Christiana Figueres

Christiana Figueres was picked Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in May 2010. With a long and saw bringing in the field, Ms. Figueres was a man from the Costa Rican normal change arranging pack 1995-2009.

She tended to Latin America and the Caribbean on the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism in 2007, and was then picked Vice President of the Bureau 2008-2009. She imagined the new cash related instrument "customized CDM" with four significant allotments that checked general conclusion on this unique thought.

She started her life of open association as Minister Counselor at the Embassy of Costa Rica in Bonn, Germany in 1982. She served as Director of International Cooperation in the Ministry of Planning in Costa Rica, and was then named Chief of Staff to the Minister of Agriculture. Moving to the USA, she was Director of Renewable Energy in the Americas (REIA) and in 1995 developed the non-advantage Center for Sustainable Development of the Americas (CSDA) which she formed for a long time. She outlined out and set up national characteristic change programs in Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, changing into a prime promoter of Latin America's dynamic energy for the Climate Change Convention. She served as strange state manual for both governments and selective associations, including Endesa Latinoamérica. In 2001 she got the Hero for the Planet Award from the National Geographic Magazine.

Ms. Figueres has made basic obligations to the authentic arrangement on the configuration of the air association, is a champion amongst the most generally scattered writers on the subject, and a dynamic open speaker. She has a Masters Degree in Anthropology from the London School of Economics, and an affirmation in Organizational Development from Georgetown University. She passes on in Spanish, English and German.