MEXICO CITY, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Guatemala's former Finance Minister Hugo Beteta assumed on Monday as the new director of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)'s subregional headquarters in Mexico City, a UN press release said
During Oscar Berger's presidency, Beteta served as planning minister from 2004 to 2006, then as finance minister from 2006 to 2008.
He was the first Central American named Secretary of the Inter-American Development Bank in 2007. He also served as alternate governor of the International Monetary Fund and as president of Inter-American Investment Corporation.
He holds a civil engineering degree from Rafael Landivar University and has received Spain's Order Isabella the Catholic for his contribution to the Inter-American Dialogue.
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