Enrique Iglesias (politician)
Enrique Valentín Iglesias García [ enˈrike iˈɣlesi̯as ] (born March 30, 1930 in Arancedo ) is a Uruguayan economist and politician of Spanish origin.
Biography and career
Iglesias was born in Asturias , Spain in 1931 . In 1934 his family emigrated to Uruguay. Iglesias, who in the meantime received Uruguayan citizenship, successfully completed an economics and administration degree in Montevideo. He then deepened his studies in the USA and France. From 1952 to 1967 he lectured at the Instituto de Estudios Económicos of the Chair of Economic Development at the University of Montevideo. He was also the technical director of the Oficina Nacional de Planeamiento del Uruguay from 1961 to 1965 .
Iglesias, who belongs to the Partido Nacional , was then president of the Banco Central del Uruguay from 1967 to 1968 . He also held the position of Executive Secretary in the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL) from 1972 to 1985 . From 1985 to 1988 he was Foreign Minister of Uruguay and from 1988 to 2005 he was President of the Inter-American Development Bank . Since 2005 he has been Secretary General of the Ibero-American Alliance .
Awards
- Prince of Asturias Prize
- Favorite Son of Asturias
- Favorite Son from Oviedo , Spain
- Orden de Rio Branco , Brazil
- Grand Cross , Brazil
- Grand Cross in silver, Consejo del Orden Nacional by Juan Mora Fernández , Costa Rica
- Member of the French Legion of Honor
- Grand Cross of the Order de Isabel la Católica , Spain
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , France
- Notre Dame Prize awarded by the University of Notre Dame in South Bend , Indiana , USA
- International Order of Merit , awarded by the City of New Orleans , USA
- Order of the Golden Fleece , Spain
Others
- Iglesias headed the working group set up by Kofi Annan to reform the United Nations .
- Iglesias is a member of the Club of Rome .
- Iglesias has two nationalities: he has both a Uruguayan and a Spanish passport.
literature
- Enrique V. Iglesias , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/2006 of November 4, 2006, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ CURRICULUM VITAE DE ENRIQUE IGLESIAS , accessed on February 11, 2014 (PDF)
- ↑ Autoridades Económicas at www.fcs.edu.uy, accessed on February 11, 2014 (XLS)
- ↑ "Internan a Enrique Iglesias - Reservado" from February 20, 2011 (Spanish), accessed on February 11, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Iglesias, Enrique |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Iglesias García, Enrique Valentín |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan politician, General Secretary of the Ibero-American Alliance |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arancedo |