The UN and Development Thinking in Latin America

In collaboration with the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies.

Gert Rosenthal
Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations

Tuesday, April 16 at 5 p.m

Gert Rosenthal
Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the United Nations

WHEN: Tuesday, April 16 at 5 p.m

WHERE: Room 9206-7
The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave.

Prior to taking up the position of Guatemala's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in December 1998, Gert Rosenthal served on the Follow-up Commission of the Guatemalan Peace Accords. From 1988 to 1997, he had a distinguished career as Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC or CEPAL [http://www.eclac.cl/default.asp?idioma=IN]). He joined that United Nations regional commission in 1974 as Director of its Mexico office, and in 1987 was appointed its Deputy Executive Secretary. Mr. Rosenthal held various positions in Guatemala's national public administration since joining its Secretariat of Economic Planning in 1960. From 1969 to 1971, and again in 1973 through 1974 he was Minister of Planning. Between 1969 and 1970, he was the Secretary-General of his country's National Council for Economic Planning. In 1971 he was a Fellow for the Adlai Stevenson Institute for International Affairs in Chicago. He holds an advanced degree in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. From 1970 to 1974, he was Professor of Public Finance and Economic Development at the Universidad Rafael Landivar in Guatemala. Gert Rosenthal has published more than 120 articles and essays on development issues, with a particular focus on Latin America and Central America.

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