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IRI's Walter Baethgen Selected to Prestigious Advisory Post

Walter Baethgen, research scientist and director of the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Program at the IRI, has been invited to become a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI).

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