Rubens Ricupero

Rubens Ricúpero
Minister of Finance of Brazil
In office
April 5, 1994 [1]  September 3, 1994 [1]
Preceded by Fernando Henrique Cardoso [2]
Succeeded by Ciro Gomes [3]
5th Secretary-General of the UNCTAD
In office
September 1995 [4]  September 2004
Preceded by Carlos Fortin [5]
Succeeded by Carlos Fortin
Personal details
Born March 1, 1937 [6]
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil [4]
Spouse(s) Marisa Parolari [4]
Alma mater University of São Paulo School of Law [6]
Profession Diplomat

Rubens Ricupero (born March 1, 1937) is a Brazilian academic, economist, bureaucrat and diplomat. He served as the fifth Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development from September 1995 to September 2004.

Education

Ricupero earned a Bachelor in Law from the University of São Paulo in 1959. He also studied at the Rio Branco Institute, a branch of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations.[4]

Career

From 1979 to 1995, Ricupero taught courses in international relations at the University of Brasília; and in the same period, he also taught the history of Brazilian diplomatic relations at the Rio Branco Institute.[4]

Ricupero was Chairman of the Finance Committee at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development which was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.[7] He was the Brazilian Minister of the Environment and Amazonian Affairs, before becoming Minister of Finance in 1994.[4]

He is credited with providing continuity during the implementation of the Plano Real.[8] This plan encompassed anti-inflationary monetary reform, the introduction of the modern Brazilian real and other measures taken to stabilize the Brazilian economy.[9]

Diplomatic postings have included:

Selected works

Ricupero's published encompass 48 works in 58 publications in 4 languages and 400 library holdings.[10]

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Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 O Estado de S. Paulo, November 9, 1994, p. A26
  2. O Estado de S. Paulo. March 30, 1994, p. A4
  3. O Estado de S. Paulo. September 4, 1994, p. A4
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 UNCTAD: biographical notes
  5. UNCTAD list of former secretaries-general. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Ministry of Finance of Brazil Website (in Portuguese). Retrieved November 18, 2012.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Dornbusch, Rüdiger et al. (1995). Reform, Recovery, and Growth: Latin America and the Middle East., p. 172, at Google Books
  8. D'Angelo, Marcello and Durval Guimarães e Marcos. "FH assinou o real fora do governo,"JB Online. 2 July 2008.
  9. Ministério da Fazenda do Brazil. Exposição de Motivos da MP do Plano Real.
  10. WorldCat Identities: Ricupero, Rubens

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