Oral history interview with Gert Rosenthal, 2001.

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Oral history interview with Gert Rosenthal, 2001.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768400116

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 Permanente 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.

transcript: 67 p.

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