Haroldo Rodas Melgar
Roger Haroldo Rodas Melgar (born May 29, 1946 in Guatemala City , † June 14, 2020 ibid) was a Guatemalan economist , diplomat and politician .
Life
After schooling, he studied from 1964 to 1971 economics at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala , which he with a licentiate completed. Afterwards he was lecturer and then professor for economic integration and international trade as well as director for applied economics at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala with interruptions until 1980 . He was also Executive Secretary of the Federation of Economists of Central America and Panama from 1979 to 1980 and President of the College of Economists of Guatemala.
He was also a member of the diplomatic service and between June 1974 and June 1976 he was permanent representative at the GATT Secretariat in Geneva and at the European Union in Brussels . During this time, from September 1974 to December 1976, he also completed postgraduate studies at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva, which he completed with a Masters in International Economics.
In January 1977 he became chief economist and head of the Multinational Project for International Trade between Central America , Panama and the Dominican Republic at the Organization of American States (OAS) based in Washington, DC and San José . He held this office until December 1985. From October 1987 to December 1990 he was Secretary General of the Unión de Países Exportadores de Banano (UPEB), a Central and South American cartel of banana exporting states in the form of an international organization based in Panama.
Rodas Melgar then returned to Guatemala and was Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs between January 1991 and June 1992 and was given the rank of Ambassador .
After that, on July 1, 1992 he was appointed regional director of the Central America Development and Integration Support Program (PRADIC) at the Inter-American Development Bank (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo; BID). On March 1, 1993, he became an international expert in the field of international trade negotiations at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and held this position until December 1994. Most recently, he was Secretary General of the Economic Secretariat of the Central American Integration System (SICA) from April 1995 to November 2007 .
On January 14, 2008, he was finally appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs by President Álvaro Colom Caballeros . He held this office until January 2012.
He died of COVID-19 in his apartment in June 2020 .
Publications
- Centroamérica y la Unión Europea. Las Relaciones Comerciales. (pdf; 68 kB) In: Europa América Latina, No. 11, Reports and Analyzes. Rio de Janeiro, 2003, pp. 34-35 , accessed on June 15, 2020 (Spanish, wrong link).
Web links
- Roger Haroldo Rodas Melgar. Guatemalan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, January 17, 2008, archived from the original on December 16, 2008 (Spanish).
- Guatemala: Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments. In: cia.gov. July 17, 2009, archived from the original on July 27, 2009 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Guatemala: Opening Central America for Business. (pdf; 2.1 MB) In: Bloomberg Businessweek . October 29, 2004, archived from the original on November 25, 2004 ; accessed on May 16, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Jessica Gramajo: Excanciller Haroldo Rodas falleció de Covid-19. In: soy502.com. June 15, 2020, accessed June 15, 2020 (Spanish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rodas Melgar, Haroldo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rodas Melgar, Roger Haroldo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Guatemalan politician, diplomat and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guatemala City |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 2020 |
| Place of death | Guatemala City |