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Laura Chinchilla

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Laura Chinchilla

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Also known as Laura Chinchilla Miranda

46th President of Costa Rica

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Laura Chinchilla Miranda is a Costa Rican politician, lawyer, and political scientist. Born in San José in 1959, she is a member of the National Liberation Party and a Catholic. She received her education at the University of Costa Rica and the Walsh School of Foreign Service. Chinchilla served as the President of Costa Rica and was a candidate in the 2010 Costa Rican general election.

In her professional career, she has been employed by Georgetown University. She is affiliated with the Kofi Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age. Her spouse is José María Rico, and she resides in San José. She has authored works, including contributions to PS Quarterly.

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Origin
Germany
Active from
1988
power metal

Discography

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5 total works indexed

  1. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

    · 2018 · cited 36,259x

  2. The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners

    · 2019 · cited 21,728x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,787x

  4. How Many Interviews Are Enough?

    · 2006 · cited 16,304x

  5. Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

    · 2020 · cited 14,074x

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Encyclopedic overview

Laura Chinchilla Miranda ( Spanish: [ˈlawɾa tʃinˈtʃiʝa miˈɾanda]; born 28 March 1959) is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's two Vice-Presidents and his administration's Minister of Justice. She was the governing PLN candidate for president in the 2010 general election, where she won with 46.76% of the vote on 7 February. She was the eighth woman president of a Latin American country and the first woman to become President of Costa Rica. She was sworn in as President of Costa Rica on 8 May 2010.

After leaving office, she taught at Georgetown University in 2016. Chinchilla is co-chair of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank and the vice-president of Club de Madrid. Chinchilla previously served as a Fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service.

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