Background
An Italian native, Costa was born on June 16, 1941. He holds a:
- Degree in political science from the University of Turin (1963);
- Degree in mathematical economics from the Moscow State University (1967); and
- Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley (1971).
His career history is as follows:
- 1969 to 1983: Senior economist in the United Nations Department of International Economics and Social Affairs.
- 1983 to 1987: Under-Secretary-General at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
- 1987 to 1992: Director-General for Economics and Finance at the European Commission.
- 1992 to 2002: Secretary-General of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
- 2002 to 2010: Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV).
Read more about this topic: Antonio Maria Costa
Famous quotes containing the word background:
“In the true sense one’s native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn’t know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)