Rebeca Grynspan | |
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Secretary-General of UNCTAD | |
Assumed office 13 September 2021 | |
Preceded by | Mukhisa Kituyi |
Secretary-General of the Ibero-American General Secretariat | |
In office 1 April 2014 –10 September 2021 | |
Preceded by | Enrique Iglesias |
Succeeded by | Andrés Allamand (designated) |
Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme | |
In office 1 February 2010 –1 April 2014 | |
Preceded by | Ad Melkert |
Succeeded by | Maria Eugenia Casar |
Second Vice President of Costa Rica | |
In office 8 May 1994 –8 May 1998 | |
President | JoséMaría Figueres |
Preceded by | Arnoldo López Echandi |
Succeeded by | Elizabeth Odio Benito |
Personal details | |
Born | 14 December 1955 San José,Costa Rica |
Political party | National Liberation Party |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | University of Costa Rica University of Sussex |
Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis (born 14 December 1955) is a Costa Rican economist who has been serving as Secretary-General of the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021.
Grynspan previously served as Ibero-American Secretary General (2014–2021) and as a UN Under-Secretary-General [1] and the Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (2010–2014). She previously served as Director of UNDP's Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean,appointed to the position by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in December 2005. [2] She was the Vice President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998.
Grynspan is the daughter of Manuel Grynspan Burstin and Sara Mayufis Schapiro,immigrants from Poland of Jewish ancestry. Grynspan obtained a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in economics from the University of Costa Rica and later on a Master of Arts in Economics from Sussex University.
Early in her career,Grynspan was a professor and researcher at the Economic Science Research Institute at the University of Costa Rica.
Grynspan has held various official functions in her country such as Vice-President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998 and concurrently as Housing Minister from 1996 to 1998,Coordinating Minister of Economy from 1995 to 1996,Coordinating Minister of Social Affairs from 1994 to 1998 and Vice-Minister of Finance from 1986 to 1988.
Grynspan was appointed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to be the eighth secretary-general of UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on 13 September 2021. She is the first woman to hold this position in the history of the organization.
Grynspan served as Director of the Subregional Headquarters in Mexico of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from 2001 to 2006,where she also served as Co-Chair of the International Food Policy Research Institute's Executive Board. [4] She was also a member of the UN Millennium Project's Task Force on Poverty and Economic Development and of the UN High-Level Panel on Financing for Development.
Grynspan served as an Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) from 2006 to 2010. [5] In 2010,she was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the position of UN Under-Secretary-General and the Associate Administrator,serving under the leadership of Helen Clark.
Grynspan is a member of the Program for the Support of Women's Leadership and Representation (PROLEAD) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB),and she is former vice president of the board of directors of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) based in Washington,D.C.
Grynspan was unanimously elected Secretary General of the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB),at a special meeting of the bloc's foreign ministers on 24 February 2014 in Mexico City,in which representatives of all 22 member countries were present. She succeeded in the office Enrique V. Iglesias,who had held the position since the establishment of SEGIB in 2005. [7] [8]
In September 2016,Grynspan was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to serve as member of the Lead Group of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement. [9]
In early 2021,Grynspan was appointed by the G20 to the High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) on financing the global commons for pandemic preparedness and response,co-chaired by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Lawrence Summers. [10]
In June 2021,following consultations with member states,United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres proposed Grynspan as the next Secretary-General of the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva. [11]
In 2014 and 2015,Grynspan was recognized as one of the 50 leading intellectuals of Latin America and,in 2017,she received a Forbes Excellence Award [12] and was granted the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X The Wise [13] by the Spanish Government. In recognition of her professional achievements,the University of Extremadura [14] and the European University conferred her an honorary doctorate. [15]
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