Manuel Perez-Guerrero ( Spanish: Manuel Pérez Guerrero , September 18, 1911 , Caracas , Venezuela - October 24, 1985 , ibid.) - Venezuelan economist and statesman, Secretary-General of UNCTAD (1969-1974).
| Manuel Perez Guerrero | |||||||
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| Spanish Manuel pérez guerrero | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Raul Prebish | ||||||
| Successor | Gamani Korea | ||||||
| Birth | September 18, 1911 Caracas , Venezuela | ||||||
| Death | October 24, 1985 ( 74) Caracas , Venezuela | ||||||
| Education | Central University of Venezuela University of Paris | ||||||
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Biography
He received higher political science education at the Central University of Venezuela and with a doctorate. Then he graduated from the graduate school in economics at the University of Paris .
- 1937-1938 - employee of the financial and economic department of the League of Nations in Geneva,
- 1940-1942 - Executive Secretary of the Import Commission at the Ministry of Finance of Venezuela,
- 1943 - member of the commission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for post-war development,
- 1943-1945 - a delegate to a number of international economic and financial conferences (Hot Springs, 1943, Bretton Woods - 1944, San Francisco, April-June 1945, etc.),
- 1946-1948 - UN Advisor on Peace and Development,
- February-November 1948 - Minister of Finance of Venezuela, resigned after a military coup on November 24, 1948
Then he worked as Executive Secretary of the UN technical assistance program for developing countries, in 1953-1957. He was forced to live in exile in Cairo, in 1957-1959. - in Tunisia and Morocco.
In 1959 he returned to his homeland and was appointed the first director of the Office for Coordination and Planning (CORDIPLAN) b
- 1963 - Representative of the United Nations Program on Economic and Social Development of Algeria,
- 1963-1967 - Minister of Mining and Hydropower; at this post, created the legal framework for increasing state participation in the industry and the work of the state oil campaign of Venezuela, as well as the work of hydroelectric power stations,
- 1967 - Head of the UN Commission for the Settlement of the Situation in Yemen,
- 1967-1969 - Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations,
- 1969-1974 - Secretary-General of UNCTAD,
- 1974-1979 - Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of Venezuela,
- 1975-1977 - At the same time co-chair of the Conference on Economic Cooperation in Paris, the so-called North-South Conference. As Chairman of the Group of 77, he was from 1977 to 1979. one of the main speakers from developing countries in the negotiations on the creation of a new international economic order,
- 1979-1984 - Advisor to President Louis Herrera Campins on International Economics,
- 1984-1985 - Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of Venezuela.