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Christiana Figueres
Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (born August 7, 1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat. She was appointed executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on May 17, 2010, succeeding Yvo de Boer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Abbreviations )〕 Figueres had been a member of the Costa Rican negotiating team since 1995, involved in both UNFCCC〔http://cdm.unfccc.int/contest/09/cl09_judges.pdf〕 and Kyoto Protocol〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kyoto Protocol )〕 negotiations. She has contributed to the design of key climate change instruments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Christiana Figueres – Design of the Climate Regime )〕 She is a prime promoter of Latin America’s active participation in the Convention,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Christiana Figueres – Latin America )〕 a frequent public speaker,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Key Issues of the Post-2012 Climate Change Framework" Global Forum on Sustainable Development )〕 and a widely published author.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Christiana Figueres )〕
==Early life==
Figueres was born in San José, Costa Rica. Her father, José Figueres Ferrer, was President of Costa Rica three times. Figueres’ mother, Karen Olsen Beck, served as Costa Rican Ambassador to Israel in 1982 and was a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1990–1994. The couple had four children. Figueres' older brother José Figueres Olsen, was also President of Costa Rica (1994–1998).
Growing up in La Lucha, Figueres attended the local Cecilia Orlich grammar school. She moved to the German Humboldt Schule in the capital and later graduated from Lincoln High School. She travelled to England for a year of A Level studies before entering Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.. As part of her studies in anthropology, she lived in Bribri, Talamanca, a remote indigenous village in the Southeastern plateau of Costa Rica for one year, designing a culturally-sensitive literacy program which was used by the Ministry of Education for several years.
Figueres joined botanist Dr. Russell Seibert to improve nutritional conditions in Western Samoa using highly nutritious plants. She then went to the London School of Economics for a master’s degree in social anthropology and graduated in 1981. She met her husband, Konrad von Ritter, in London during this time.
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