment for failing to address illegal for-profit activity in universities.

Notable speakers

Lectures have been given by people including Mario Vargas Llosa, Hernando de Soto, Michael Novak, Robert Lucas, Eric Donald Hirsch, Eric Anderson, Friedrich Hayek, Margaret Thatcher, Václav Klaus, Peter Berger, Salman Rushdie and Milton Friedman.

Selected publications