Paz Buttedahl

Buttedahl was born in Cecilia Paz Goycoolea Grunwald, Vicuña Mackenna, Santiago, Chile, to an upper-middle-class family of European descent.

She moved to the United States to produce a television program for Latin American children that focused on current affairs and promoted staying in school.

Her project was successful in the U.S., and she had an opportunity to obtain a scholarship from Florida State University in Tallahassee, where she earned her doctorate in adult learning and international development.

They launched Buttedahl R&D Associates (BRDA ), an R&D firm which published adult education material and international development reports about sustainable education, Global R&D management, and integration of academics and field research working across borders, multicultural and multilingual settings, and multiple time zones to ensure smooth transfer of new knowledge and technology to other groups or departments involved in innovation.

BRDA was based in Vancouver, providing consultancy services in research, editing, and publishing to projects[4] funded by international agencies and organizations.

VIA Vancouver Institute for the Americas assisted programs under the umbrella of UNESCO and CIDA, and it also participated in large multinational Educational Reform implementations.