The Impact Of

Think Thanks In

Latin America:

IEP Experience

ROXANA BARRANTES Director General

Institute of Peruvian Studies

Rio de Janeiro, July 12th, 2013

HISTORY AND

CONTEXT

Social

sciences

boom

in the 1960s

National government: from centralized rule

towards democracy (1985)

Prominent

intellectuals

established IEP

(1964)

ISSUES AND

DISCIPLINES

Cultura y diversidad

Desigualdad y pobreza Poverty and inequality

Culture and

diversity

Governance,

democracy and

decentralization

RESEARCH

QUALITY

Intellectual

leadership

Capacity building / attracting

talent

Debate permanente

Continuous debate

Public events

Publications

DISSEMINATION

Communications

International networks

Womens economic empowerment (Equal Futures)

IMPACT

FINANCIAL INCLUSION

AND EDUCATION

(PERU)

Technical

support to

Midis,

Banco de

la Nacin

and

to the MEF

Development of the National Strategy

for Financial Inclusion and Education

Program design for FOSIS

Participated

in the

evaluations

of Chile

Cuenta

and

Programa

Puente

IMPACT FINANCIAL INCLUSION

AND EDUCATION

(CHILE)

IMPACT HIGHER EDUCATION

Program

Beca 18

Debate

about

higher

education

reform

IMPACT

INFORMATION AND

COMMUNICATION

TECHNOLOGIES

Plan of Action for the Information Society in

Latin America and the Caribbean

National Plan for Broadband

Development in Peru

Studies into the affordability of

mobile telephone services

THANKS!

Questions?

www.iep.org.pe institutodeestudiosperuanos

@IEPeruanos

roxbarrantes@iep.org.pe