Oral history interview with Gert Rosenthal, 2001

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Name: Rosenthal, Gert (Interviewee); Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946- (Interviewer)
Title: Oral history interview with Gert Rosenthal, 2001
Abstract: Early years: born in Amsterdam, raised in Guatemala; undergraduate and graduate studies in development economics at University California Berkley; Career: first job in Guatemala's Ministry of Planning; head of an economic integration research project in Central America thru UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); job with the Central American Common Market secretariat, Secretaría Permanent e del Tratado General de Integración Económica Centroamericana (SIECA); 1974 director of Mexico office for UN's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); 1988-97 Executive secretary of ECLAC; 1999-2004 Guatemala's permanent representative to the UN; 2006 Guatemala's foreign minister; Themes: Central American economic integration and industrialization; development and the public sector; admiration for Raúl Prebisch, UNCTAD Secretary-General; import substitution; ECLAC secretariat reformist and nationalist in Chile; "Group of High-Level Experts" commission; G-77 militancy and North-South tensions; Chile's influence on ECLAC secretariat; US opposition to ECLAC formation; ECLAC's focus on the environment and development; gender equality and social justice; academia and the UN; lack of accountability and poor intergovernmental structure at the UN; UN bilateral and multilateral experience; efficacy of past and current Secretary Generals
Collection Name: United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP)
Subjects: Foreign ministers--Guatemala; Women--Government policy--Latin America; Women--Government policy--Caribbean Area; Environmental policy--Latin America; Social justice--Economic aspects--Latin America; Central America Economic integration; Latin America Economic policy; Rosenthal, Gert; United Nations Officials and employees; United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; United Nations History; Permanent Secretariat of the General Treaty for Central American Economic Integration; Group of 77
Format: oral histories; sound recordings
Genre: Interviews
Date: 2001

Note (Biographical): Foreign minister, Guatemala
Note: Interviewed by Thomas G. Weiss on January 3, 2001
Note (Provenance): Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Gift, 2009
Language: English
Library Location: Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Catalog Record: 13684954
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-z8yg-5e04
Related URLs: Available digital content for this interview.