Rebeca Grynspan

Rebeca Grynspan
Official portrait, 2024
Secretary-General of UNCTAD
Incumbent
Assumed office 13 September 2021
Preceded by	Mukhisa Kituyi
Secretary-General of the Ibero-American General Secretariat
In office 1 April 2014 – 10 September 2021
Preceded by	Enrique Iglesias
Succeeded by	Andrés Allamand (designated)
Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
In office 1 February 2010 – 1 April 2014
Preceded by	Ad Melkert
Succeeded by	Maria Eugenia Casar
Second Vice President of Costa Rica
In office 8 May 1994 – 8 May 1998
President	José María Figueres
Preceded by	Arnoldo López Echandi
Succeeded by	Elizabeth Odio Benito
Personal details
Born	(1955-12-14) 14 December 1955 (age 68) San José, Costa Rica
Political party	National Liberation Party
Children	2
Alma mater	University of Costa Rica University of Sussex

Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis (born 14 December 1955) is a Costa Rican economist who has been serving as Secretary-General of the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021.

Grynspan previously served as Ibero-American Secretary General (2014–2021) and as a UN Under-Secretary-General^[1] and the Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (2010–2014). She previously served as Director of UNDP's Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, appointed to the position by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in December 2005.^[2] She was the Vice President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998.