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