Christiana Figueres, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Christiana Figueres

Costa Rican politician

Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1956

Place of Birth: San José, San José Province, Costa Rica

Profession: politician, economist, diplomat

Nationality: Costa Rica

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (born 7 August 1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat with 35 years of experience in high level national and international policy and multilateral negotiations.
She was appointed Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in July 2010, six months after the failed COP15 in Copenhagen.
During the next six years she dedicated herself to rebuilding the global climate change negotiating process based on fairness, transparency and collaboration, leading to the 2015 Paris Agreement, widely recognized as a historical achievement.
Over the years she has worked in the fields of climate change, sustainable development, energy, land use, technical and financial cooperation.
She is a frequent public speaker and widely published author.
She is the mother of two young women, and speaks Spanish, English, and German.