Enrique Iglesias (1931- ) is secretary-general of The Ibero-American Cooperation Secretariat and was president of the Inter-American Development Bank (1988-2005). From 1972 to 1985, he was executive secretary of ECLAC. He was Uruguay’s minister of external relations, representative to ECLAC, and president of the Central Bank. In 1981, he served as secretary-general of the UN Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy, and in 1986 chairman of the conference that launched the Uruguay Round of Trade Negotiations. He was born in Spain and is a naturalized Uruguayan citizen, who was educated at the University of the Republic of Uruguay. He is also currently the president of the Society of International Development.

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