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Alicia Bárcena
Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)Ms. Bárcena assumed office as the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on 1 July 2008. She had previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Management at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Chef de Cabinet and Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the former Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan. Alicia Bárcena held the post of Deputy Executive Secretary and Director of ECLAC’s Environment and Human Settlements Division. Prior to her time at ECLAC, Ms. Bárcena served as Co-ordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Sustainable Development Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), responsible for the Environmental Citizenship Project at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Alicia Bárcena was the Founding Director of the Earth Council in Costa Rica, a non-governmental organization in charge of follow-up to the agreements reached at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Ms. Bárcena has published numerous articles on sustainable development, public policy, environmental issues, and public participation. Alicia Bárcena holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, in Spanish), as well as a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. She has completed the courses for a degree of Master in Ecology, and has initiated studies for a PhD degree in Economics at the UNAM. She has been awarded an honoris causa doctorate by the University of Oslo, Norway, in September 2014, and by the University of Havana, Cuba, in March 2016. In July 2014, she was appointed by the National Autonomous University of Mexico as extraordinary teacher to collaborate at the Economics School and other entities.
Speakers
- Alicia Bárcena
- Daniel Titelman
- Daniel Zovatto
- Denise Dresser
- Diane Quarless
- Erick Parrado
- Ernesto Samper Pizano
- Gerver Torres
- Gustau Alegret
- Gustavo Garcia
- Jessica Byron
- Jorge Roldós
- José Antonio Ocampo
- Kevin Casas-Zamora
- Laura Chinchilla
- Leonel Fernández
- Luis Almagro
- Luis Manuel Piantini
- Manuel Orozco
- Marcela Berland
- Marcos Pinta Gama
- Margarita Seminario
- María Herminia Brandao Tavares de Almeida
- María Noel Vaeza
- María Victoria Murillo
- Mariangela Parra-Lancourt
- Mario Báez
- Mark Feierstein
- Patricio Navia
- Raul Féliz
- Ricardo Lagos
- Sergio Abreu
- Sergio Bitar
- Wang Hua