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Biographical Information
Ambassador Gert Rosenthal
CURRICULUM VITAE
(Abridged version)
Date of Birth: 11 September 1935
Citizenship: Guatemala
Marital Status: Married, 4 daughters
EDUCATION AND DEGREES
B.A. (Economics), University of California at Berkeley, 1957
M.A. (Economics), University of California at Berkeley, 1958
Licenciado en Ciéncias Económicas, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 1959
Honorary Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Universidad del Valle, Guatemala, 1996
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 1959-1967 | Private sector in Guatemala |
| 1960-1964 | Economist of the National Planning Secretariat, Guatemala (half-time) |
| 1964 | Representative of Guatemala on the Executive Council of the Central American Common Market |
| 1965 | Chief, Economic Development Division, National Planning Secretariat, Guatemala |
| 1966-67 | Officer in charge of external financing, Ministry of Finance, Guatemala (half-time) |
| 1968 | Assistant to the Secretary-General, Secretariat of the Central American Common Market (SIECA) |
| 1969-1970 | Secretary General (rank of Minister) of the National Planning Secretariat, Guatemala |
| 1971 | Fellow, Adlai Stevenson Institute for International Affairs, Chicago, Illinois (On campus of University of Chicago) |
| 1972-1973 | Project Director, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, based in Guatemala City, and designed to promote the Central American Common Market |
| 1973-1974 | Secretary General (rank of Minister) of the National Planning Secretariat, Guatemala |
| 1974-1985 | Director, Subregional Office in Mexico of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (jurisdiction over Mexico, Central America, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Haiti, with a staff of approximately 80 persons) |
| 1985-1987 | Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Santiago, Chile |
| 1988-1997 | Executive Secretary of the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (with rank of Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, supervising astaff of over 700 persons) |
| 1998 | Member of the Oversight Commission of the Guatemalan Peace Accords |
| 1999 - | Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations |
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
| 1969-1974 | Professor of Economic Development and Public Finance, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala |
PUBLICATIONS
Numerous publications on development issues between 1960 and 1997
LANGUAGES
Native Spanish, fluent in English, conversant in French and German
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