Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar GColIH OMRI is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as President of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was well-known for his opposition to the Chilean military dictatorship, and astounded contemporaries by calling out dictator Augusto Pinochet on live TV. He won the 1999-2000 presidential election by a narrow margin in a runoff over Independent Democrat Union candidate Joaquín Lavín. Lagos was the third president from the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy to have ruled Chile since 1990. He was succeeded on March 11, 2006 by Socialist Michelle Bachelet, from the same coalition. From 2007 to 2010 he served as a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Lagos made an unsuccessful bid to run for president in the 2017 Chilean general election.