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Rodrigo Chaves
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49th president of Costa Rica
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Rodrigo Alberto Chaves is a Costa Rican civil servant, economist, and politician born in Carmen in 1961. He served as the President of the Republic and President of Costa Rica. A member of the Social Democratic Progress Party, he was educated at the University of Costa Rica and Ohio State University, where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy. He has also worked for the World Bank.
Chaves is a published author with works including *REFLEXÕES SOBRE CULTURA E SOCIEDADE*, *How to Think for Yourself*, and *Como Pensar Por Ti Mismo*. He is a Catholic who speaks Spanish as his native language. He stands 1.85 meters tall.
Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- REFLEXÕES SOBRE CULTURA E SOCIEDADE
- How to Think for Yourself
- Como Pensar Por Ti Mismo
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 6
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rodrigo+Chaves">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,947x
- Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega
· 2011 · cited 14,492x
- The Cityscapes Dataset for Semantic Urban Scene Understanding
· 2016 · cited 9,720x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,640x
- InterProScan 5: genome-scale protein function classification
· 2014 · cited 9,043x
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Key facts
- President
- Laura Fernández Delgado
- Preceded by
- Laura Fernández Delgado
- Succeeded by
- Elián Villegas Valverde
- Vice president
- Stephan Brunner (until 2025), Mary Munive
- Born
- Rodrigo Alberto de Jesús Chaves Robles , ( 1961-06-10 ) 10 June 1961 (age 65) , San José, Costa Rica
- Party
- Independent (2023–present)
- Other political affiliations
- PPSD (2020–2023)
- Spouse s
- Monika Hempel Nanne ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1986 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1996 ) , Signe Zeikate ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2015 )
- Alma mater
- University of Costa Rica (no degree), Ohio State University ( BS , MA , PhD )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alberto
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Costa Rica
- Place of birth
- Managua
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- President of Costa Rica
- Educated at
- Ohio State University
- Employer
- World Bank
- Political party
- Social Democratic Progress Party
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Image
- Rodrigo Chaves, discurso posesión (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 1.85
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- date of birth
- 1961-06-10
- Commons category
- Rodrigo Chaves
- P10632
- Rodrigo Chaves
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Encyclopedic overview
Rodrigo Alberto de Jesús Chaves Robles ( Spanish: [roˈðɾiɣo ˈtʃaβes ˈroβles]; born 10 June 1961) is a Costa Rican politician and economist who has served as Minister of the Presidency and Minister of Finance since 2026 and served as the 49th president of Costa Rica from 2022 to 2026. He was previously Minister of Finance from 2019 to 2020 during the presidency of Carlos Alvarado Quesada.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rodrigo Chaves” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.