DIPLOMAT

Christiana Figueres

1956 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christiana Figueres has received more than 2,632,742 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Christiana Figueres is the 52nd most popular diplomat (up from 61st in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Costa Rica (up from 15th in 2019) and the most popular Costa Rican Diplomat.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Christiana Figueres by language

Over the past year Christiana Figueres has had the most page views in the with 652,617 views, followed by Spanish (255,364), and French (81,484). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swahili (3,388.24%), Spanish (144.22%), and Urdu (136.59%)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Christiana Figueres ranks 52 out of 90. Before her are Victoria Nuland, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Roger Casement, Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein, Damião de Góis, and Saburō Kurusu. After her are Ángel Sanz Briz, Selahattin Ülkümen, Adam von Trott zu Solz, Jules Cambon, Ambrogio Contarini, and Ernest Mason Satow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Christiana Figueres ranks 157. Before her are Paul Young, Andrius Kubilius, Stefan Johansson, Jens Fink-Jensen, Zinaida Greceanîi, and Herbert Grönemeyer. After her are Hou Yu-ih, Azmi Bishara, Franz Tost, Anil Kapoor, Douglas Preston, and Nikolai Noskov.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, Christiana Figueres ranks 6 out of 134. Before her are Óscar Arias (1940), Chavela Vargas (1919), Keylor Navas (1986), Felicia Montealegre Bernstein (1922), and Laura Chinchilla (1959). After her are Abel Pacheco (1933), Adolfo Díaz (1875), Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Rodrigo Chaves Robles (1961), Giannina Facio (1955), and Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Costa Rica

Among diplomats born in Costa Rica, Christiana Figueres ranks 1. 

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