The Ambassador of Costa Rica, HE Pilar Saborio de Rocafort, addressed the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council last night in central London.
Costa Rica is renowned at the 'happiest country in the world' following a top raking by the Happy Planet Index. Costa Rica is an active member of the international community and, in 1983, claimed it was for neutrality. Due to certain powerful constituencies favouring its methods, it has a weight in world affairs far beyond its size. The country lobbied aggressively for the establishment of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and became the first nation to recognize the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Human Rights Court, based in San Jose.
HE Pilar Saborio de Rocafort, Ambassador of Costa Rica
Was born in Limón, on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica, in 1960. She holds a BA in International Relations/Geography from the University of Miami, a MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge, where she also undertook research towards her PhD on The Transnational Networks of Latin American Elites in South Florida. Her professional career includes working in development projects supported by USAID in Central America, the Costa Rican Investment & Development Agency, and INCAE: the Harvard backed Central American Institute for Business Administration. Dean of the Latin American Ambassadors in London, she is also the Ambassador of Costa Rica to Iceland and Ireland. She speaks Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.