The Most Famous
DIPLOMATS from Costa Rica
This page contains a list of the greatest Costa Rican Diplomats. The pantheon dataset contains 52 Diplomats, 1 of which were born in Costa Rica. This makes Costa Rica the birth place of the 24th most number of Diplomats behind Portugal and Spain.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Costa Rican Diplomats of all time. This list of famous Costa Rican Diplomats is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Christiana Figueres (1956 - )
With an HPI of 46.95, Christiana Figueres is the most famous Costa Rican Diplomat. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (born 7 August 1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy 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 worked to rebuild the global climate change negotiating process, leading to the 2015 Paris Agreement, widely recognized as a historic achievement. Over the years Figueres has worked in the fields of climate change, technical and financial cooperation, energy, land use and sustainable development. In 2016, she was Costa Rica's candidate for the United Nations Secretary General and was an early frontrunner, but decided to withdraw after garnering insufficient support. She is a founder of the Global Optimism group, co-author of The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (2020) along with Tom Rivett-Carnac, and co-host of the popular podcast Outrage and Optimism.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as diplomats born between 1956 and 1956. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living diplomats include Christiana Figueres.
