birth_place birth_date residence article_title name
santiago , chile 6 october 1948 santiago , chile josé piñera
 josé piñera
josé piñera

josé piñera echenique -lrb- born october 6 , 1948 -rrb- is a chilean economist , one of the so-called chicago boys who served as minister of labor and social security , and of mining , in the military dictatorship of augusto pinochet .
he is the architect of chile 's private pension system based on personal retirement accounts .
piñera has been called `` the world 's foremost advocate of privatizing public pension systems '' as well as `` the pension reform pied piper '' -lrb- by the wall street journal -rrb- .
he is now distinguished senior fellow at the cato institute , a libertarian think tank based in washington , president of the international center for pension reform based in santiago , senior fellow at the italian libertarian think tank istituto bruno leoni , and member of the advisory board of the vienna-based educational initiative for central and eastern europe .
he has a masters and a ph.d. in economics from harvard university .
