74 Notable alumni of
University of Costa Rica
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The University of Costa Rica is 962nd in the world, 31st in Latin America, and 1st in Costa Rica by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 74 notable alumni from the University of Costa Rica sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ben Fogle
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- writertelevision directorexplorertelevision presenterbroadcaster
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Benjamin Myer Fogle, is an English broadcaster, writer and adventurer, best known for his presenting roles with British television channels Channel 5, BBC and ITV.
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Carlos Andrés Pérez
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- politician
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Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez also known as CAP and often referred to as El Gocho (due to his Andean origins), was a Venezuelan politician and the president of Venezuela from 12 March 1974 to 12 March 1979 and again from 2 February 1989 to 21 May 1993. He was one of the founders of Acción Democrática, the dominant political party in Venezuela during the second half of the twentieth century.
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Marilo Montero
- Enrolled in the University of Costa Rica
- Studied in 1985-1990
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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María Dolores Leonor "Mariló" Montero Abárzuza, is a Spanish journalist and television presenter. She was a presenter of La mañana de La 1 of TVE from 2009 to 2016.
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Carlos Alvarado Quesada
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- journalistwriterinternational forum participant
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Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada is a Costa Rican politician, writer, journalist, and political scientist who served as the 48th president of Costa Rica from 8 May 2018 to 8 May 2022. A member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC), Alvarado previously served as Minister of Labor and Social Security during the presidency of Luis Guillermo Solís.
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Óscar Arias Sánchez
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- politician
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Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010.
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Rodrigo Chaves
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- economistcivil servantpoliticianinternational forum participant
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Rodrigo Alberto de Jesús Chaves Robles is a Costa Rican politician and economist who has served as the 49th and current President of Costa Rica since May 2022. He was previously Minister of Finance from 2019 to 2020 during the presidency of Carlos Alvarado Quesada.
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Laura Chinchilla
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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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Laura Chinchilla Miranda is a Costa Rican political scientist and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's two Vice-Presidents and his administration's Minister of Justice. She was the governing PLN candidate for president in the 2010 general election, where she won with 46.76% of the vote on 7 February. She was the eighth woman president of a Latin American country and the first woman to become President of Costa Rica. She was sworn in as President of Costa Rica on 8 May 2010.
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Luis Guillermo Solís
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- historianpoliticianuniversity teacherdiplomat
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Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera is a Costa Rican politician and educator who was the 47th President of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2018. He is a member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC).
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Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría
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- politicianlawyereconomist
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Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría is a Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 1998 to 2002. He was minister of planning from 1968 to 1970 and minister of the presidency in 1970 during the administration of Jose Joaquin Trejos Fernandez (1966 - 1970); member of the board of the Costa Rican Central Bank from 1966 to 1969; congressman from 1990 to 1993, serving as president of the Legislative Assembly during the 1991 to 1992 period; and was elected Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) in 2004. He voluntarily stepped down from this post to return to his country to face allegations of financial wrongdoing during his presidential tenure in Costa Rica. On April 27 of 2011 he was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but this ruling was later reversed in a December 2012 decision by an appeals court, which found him innocent of all charges.
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Epsy Campbell Barr
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- economistpolitician
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Epsy Alejandra Campbell Barr is a Costa Rican politician and economist who served as the Vice-president of Costa Rica from 8 May 2018 to 8 May 2022. She is the first woman of African descent to be vice president in Costa Rica and in Latin America.
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Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier
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- politicianlawyer
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Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier was President of Costa Rica from 1990 to 1994. He was the presidential candidate of the Social Christian Unity Party for the national elections held in February 2010, but resigned his candidacy on 5 October 2009, when he was sentenced to five years in prison for two counts of corruption.
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Luis Alberto Monge
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- politiciandiplomat
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Luis Alberto Monge Álvarez was the President of Costa Rica from 1982 to 1986. He also served as Costa Rica's first Ambassador to Israel from 1963 until 1966.
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Rodrigo Carazo Odio
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- economistpolitician
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Rodrigo José Ramón Francisco de Jesús Carazo Odio served as President of Costa Rica from 8 May 1978 to 8 May 1982.
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Daniel Oduber Quirós
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- lawyerwriterpoliticiandiplomat
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Porfirio Ricardo José Luis Daniel Oduber Quirós was a Costa Rican politician, lawyer, philosopher, poet, and essayist. He served as the President of Costa Rica from 1974 to 1978. He is credited with the creation of the Sistema Nacional de Radio y Televisión and the Universidad Estatal a Distancia.
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Rebeca Grynspan
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- lawyereconomistinternational forum participantpolitician
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Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis is a Costa Rican economist who has been serving as Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021.
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Julieta Castellanos
- Enrolled in the University of Costa Rica
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in sociology
- Occupations
- writeracademicprofessor
- Biography
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Julieta Castellanos is a Honduran sociologist and the dean of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) since 2009. Castellanos is known for campaigning against violence in Honduras, focusing on both drug cartels and police corruption. She has advocated for both judicial and police reform. Castellanos founded the Observatorio de la Violencia (Violence Observatory) at UNAH in 2004, a center that analyzes crime statistics in Honduras. She was also a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was tasked with clarifying the facts related to the 2009 coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
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Antonio Álvarez Desanti
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- politicianlawyer
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Antonio Álvarez Desanti is a Costa Rican politician, lawyer and businessman who has served twice as President of the Legislative Assembly (1995-1996 and 2016). He was National Liberation Party candidate for the 2018 Costa Rican general election.
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Carmen Naranjo
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- diplomatpoliticianwriter
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Carmen Naranjo Coto was a Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist. She was a recipient of the Aquileo J. Echeverría Award.
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Claudia Dobles Camargo
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- politicianarchitect
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Claudia Vanessa Dobles Camargo is a Costa Rican architect and urban planner. Dobles, the wife of President Carlos Alvarado Quesada, served as the First Lady of Costa Rica from 2018 to 2022. She is the first person from San Carlos to hold the position of first lady.
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Johnny Araya Monge
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- politician
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Johnny Francisco Araya Monge is a Costa Rican politician. He was the mayor of the country's capital San José from 1998 to 2013 and again since 2016. He was also the co-president of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) from 2010 to 2013. He is a member of the National Liberation Party (PLN) and was a presidential candidate in the 2014 election.
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Rodolfo Piza
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- judgelawyer
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Rodolfo Piza Rocafort is a Costa Rican politician and lawyer. He served as executive president of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund during the administration of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (PUSC), and later served as justice of the Supreme Court of Justice.
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Sandra Cauffman
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- electrical engineerphysicist
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Sandra Cauffman is a Costa Rican-American (born in Costa Rica) specialist in electrical engineering and physics. She is known for her work at NASA in different projects. Her profile has been highlighted by UN Women for being a positive example for women, especially, youth and children. Cauffman worked for 25 years at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD in missions such as the mission to Mars MAVEN, and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-R. She is currently the Deputy Director of the Astrophysics Division within the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. She served as the Deputy Director for the Earth Science Division from May 2016 - October 2021. She served as Acting Director in the Earth Science Division from February 2019 to June 2020. Cauffman started as a contractor with NASA on February 1, 1988, and became a NASA employee February 11, 1991. Cauffman is the first Costa Rican woman to lead a Mars-related mission.
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José Joaquín Trejos Fernández
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- politician
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José Joaquín Antonio Trejos Fernández was 35th President of Costa Rica from 1966 to 1970. His parents were Juan Trejos Quirós and Emilia Fernández Aguilar. As a student he obtained degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of Costa Rica. During Mario Echandi's administration he was part of Costa Rica's delegation in the United Nations. Trejos defeated Daniel Oduber in the election that secured him the presidency. Trejos died on 10 February 2010. In the months before his death he began to have problems, when he had an accident in December 2009.
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Juan Diego Castro
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- politicianlawyer
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Juan Diego Castro Fernández is a Costa Rican lawyer and politician, former Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Costa Rica. Castro is a Defense lawyer who studied Law and Criminal science at the University of Costa Rica and has a Doctorate degree in Mediation from Universidad La Salle. Castro was Minister of Public Safety between 1994 and 1997 during the presidency of José María Figueres (PLN). He became the first cabinet member to receive a Motion of no confidence by the Legislative Assembly when he summoned police forces to fence off Parliament as a means to press for the reform of the Penal Code. Subsequently, Castro resigned as Minister of Safety and was named Minister of Justice. He unsuccessfully ran for the presidency as the nominee of the conservative-leaning National Integration Party in the 2018 Costa Rican general election. Castro has been compared unfavorably to US President Donald Trump and other right-wing antiestablishment and right-wing populist figures.
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Elizabeth Odio Benito
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- writeruniversity teacherlawyereconomistpolitician
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Elizabeth Odio Benito is a lawyer and politician from Costa Rica. She served as President in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 2018 to 2020. She was a Vice-President of the International Criminal Court. She previously served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and in her home country of Costa Rica was twice appointed Justice Minister, later becoming Vice-President of the Republic. Her background is as an academic lawyer, specialising in the administration of justice and human rights, in particular the rights of women.
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Otto Guevara
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- politicianlawyer
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Otto Guevara Guth is a politician in Costa Rica and founder of the Partido Movimiento Libertario (Libertarian Movement Party). He served in the Costa Rican legislature from 1998-2002 and 2014-2018. Guevara is currently the president of the Libertarian Movement Party and has been its candidate for president of Costa Rica in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014.
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José María Villalta Florez-Estrada
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- politicianenvironmentalistlawyer
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José María Villalta Florez-Estrada is a Costa Rican attorney, environmentalist and politician. He was the only representative in the Costa Rican Parliament of the leftist party Frente Amplio (Broad Front) for the period that comprised 2010–2014. Villalta also was the candidate of the Frente Amplio for the presidential elections of 2014 in Costa Rica.
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Josette Altmann- Borbón
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- political scientist
- Biography
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Josette Altmann Borbón is a Costa Rican historian, public figure and politician. She previously served as the First Lady of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998 during the tenure of her ex-husband, former President José María Figueres. In June 2016, Altmann was elected Secretary General of the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (FLACSO), an inter-governmental organization dedicated to researching and teaching of the social sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the first woman to become Secretary General of FLACSO.
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Humberto Brenes
- Occupations
- poker player
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Humberto Brenes is a Costa Rican professional poker player. Brenes currently resides in Miami Lakes, Florida with his wife (Patricia) and three children (José Humberto, Roberto, Jessica).
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Gonzalo Facio Segreda
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Gonzalo Justo Facio Segreda was a Costa Rican lawyer, politician, and diplomat.
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Ibo Bonilla
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- paintersculptorarchitect
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Ibo Bonilla Oconitrillo is an architect, sculptor, mathematician and educator of Costa Rica. He has Costa Rican and Spanish nationality. He is known mainly because of the creation of Bioclimatic Buildings and his Monuments in Public Square.
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Patricia Mora Castellanos
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- sociologistpolitician
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Ana Patricia Mora Castellanos is a Costa Rican sociologist, university professor, and politician.
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Rolando Araya Monge
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- politician
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Rolando Araya Monge is a Costa Rican politician. He is a nephew of former president Luis Alberto Monge.
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Ottón Solís
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- politician
- Biography
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Ottón Solís Fallas is a Costa Rican politician. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Costa Rica in 1976 and gained a master's degree in economics from the University of Manchester in 1978. He is currently serving his second term as congressman, was a founding member of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC for its Spanish initials), and ran as its three-time presidential candidate. As an academic, he has taught at several universities in the United States and Costa Rica.
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Ana Istarú
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- writerpoetactorplaywrightjournalist
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Ana Istarú is a Costa Rican poet, actress, and screenwriter. Best known for her feminist poetry, she has also co-written the screenplay for the movie Caribe (2004).
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Alberto Cañas Escalante
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- diplomatlawyerwriterpoliticianjournalist
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Alberto Cañas Escalante was a politician, writer, intellectual, public servant, and journalist from San José, Costa Rica. He is known as one of the most important figures in the cultural, political, and social life of Costa Rica during the latter half of the twentieth century. The National Library System of Costa Rica credits Cañas with more than 4,773 publications as of 2005.
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Helio Fallas
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- economistpolitician
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Helio Fallas Venegas is a Costa Rica economist and politician. From 2014 to 2018 he served as the vice-president of the country, along with Ana Helena Chacón Echeverría. Fallas' main economic interest is national public policy. He generally opposes free trade and supports public social programs. Fallas has served in three separate presidential administrations.
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Anne Beathe Tvinnereim
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- politicianinternational forum participantpolitical scientist
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Anne Beathe Kristiansen Tvinnereim is a Norwegian politician and diplomat currently serving as the Minister of International Development and Minister of Nordic Cooperation since 2021. A member of the Centre Party, she has served as the party's second deputy leader since 2014.
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Evaristo Coronado
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- association football managerassociation football player
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Evaristo Coronado Salas is considered the best Costa Rican football striker during the 1980s.
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Mary Munive
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- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Mary Denisse Munive Angermüller is a Costa Rican physician and politician who is the Second Vice President of Costa Rica. She assumed office on 8 May 2022.
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Kevin Casas Zamora
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- politicianlawyer
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Kevin Casas-Zamora is a Costa Rican politician, lawyer and political scientist. Casas-Zamora is Secretary General of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, an inter-governmental organization based in Stockholm; and Senior Fellow and former Director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue, a policy research center based in Washington D.C. Prior to that he was Secretary for Political Affairs at the Organization of American States and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He also served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy as well as second Vice President of Costa Rica under Óscar Arias from May 8, 2006 until September 22, 2007. He earned his JD from the University of Costa Rica, his MA from the University of Essex, and his DPhil from the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis, titled “Paying for Democracy in Latin America: Political Finance and State Funding for Parties in Costa Rica and Uruguay,” won the 2004 Jean Blondel PhD Prize from the European Consortium for Political Research for best thesis in politics in Europe and was later developed into a book, under the title "Paying for Democracy." In 2007 Casas-Zamora was selected as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Since 2013, he is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.
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Luis Liberman
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Luis Liberman Ginsburg is a Costa Rican businessman and former Second Vice President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. He was elected in February 2010 on the ticket with President Laura Chinchilla and First Vice President Alfio Piva. Liberman's family moved to Costa Rica from Poland prior to World War II. He is the grandson of the first Mohel of Costa Rica's small Jewish community.
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Luis Fishman Zonzinski
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Luis Fishman Zonzinski is a Costa Rican politician. He was the President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica from 1998 to 1999. Fishman Zonzinski was elected as the Second Vice President of Costa Rica alongside Lineth Saborío Chaverri from 2002–2006, but never formally took office. In 2010, he was the Social Christian Unity Party's candidate for president in the general election.
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José Miguel Corrales Bolaños
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- lawyerpoliticianassociation football playerjudge
- Biography
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José Miguel Corrales Bolaños is a Costa Rican politician. he was the National Liberation Party candidate in the 1998 presidential election, and the New Motherland Party candidate in the 2014 presidential election. From 2005 to 2009 he was the President of Patriotic Union Party and tried to be its presidential candidate, but finally dropped to endorse Humberto Arce. In the 2010 and 2018 presidential elections, he endorsed National Integration Party candidates, but did not run as a candidate himself.
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Rodrigo Arias Sánchez
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Rodrigo Gerardo de Jesús Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican lawyer and politician who has been President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica since 2022. He also served as Minister of the Presidency during the two governments of his brother, Óscar Arias Sánchez, from 1986 to 1990 and 2006 to 2010.
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Welmer Ramos González
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Jesús Welmer Ramos González is a Costa Rican economist, administrator, and politician. He was the minister of economy, industry and commerce and president of the governing board of the Development Banking System between 2014 and 2017 in the Solís Rivera administration and national deputy during the 2018–2022 period.
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Astrid Fischel Volio
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- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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Astrid Fischel Volio is a Costa Rican historian and politician.
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Juan Carlos Mendoza García
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Juan Carlos Mendoza García is a Costa Rican politician and the country's current Ambassador to the United Nations. He was a deputy with the Citizens' Action Party (PAC for its Spanish initials) during the 2010 to 2014 and served as President of the Legislative Assembly from 2011 to 2012.
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Julieta Dobles
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Julieta Dobles Yzaguirre is a Costa Rican poet, writer, and educator. She is a five-time winner of the Aquileo J. Echeverría Award and received the Magón National Prize for Culture in 2013.
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Carlos Ricardo Benavides Jiménez
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- politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
- Biography
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Carlos Ricardo Benavides Jiménez is a Costa Rican lawyer, businessman and politician. He has served as the President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica between 2019 and 2020. He is currently serving as a Deputy of Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica representing the San José Province. Benavides holds a Law degree and public notary from the University of Costa Rica.
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Jorge Rossi Chavarría
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jorge Rossi Chavarría was a Costa Rican politician. He was a lawyer, businessman. He co-founded the National Liberation Party (PLN) with Jose Figueres. He was Vice President of Costa Rica from 1970 to 1974 and representative from 1986 to 1990.
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Marcela Guerrero Campos
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marcela Guerrero Campos is the fourth deputy from San José for the 2014 to 2018 assembly. Guerrero is a member of the Citizens' Action Party and served as their Vice-President.
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Carolina Hidalgo Herrera
- Enrolled in the University of Costa Rica
- Graduated with licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Carolina Hidalgo Herrera is a Costa Rican politician from the Citizen Action Party. She was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 2018 to 2019.
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Pedro Muñoz Fonseca
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- politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
- Biography
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Pedro Miguel Muñoz Fonseca is a Costa Rican lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as president of the Social Christian Unity Party from July 2014 to September 2018.
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Eduardo Ulibarri
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Eduardo Ulibarri Bilbao is a Costa Rican journalist.
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Laura Alfaro Maykall
- Occupations
- politicianprofessoreconomist
- Biography
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Laura Alfaro is an economist, currently the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Her specific areas of interest focus on capital markets, economics, foreign direct investment, globalization, and international finance. From 2010 to 2012, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in the government of President Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica.
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Priscilla Monge
- Occupations
- painterperformance artistvisual artistinstallation artistsculptor
- Biography
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Priscilla Monge is a Costa Rican artist. She is one of the best-known female artists from Central America.
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Carlos Meléndez Chaverri
- Occupations
- diplomathistorianwriteruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Carlos Meléndez Chaverri was a Costa Rican historian. Meléndez was the son of Saturnino Lizano and Chaverri Orfilia Chacon. He married María Lourdes Doubles Umaña, who bore him five children: Silvia María, Lucia, Diego, Alberto and Pablo Meléndez Doubles. He won the Magón National Prize for Culture in 1993.
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Henry Mora Jiménez
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Henry Mora Jiménez is a Costa Rican economist and political activist. Mora is a member of the 2014-2018 Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, serving with the Citizens' Action Party. He was the President of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica from 2014 to 2015.
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Geannina Dinarte Romero
- Occupations
- political scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Carmen Geannina Dinarte Romero is a Costa Rican politician serving as the 30th and current minister of the Presidency of Costa Rica since 2020. A member of the Citizens' Action Party, she served as vice minister of SMEs and Entrepreneurship between 2014 and 2017 and as minister of Economy, Industry and Commerce between 2017 and 2018 in the Solís Rivera administration, and as minister of Labor and Social Security in the Alvarado Quesada administration from 2018 to 2020. Dinarte became the youngest person to hold the Ministry of the Presidency, as well as the third woman and the first person of Guanacastecan origin to do so, when she was appointed by president Carlos Alvarado Quesada in December 2020.
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Giannina Segnini
- Enrolled in the University of Costa Rica
- Studied in 1987
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Giannina Segnini Picado is a Costa Rican journalist recognized for having uncovered two political scandals that led to convictions of former presidents – the ICE-Alcatel and Caja-Fischel cases. She has become a distinguished figure in Latin America for her work in investigative and data journalism.
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Margarita Bolaños Arquín
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Margarita Bolaños Arquín is a Costa Rican politician and anthropologist who was president of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC).
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Ivan Vargas-Blanco
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Víctor Iván Vargas Blanco is Costa Rican plasma and nuclear fusion physicist. He is renowned for his work in plasma physics and nuclear fusion. Currently, as a professor and tenured researcher at the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, he heads the Plasma Laboratory for Fusion Energy and Applications that he founded in 2011.
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Victoria Garrón de Doryan
- Occupations
- politicianwriterteacher
- Biography
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Victoria Garrón de Doryan was a Costa Rican educator and writer most known for serving as Second Vice President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990. She was the first woman to hold the post and during her tenure was acting president of the country over a dozen times. As a writer, she produced numerous biographies of historical Costa Ricans, as well as poetry.
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Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
- Occupations
- civil engineerresearcher
- Biography
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Gerardo Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa is a full professor at the University of Alberta, the director of the university's Center for Earth Observation Sciences, and the director of Tropi-Dry, a research group focusing on land use/policy studies in tropical dry regions of the Americas. His research is related to the study of impacts of land use/cover change on biodiversity loss and habitat fragmentation in tropical dry forest environments.
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Rodrigo Oreamuno Blanco
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 85)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Rodrigo Oreamuno Blanco is a Costa Rican politician and lawyer who was First Vice President of Costa Rica between 1994 and 1998, serving under president José María Figueres. In the 2018 elections, he endorsed the candidate Carlos Alvarado Quesada of the Citizens' Action Party.
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Roxana Pinto
- Occupations
- novelistessayistpoet
- Biography
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Roxana Pinto Lopez is a Costa Rican poet, novelist and essayist.
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Julián Monge-Nájera
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Julián Monge-Nájera (born June 6, 1960, in San José is a Costa Rican ecologist, scientific editor, educator and photographer. He has done research with the following institutions: Universidad de Costa Rica, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and Universidad Estatal a Distancia. His scientific work has been featured by The New York Times; National Geographic Magazine; the BBC; Wired; IFLoveScience; The Independent (London) and The Reader's Digest, among others. He is a member of the Expert Panel that sets the Environmental Doomsday Clock; Onychophora Curator in the Encyclopedia of Life; and Team Member of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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Alice L. Pérez Sánchez
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Alice L. Pérez Sánchez was the Vice-dean of Research at the University of Costa Rica between 2012 and 2016. Pérez has a degree in chemistry (1989) from the University of Costa Rica, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is a professor in the chemistry department at the University of Costa Rica, and researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones en Productos Naturales, CIPRONA. She was director of CIPRONA from 2002 to 2010, and of the doctoral science program at the same university from 2009 to 2012. Her scientific work focuses on the synthesis of organic anti-parasitic and anti-cancer chemicals.
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Montserrat Sagot
- Occupations
- university teacherwomen's rights activist
- Biography
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Montserrat Sagot Rodríguez is a Costa Rican sociologist especially known for her work on violence against women and girls. She was a pioneer in research on femicide in Central America. In 2010, she published the first research on femicide in Costa Rica.
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Jorge Antonio Salas Bonilla
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jorge Antonio Salas Bonilla is a Costa Rican lawyer and politician. He was mayor of Tibás between 2007 and 2011.
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Percy Rodríguez
- Occupations
- division managerwriter
- Biography
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Percy Kenneth Rodríguez Argüello is a Costa Rican politician, writer, international analyst and diplomat. He was mayor of the Municipality of Tibás for the period 2003-2007.
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Emilia Molina Cruz
- Born in
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Costa Rica - Occupations
- politiciansocial worker
- Biography
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Emilia Molina Cruz is a Costa Rican politician, social worker, and entrepreneur. She was a deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica for the 2014–2018 term.
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Armando Aráuz Aguilar
- Years
- 1922-2003 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Armando Aráuz Aguilar was a Costa Rican lawyer and politician who served as Second Vice President of Costa Rica between 1982 and 1986, serving under president Luis Alberto Monge. He was also a Deputy in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica between 1966 and 1970 and again between 1979 and 1982. He was a law professor at the University of Costa Rica. He died of a heart attack.
