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Lecture Figueredo at SID, December 10, Amsterdam (MS Word)

Reinaldo Figueredo

Reinaldo Figueredo was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He studied Political Sciences in Paris, France and obtained his Licence on Science Economique – Graduate Cum Laude in the ULB, Brussels, Belgium. His professional experience encompasses several senior and high-level executive positions in Venezuela in the Ministry of Energy, the Foreign Trade Institute, Minister of the Presidency of Venezuela, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Commission on Privatisation and Vice-Chairman on the Defence Commission and President of the Venezuela Institute on Foreign Trade.

Between 1980 and 1984 he was Director of the Manufactures Division in UNCTAD, Geneva. He was a Member of the UN Commission on the Truth and Reconciliation of El Salvador. Between 1998-1999 he was Special Rapporteur on Debt for the UN Commission of Human Rights, Geneva. He held the position of Senior Adviser to the Secretary-General of UNCTAD and Director to the joint UNCTAD/UNDP Project on Globalisation, Liberalisation and Sustainable Human Development during the period 1999-2005.

He held the position of Senior Adviser to the Secretary General of UNCTAD and as Interregional Advisor: Focal Point on Capacity Building, Geneva. In parallel to his career as a governmental and international civil servant, he has presided over many international meetings, mainly in development issues and integration. He was the Representative of Venezuela to the OPEC Economic Committee. He has now retired from the UN and is presently an Associate Fellow at the Netherlands Clingendael Institute of International Relations - International Energy Programme.