Astrid Fischel Volio (born 26 March 1954) is a Costa Rican historian, academic and politician who served as First Vice President of Costa Rica from 1998 to 2002. A member of the Social Christian Unity Party, she later served as Minister of Public Education from 2002 to 2003.International Who's Who of Women 2006, p.252
Life Astrid Fischel Volio was educated at the University of Costa Rica and the University of Southampton. From 1984 to 1998 she was Professor at the History and Geography School of the University of Costa Rica.
From 1998 to 2002 she was First Vice President and Minister of Culture. She was appointed Minister of Education in 2002, but was forced to resign on 3 June 2003, amid a teachers' strike over the Ministry's inability to pay teachers.
Works Consenso y represión: Una interpretación sociopolítica de la educación costarricense [Consensus and Repression: A Socio-Political Interpretation of Costa Rican Education], 1987 El Uso Ingenioso de la Ideología en Costa Rica [The Clever Use of Ideology in Costa Rica], 1992
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