Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF COSTA RICA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

 

Jorge Urbina, the new Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations, today presented his credentials to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Urbina was a Programme Coordinator at the International Centre for Human Development, San José, Costa Rica (1998 to 2006). 

Before that, he served as a permanent consultant at the Programme for Democratic Governance in Central America, United Nations Development (1993 to 1998), and held the post of Associate Researcher at Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales in Montes de Oca, Costa Rica (1990 to 1993).  During that same three-year period, he was also a professor at the International Affairs School of Universidad Nacional in Heredia, Costa Rica.

Mr. Urbina was Costa Rica’s Minister of Information from 1989 to 1990, and the Executive President of the National Institute for Municipal Counselling and Promotion from 1986 to 1990.  Prior to that, he was Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs for two years (1984 to 1986), and served as the country’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1982 to 1984. 

From 1970 to 1982, he was a Professor at the School of Law and the School of Political Science of Universidad de Costa Rica, in San José.  He received a master in law degree from the University of Costa Rica in 1973, and obtained a doctorate in law from the Université de Bordeaux, France, in 1977. 

Mr. Urbina is a member of Costa Rica’s Bar Association, the Central American Association of Cículo de Copán and the Centro de Estudios Democráticos de América Latina. 

Born on 2 May 1946, he is married with two children.

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