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Bruno Stagno Ugarte of Costa Rica has been named the new executive director of the Security Council Report. He is to begin at the end of July. Stagno was until recently the minister of foreign affairs of Costa Rica, during which the country was a nonpermanent member of the Security Council in 2008-2009. From 2002 to 2006, he was the permanent representative of Costa Rica to the UN. Stagno was also president of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court from 2005 to 2008.

He has a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University; a master’s in public policy from Princeton; and a master’s in political science from the Sorbonne in Paris.

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Bruno Stagno Ugarte of Costa Rica is the new executive director of the Security Council Report.

Stagno replaces Colin Keating, the founding executive director of Security Council Report. Keating, a former New Zealand diplomat, served as legal adviser to the Foreign Ministry and deputy secretary of the ministry responsible for management. He was the New Zealand ambassador to the UN from 1993 to 1996 and served on the Security Council in 1993 and in 1994; he was council president during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, led the council mission to Somalia and chaired the Council Committee on Sanctions Against Iraq. Later, he was appointed Secretary of Justice of New Zealand. From 2000 to 2004, he worked as a partner in legal practice.

The Security Council Report, a nonprofit organization, is a monthly publication providing objective, analytical information on the activities of the United Nations Security Council and its subordinate bodies (www.securitycouncilreport.org). Supplementary reports focus on thematic and structural issues at the council; a news feed on council developments is also available. The report is affiliated with the Center on International Organization in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and began operating in 2002. It was founded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the William and Flora Hewitt Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as well as the governments of Norway and Canada.