Rebeca Grynspan

Rebeca Grynspan


Secretary-General of the Ibero-American General Secretariat
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 April 2014
Preceded by	Enrique Iglesias
Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
In office 1 February 2010 – 1 April 2014
Secretary-General	Ban Ki-moon
Preceded by	Ad Melkert
Succeeded by	Maria Eugenia Casar
Second Vice President of Costa Rica
In office 8 May 1994 – 8 May 1998
President	José María Figueres
Preceded by	Arnoldo López Echandi
Succeeded by	Elizabeth Odio Benito

Personal details
Born	(1955-12-14) 14 December 1955 San José, Costa Rica
Political party	National Liberation Party
Spouse(s)	Saúl Weisleder
Children	2
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Costa Rica University of Sussex

Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis (born 1955) is a Costa Rican economist, the Secretary General of SEGIB,^[1] the Ibero-American Secretary General, a former UN Under-Secretary-General, and the Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. She was the Vice President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. Grynspan 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]

Early life and Career

She is the daughter of Manuel Grynspan Burstin and Sara Mayufis Schapiro, immigrants from Poland of Jewish ancestry. She is married to Saúl Weisleder, deputy (legislator) for the National Liberation Party (Costa Rica), and they have two children. Grynspan studied economics and sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and later 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.

Grynspan has been a professor and researcher at the Economic Science Research Institute at the University of Costa Rica. She is also a member of the Inter-American Dialogue.^[3]

Political life

Before joining the UN, Grynspan 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.

She 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.

United Nations Development Programme

Grynspan was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the position of UN Under-Secretary-General and the United Nations Development Programme Associate Administrator on Feb 1, 2010. At the UN and prior to her current appointment, Ms. Grynspan served as Assistant-Secretary-General and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations Development Programme from 2006 to 2010.^[5]

SEGIB

Rebeca Grynspan was unanimously elected Secretary General of the Ibero-American Secretary General (Secretaria General Iberoamericana), SEGIB, in a special meeting of the Ministers of External Relations on February 24, 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.^[6]^[7]

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.^[8]

References

↑ "Rebeca Grynspan, Secretaria General Iberoamericana". SEGIB website. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
↑ "ECLAC Officer Appointed as UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean". CEPAL. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
↑ "Inter-American Dialogue | Rebeca Grynspan". www.thedialogue.org. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
↑ "Secretary-General appoints Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica as Director of UN Development Programme's Latin America and Caribbean Bureau". UN. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
↑ "United Nations Development Programme - Rebeca Grynspan, UNDP Associate Administrator". UNDP. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
↑ "Rebeca Grynspan, Secretaria General Iberoamericana". SEGIB website. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
↑ González, Miguel (18 Feb 2014). "Rebeca Grynspan será la nueva secretaria general iberoamericana". El País. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
↑ Secretary-General Appoints 29 Global Leaders to Spearhead Fight against Malnutrition United Nations, press release of 21 September 2016.

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Political offices
Preceded by Arnoldo López Echandi	Second Vice President of Costa Rica 1994–1998	Succeeded by Elizabeth Odio Benito
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Ad Melkert	Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme 2010–2014	Succeeded by Maria Eugenia Casar
Preceded by Enrique Iglesias	Secretary-General of the Ibero-American General Secretariat 2014–present	Incumbent

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