NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BOLIVIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
Press Release
BIO/3162
NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BOLIVIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
19980521 Biographical NoteRoberto Jordán Pando, the new Permanent Representative of Bolivia to the United Nations, presented his credentials today to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has been President of Financial de Consultoria S.R.L., a consulting firm, since 1984.
Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Jordán Pando was Rector of the Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo (1996-1998), a private independent consultant (1991-1995), a consultant at PEMECO Ltd. on investment projects (1993-1995), and a consultant to the special mission on social development in Bolivia of the Inter-American Development Bank. From 1990 to 1991, he was professor at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, where he taught courses on international economic relations and economic structures.
As a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) during 1988 and 1989, Mr. Jordán Pando worked to set up and prepare a programme for the Andean Initiative against Poverty; to draft a document for a project on cooperation with the Colombian agrarian reform programme; to prepare a project for the eradication of poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean; and with respect to a seminar on the economics of poverty in Latin America.
He has also served as a consultant for such bodies as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the Organization of American States (OAS). Among his responsibilities during the early 1970s, he conducted a market study of products from the River Plate Basin and was rapporteur and technical adviser on agrarian reform and rural structure and development in Latin America.
Mr. Jordán Pando began his career in 1955 as Deputy Minister for Rural and Farming Affairs of Bolivia. He subsequently served as Ambassador-delegate to the General Assembly (1956-1957) and to the first United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (1958); and as Minister of Rural and Farming Affairs (1960-1963); head of Bolivia's delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Application of Science and Technology for the Benefit of the Least Developed Countries (1963); and head of delegation to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (1964).
- 2 - Press Release BIO/3162 21 May 1998
Educated at the Universidad Real y Pontifica San Francisco Xavier in Sucre and at the Universidad Mayor San Andrés in La Paz, Mr. Jordán Pando studied economic and social planning, economic development, integrated rural development and pre-investment. His professions include financial auditor, economist, doctor of economics, lawyer, and doctor of laws.
Born on 21 February 1930, Mr. Jordán Pando is married and has five children.
* *** *