Oscar de Rojas is the Director of the Financing for Development
Office in the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. This
office is entrusted with all aspects related to the
intergovernmental follow-up of the International Conference held in
Monterrey, Mexico in 2002. Before joining the United Nations in
1999, Mr. de Rojas served for 27 years in the Venezuelan Foreign
Service, attaining the rank of Ambassador. He has held senior-level
posts in his country’s diplomatic missions at the U.N. headquarters
in New York, Geneva, and Paris, as well as in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs itself in Caracas. Mr. de Rojas has master’s
degrees in economics and in international affairs from Columbia
University. He is active in a number of development, human rights
and humanitarian-oriented organizations and was recently named
Consultor to the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and
Peace.