Josette Altmann Borbón

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Josette Altmann Borbón (born February 17, 1958 in San José , Costa Rica ) is a Costa Rican historian, former First Lady and, since 2016, Secretary General of the international social science education organization Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales .

Life

Altmann Borbón comes from a prominent Costa Rican family. Her father was Fernando Altmann Ortiz, her mother Marta Eugenia Borbón Zeller.She trained at the Anglo-American School and the Colegio Saint Clare in Cartago , studied for a while at Harvard University and received a degree in history from the Universidad de Costa Rica . On September 1, 1979, she married José María Figueres Olsen , who was President of the country from 1994 to 1998. She has two children with him; the marriage was divorced in 2000. She was initially a member of the Partido Liberación Nacional (PNL), but switched to the Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC) in 2005 .

During her time as First Lady she promoted the improvement of socio-economically particularly weak communities ("Dieciséis Comunidades Prioritarias"). She was the director of the Centro de Desarrollo Solidario , a special program of the Costa Rica Foundation for Sustainable Development. As an author she writes about the political economy of Latin America, the immediate history and the political condition in Costa Rica. As a university professor, she taught at the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences at the University of Costa Rica. She received her doctorate from the University of Leiden for the dissertation Modelos de desarrollo, alianzas políticas e integración latinoamericana.

From 2006 to 2012 she was regional coordinator for international cooperation and director of the Observatorio de Integración Regional Latinoamericana (OIRLA) at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Costa Rica. In 2016, she was unanimously elected by the 18 member states of the FLACSO as Secretary General for the period from 2016 to 2020.

Fonts

Altmann Borbón has published several books, is co-editor and author of numerous academic articles. From 1995 to 1999 she had the weekly column “Punto de Vista” in the magazine La República , and as a publicist she published articles on political and social issues in the newspapers La Nación , La Prensa Libre , Semanario Universidad and Semanario Ojo . Selection:

Editorships and contributions in:

  • Las paradojas de la integración en América Latina y el Caribe. Fundación Carolina / Siglo XXI, Madrid 2008.
  • Integración y Cohesión Social: Análisis desde América Latina e Iberoamérica. FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador 2009.
  • América Latina y el Caribe: Perspectivas de desarrollo y coincidencias para la transformación del Estado. FLACSO, San José, Costa Rica 2011.
  • América Latina y el Caribe: ALBA : ¿Una Nueva Forma de Integración Regional? Teseo / FLACSO, Buenos Aires 2011.
  • Experiencias en la Construcción de Posiciones Comunes en Política Exterior. Antecedentes para Centroamerica. Teseo / FLACSO Buenos Aires 2012.

None of her writings have yet been translated into German.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Esteban Arrieta Arias: PAC designó a candidatos a diputados en asamblea movida. In: La Prensa Libre Online. October 3, 2005, archived from the original on May 23, 2007 ; Retrieved April 19, 2018 (Spanish).
  2. ^ Costa Rica: The Millennium Goals need a caring State. (PDF) In: www.socialwatch.org. Social Watch, August 19, 2005, accessed April 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Primeras Damas de Costa Rica, LII: Doña Josette Altmann Borbón de Figueres Olson. In: tiquicia.org. Archived from the original on September 29, 2013 ; Retrieved April 19, 2018 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ La Dra. Altmann Borbón es la nueva Secretaria General de la FLACSO. In: org.ar. flacso.org.ar, accessed April 19, 2018 (Spanish).
  5. ^ Josette Altmann, ex primera dama, electa Secretaria General de Flacso . In: La Nación , Grupo Nación . June 3, 2016 (Spanish, nacion.com [accessed April 19, 2018]).
  6. ^ Publications by Josette Altmann Borbón . Retrieved April 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Altmann Borbón, Josette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altmann, Josette; Figueres, Josette Altmann de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Costa Rican scientist and former first lady
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , Costa Rica