Alicia Bárcena
| Alicia Bárcena Ibarra | |
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| Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2008 |
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| Secretary-General | Ban Ki-moon |
| Preceded by | José Luis Machinea |
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| Born |
5 March 1952 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Alma mater |
National Autonomous University of Mexico Harvard University |
Alicia Isabel Adriana Bárcena Ibarra is a Mexican biologist who currently serves as the United Nations Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Bárcena Ibarra holds a bachelor's degree in biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University.
Bárcena is a former undersecretary of the environment in the federal cabinet and a former director of Mexico's National Institute of Fisheries (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Pesca).
She collected extensive experience in international organizations. She was Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) earlier in her career. In this position, she has actively promoted the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals and on Financing for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Within ECLAC, she also served as the Chief of the Environment and Human Settlements Division, where she focused on public policies for sustainable development with particular reference to the linkages between environment, economy and social issues.
She has acted as Coordinator of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in charge of a global programme on environmental citizenship with emphasis on the participation of civil society, as well as adviser to the Latin American and Caribbean Sustainable Development Programme in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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