Eduardo Vergara Bolbaran was born in Rancagua in 1979 and is a political scientist at the University of Portland in the United States. He also has a master’s degree in political science from the State University of California, a master of public affairs in human security from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences Po) and has advanced studies in drug policy at the Central European University of Budapest and Oxford Analytics.

Since then, he has worked on such important processes as the disarmament of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the conflicts that took place in this region of the Balkans in the 1990s. He has also taught at the University of the Martyrs in Uganda and has presented proposals on public security policies before the Congress of Mexico, the Organization of American States (OAS), UNASUR, the European Parliament and Commission, as well as in various universities in Europe and the United States.

Along with the above, he founded the NGO Asuntos del Sur and the Latin American Observatory of Drug Policies and Human Security, and is a member of the Organized Crime Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean.

In Chile, he was head of the Public Security Division of the Ministry of the Interior between 2015 and 2018, and later took over as executive director of the Chile 21 Foundation, through which he formed the largest network of municipalities that exists in the country in terms of prevention and security.

He is editor and co-author of the book Chile and Drugs and co-author of “From repression to regulation: Proposals to reform drug policies”, which has numerous publications in academic journals and indexed publications.

Vergara was an event speaker at the Dialogue.