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Victor Andrés García-Belaunde (born 1977) is a Peruvian educator, psychologist and ethicist. He is a prominent advocate for secular rationalism in Peru, an otherwise highly traditional and religious country, and is active across various media. He currently leads the Manzana Escéptica, a program for the popularization of science in La Mula TV, and is a panelist on Guía Escéptica , Peru’s first podcast on skepticism, rationality and science. He is a professor at San Ignacio de Loyola University and at Universidad Científica del Sur in Lima, Peru, where he researches and teaches in Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology and Theory of Science, and Deontology, respectively.

Education

García-Belaunde graduated Cum Laude in Psychology from Universidad de Lima. He obtained two Masters, the first in History of Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and the second in Professional and Applied Ethics at the Australian National University, where he graduated with Distinction for his thesis on the moral viability of genetic engineering in humans.

Other notable public activities

Garcia-Belaunde is co-founder and executive director of the Secular Humanist Society of Peru. He has also published several articles on human nature and science communication from a psychological and philosophical perspective. He has been a panelist on educational programs for Radio Union, Radio Miraflores and RPP. Previously, he was a regular panelist on Radio Canto Grande 'Para-normales de la noche', the first radio program to raise awareness of skepticism in Peru. Category:1977 births Category:Australian National University alumni Category:University of Lima alumni Category:American skeptics Category:Skeptics by nationality Category:Atheist philosophers