Jose María Figueres Olsen

Jose Maria Figueres

José María Figueres Olsen (born December 24, 1954 in San José , Costa Rica ) is a Costa Rican politician from the Partido Liberación Nacional (PLN).

Life

Figueres was President of Costa Rica from May 8, 1994 to May 8, 1998. He is the son of former President José Figueres Ferrer and diplomat Karen Olsen Beck . From 1979 to 2000 he was married to Josette Altmann Borbón .

In October 2004, José María Figueres attracted attention by resigning as CEO and executive director of the World Economic Forum for undeclared receipt of more than $900,000 in consulting fees from French telecommunications company Alcatel . Transparency International drew attention to this incident in its 2006 Global Corruption Report .

honors

• Kew Gardens Annual Awards, 1995
• Botanical Research Institute Texas, 1996
• State Botanical Garden, Missouri, 1996
• First recipient of the Global Prize from the World Bank's Global Environmental Fund for leadership and efforts for the environment, 1998
• Liberty Prize from the Max Schmidheiny Foundation and St Gallen University in Switzerland , 1998
• Award of the Climate Institute, Washington DC, 1998
• Order of José Matías Delgado Grand Silver Cross from the Republic of El Salvador, 1999
• Sustainability Award in Switzerland, 2003

itemizations

1. ^ ^{a b c} José María Figueres Olsen. In: CIDOB – Barcelona Center For International Affairs. January 1, 2013 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ CEO resigns . In: World Economic Forum .
3. ↑ ch/eng/wef-director-resigns-over-undeclared-fees/4171240 WEF-director-resigns-over-undeclared-fees . In: SWI swissinfo.ch .
4. ↑ Global Corruption Report 2006 - Transparency International, page 147 . In: Global Corruption Report 2006 - Transparency International .

predecessor	government office	successor
Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier	President of Costa Rica May 8, 1994 – May 8, 1998	Miguel Angel Rodriguez Echeverria