Rebeca Grynspan

Rebeca Grynspan Mayufis (born 14 December 1955) is a Costa Rican economist and politician who has been the Secretary-General of the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) since 13 September 2021. She was the Vice President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998.

Grynspan was the Ibero-American Secretary General from 2014 to 2021 and the UN Under-Secretary-General and the Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2010 to 2014. 

On 8 October 2025, Grynspan was nominated by Costa Rican president Rodrigo Chaves to become the next Secretary-General of the United Nations upon the end of António Guterres' tenure in 2026.

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