Rebeca Grynspan

Rebeca Grynspan
Official portrait, 2024
Secretary-General of UNCTAD
Assumed office
13 September 2021
Preceded byMukhisa Kituyi
Secretary-General of the Ibero-American General Secretariat
In office
1 April 2014 – 10 September 2021
Preceded byEnrique Iglesias
Succeeded byAndrés Allamand (designated)
Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
In office
1 February 2010 – 1 April 2014
Preceded byAd Melkert
Succeeded byMaria Eugenia Casar
Second Vice President of Costa Rica
In office
8 May 1994 – 8 May 1998
PresidentJosé María Figueres
Preceded byArnoldo López Echandi
Succeeded byElizabeth Odio Benito
Personal details
Born (1955-12-14) 14 December 1955
San José, Costa Rica
Political partyNational Liberation Party
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Costa Rica
University of Sussex

Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis (born 14 December 1955) is a Costa Rican economist and politician who has been the Secretary-General of the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021. She was the Vice President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998.

Grynspan was the Ibero-American Secretary General from 2014 to 2021 and the UN Under-Secretary-General[1] and the Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2010 to 2014.[2]

On 8 October 2025, Grynspan was nominated by Costa Rican president Rodrigo Chaves to become the next Secretary-General of the United Nations upon the end of António Guterres' tenure in 2026.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Rebeca Grynspan, Secretaria General Iberoamericana". SEGIB website. Archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "ECLAC Officer Appointed as UNDP Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean". CEPAL. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Costa Rica nominates former Vice President Rebeca Grynspan to lead UN". AP News. 9 October 2025. Retrieved 9 October 2025.


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