Jorge Urbina

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name =Jorge Urbina
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birth_date =Birth date and age|1946|5|2|D=MY

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office =Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Costa Rica
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term_start =October 2006
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Jorge Urbina, born on 2 May 1946, is the Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Costa Rica. He assumed the position in October 2006. He is married with two children.

Education

Urbina received a master in law degree from the University of Costa Rica and a doctorate in law from the University of Bordeaux.

Career

From 1982 to 1984, Urbina was the Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations for Costa Rica. After this appointment, he was Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs for two years from 1984 to 1986. In 1986, Urban then moved to the position of the Executive President of the National Institute for Municipal Counselling and Promotion until 1990; he also served as Costa Rica’s Minister of Information from 1989 to 1990.

From 1990 to 1993, Urban was an Associate Researcher at Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales in Montes de Oca, Costa Rica and also was a professor at the International Affairs School of Universidad Nacional in Heredia, Costa Rica for the same period. After that, he served as a permanent consultant at the Programme for Democratic Governance in Central America, United Nations Development from 1993 to 1998.

Until he was appointed Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Mr. Urbina was a Programme Coordinator at the International Centre for Human Development, San José, Costa Rica from 1998 to 2006.

ee also

*List of Permanent Representatives to the UN

References

* [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/bio3813.doc.htm United Nations Press Release: Biography of Jorge Urbina]