Rubens Ricupero
GCIH
Ricupero in 2004
Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
In office
September 15, 1995 – September 14, 2004
Secretary-GeneralBoutros Boutros-Ghali
Kofi Annan
Preceded byKenneth Dadzie
Succeeded bySupachai Panitchpakdi
Ambassador of Brazil to Italy
In office
March 19, 1995 – December 12, 1995
Nominated byFernando Henrique Cardoso
Preceded byOrlando Carbonar
Succeeded byPaulo Pires do Rio
Minister of Finance
In office
April 5, 1994 – September 3, 1994
PresidentItamar Franco
Preceded byFernando Henrique Cardoso
Succeeded byCiro Gomes
Minister of the Environment and the Legal Amazon
In office
September 16, 1993 – April 5, 1994
PresidentItamar Franco
Preceded byFernando Coutinho Jorge
Succeeded byHenrique Brandão Cavalcanti
Ambassador of Brazil to the United States
In office
August 25, 1991 – August 25, 1993
Nominated byFernando Collor de Mello
Preceded byMarcílio Marques Moreira
Succeeded byPaulo Tarso Flecha de Lima
Personal details
Born (1937-03-01) March 1, 1937 (age 86)[1]
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil[2]
SpouseMarisa Parolari[2]
Alma materUniversity of São Paulo School of Law[1]
ProfessionDiplomat

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.[2]

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.[2]

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.[3] He was the Brazilian Minister of the Environment and Amazonian Affairs, before becoming Minister of Finance in 1994.[2]

He is credited with providing continuity during the implementation of the Plano Real.[4] This plan encompassed anti-inflationary monetary reform, the introduction of the modern Brazilian real and other measures taken to stabilize the Brazilian economy.[5]

Diplomatic postings have included:

Selected works

Ricupero's published encompass 48 works in 58 publications in 4 languages and 400 library holdings.[6]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Ministry of Finance of Brazil Website (in Portuguese). Retrieved November 18, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h UNCTAD: biographical notes
  3. ^ a b Dornbusch, Rüdiger et al. (1995). Reform, Recovery, and Growth: Latin America and the Middle East., p. 172, at Google Books
  4. ^ D'Angelo, Marcello and Durval Guimarães e Marcos. "FH assinou o real fora do governo,"JB Online. 2 July 2008.
  5. ^ Ministério da Fazenda do Brazil. Exposição de Motivos da MP do Plano Real. Archived 2010-06-30 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ WorldCat Identities: Ricupero, Rubens

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Political offices Preceded byFernando Coutinho Jorge Minister of the Environment and the Legal Amazon 1993–1994 Succeeded byHenrique Brandão Cavalcanti Preceded byFernando Henrique Cardoso Minister of Finances 1994 Succeeded byCiro Gomes Diplomatic posts Preceded byMarcílio Marques Moreira Ambassador of Brazil to the United States 1991–1993 Succeeded byPaulo Tarso Flecha de Lima Preceded byOrlando Carbonar Ambassador of Brazil to Italy 1995 Succeeded byPaulo Pires do Rio Preceded byKenneth Dadzie Secretary-General of theUnited Nations Conference on Trade and Development 1995–2004 Succeeded bySupachai Panitchpakdi
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