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Rubens Ricupero (born March 1, 1937) is a Brazilian
WorldCat Identities Ricupero, Rubens
/ref> * 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''
Grand Officer of the 
Grand Officer of the
Reform, Recovery, and Growth: Latin America and the Middle East
'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ;
Rubens Ricupero
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academic
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, economist
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, bureaucrat and diplomat
A diplomat (from ; romanization, romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state (polity), state, International organization, intergovernmental, or Non-governmental organization, nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one ...
. He served as the fifth Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is an intergovernmental organization within the United Nations Secretariat that promotes the interests of developing countries in world trade. It was established in 1964 by the United Nations General Assembl ...
from September 1995 to September 2004.
Education
Ricupero earned a Bachelor in Law from theUniversity of São Paulo
The Universidade de São Paulo (, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil.
The university was founded on 25 January 1934, regrouping already existing schools in ...
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 theUniversity of Brasília
A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...
; 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
The Plano Real (" Real Plan",The word ''real'' in Portuguese could be translated either to ''real'' or ''royal'' in English. The name of the plan comes from the name of the currency which was chosen to give the idea of a stable and credible p ...
. This plan encompassed anti-inflationary monetary reform, the introduction of the modern Brazilian real
The Brazilian real (plural, pl. '; currency symbol, sign: R$; ISO 4217, code: BRL) is the official currency of Brazil. It is subdivided into 100 centavos. The Central Bank of Brazil is the central bank and the issuing authority. The real repl ...
and other measures taken to stabilize the Brazilian economy.
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
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is a legal agreement between many countries, whose overall purpose was to promote international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas. According to its p ...
, 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./ref> * 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 theOrder of Prince Henry
The Order of Prince Henry () is a Portuguese order of knighthood created on 2 June 1960, to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of the Portuguese ''infante'' Prince Henry the Navigator, one of the main initiators of the Age of Discovery. M ...
(1986)
* Grand Officer of the Order of Military Merit (Brazil)
The Order of Military Merit () is an award of the Brazilian Army
The Brazilian Army (; EB) is the branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces responsible, externally, for defending the country in eminently terrestrial operations and, internally, for ...
(1994)
* Grand Officer of the Order of the Sun of Peru
The Order of the Sun of Peru (Spanish: ''Orden El Sol del Perú''), formerly known as the Order of the Sun, is the highest award bestowed by the nation of Peru to commend notable civil and military merit. The award is the oldest civilian award in ...
(2019)
Notes
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
, - , - , - , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Ricupero, Rubens Living people 1937 births Ministers of finance of Brazil Ambassadors of Brazil to the United States Ambassadors of Brazil to Italy Permanent representatives of Brazil to the United Nations in Geneva Brazilian columnists Academic staff of the University of Brasília University of São Paulo alumni Grand Cordons of the Order of the Rising Sun