Christiana Figueres
Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy negotiations. She was appointed Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in July 2010, six months after the failed COP15 in Copenhagen. During the next six years she worked to rebuild the global climate change negotiating process, leading to the 2015 Paris Agreement, widely recognized as a historic achievement.
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- Born in
- San José
- Educated at
- London School of Economics and Political ScienceSwarthmore College
- Awards
- 🏆 honorary doctorate of Concordia University🏆 Dan David Prize🏆 Knight of the Legion of Honour🏆 Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany🏆 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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1956
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