Rubens Ricupero (born March 1, 1937) is a Brazilian academic, economist, bureaucrat and diplomat. He served as the fifth Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development from September 1995 to September 2004.
Education Ricupero earned a Bachelor in Law from the University of São Paulo in 1959. He also studied at the Rio Branco Institute, a branch of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations.
Career From 1979 to 1995, Ricupero taught courses in international relations at the University of Brasília; and in the same period, he also taught the history of Brazilian diplomatic relations at the Rio Branco Institute.
Ricupero was Chairman of the Finance Committee at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development which was held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.Dornbusch, Rüdiger et al. (1995). He was the Brazilian Minister of the Environment and Amazonian Affairs, before becoming Minister of Finance in 1994.
He is credited with providing continuity during the implementation of the Plano Real.D'Angelo, Marcello and Durval Guimarães e Marcos. "FH assinou o real fora do governo,"JB Online. 2 July 2008. This plan encompassed anti-inflationary monetary reform, the introduction of the modern Brazilian real and other measures taken to stabilize the Brazilian economy.Ministério da Fazenda do Brazil. Exposição de Motivos da MP do Plano Real.
Diplomatic postings have included: Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva (1987–1991) Ambassador to the United States of America (1991–1993) Ambassador to Italy (1995) GATT, Chairman of Council of Representatives (1989, 1991)
Selected works Ricupero's published encompass 48 works in 58 publications in 4 languages and 400 library holdings. WorldCat Identities: Ricupero, Rubens
2010 — Diário de bordo: A viagem presidencial de Tancredo 2007 — A abertura dos portos 2006 — A ONU no século XXI: perspectivas 2004 — Beyond Conventional Wisdom in development policy: an Intellectual History of UNCTAD 1964-2004 2001 — O Brasil e o dilema da globalização 2000 — Rio Branco: o Brasil no mundo 1998 — O ponto ótimo da crise. Rio de Janeiro: Ed. Revan. ; OCLC 254511468 1995 — Visões do Brasil : ensaios sobre a história e a inserção internacional do Brasil. Rio de Janeiro;São Paulo : Ed. Record. ; OCLC 254090142 1994 — A Nova inserção internacional do Brasil 1994 — Estabilidade e crescimento: os desafios do real 1993 — NAFTA and Brazil (with Sérgio Estanislav do Amaral, Robert Charles Kelso). Coral Gables, Florida: North-South Center, University of Miami. OCLC 29661557 1992 — O Futuro do Brasil : a América Latina e o fim da guerra fria 1991 — Brasil em mudança
Honours Santos-Dumont Merit Medal (1973) Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry (1986) Grand Officer of the Order of Military Merit (Brazil) (1994) Grand Officer of the Order of the Sun of Peru (2019)
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References Dornbusch, Rüdiger and Sebastian Edwards. (1995). Reform, Recovery, and Growth: Latin America and the Middle East. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ;
External links Rubens Ricupero