Rogelio Pfirter
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Rogelio Pfirter is an Argentinian
diplomat. He was the Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) from 2002 to 2010. Pfirter was born in Santa Fe, Argentina, on 25 August 1948. He graduated as a lawyer from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina). He is married to Isabel Serantes Braun.
In 2002, Pfirter was unanimously elected the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, The Netherlands. He was elected for a second term in 2006. Pfirter’s tenure was praised as a time of consolidation and strengthening of the OPCW after the controversial departure of his predecessor José Bustani. Pfirter gathered support for chemical weapons destruction and as a manager he succeeded in administering the Secretariat with zero nominal growth (ZNG) for four years in a row.
After retiring in 2010, he became a member of the Global Council on Weapons of Mass Destruction at the World Economic Forum
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as well as Germany; Officier of the Legion of Hounour from France and Commandeur of the Order of Orange-Nassau
from the Netherlands.
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
diplomat. He was the Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) from 2002 to 2010. Pfirter was born in Santa Fe, Argentina, on 25 August 1948. He graduated as a lawyer from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Argentina). He is married to Isabel Serantes Braun.
Professional Career
During his diplomatic career, Pfirter held various positions at the Argentinian Foreign Ministry. In 1992 he was promoted to the rank of Ambassador and in the same year he became the Director of the Argentine-Brazilian Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC) and the Director of the Argentine Space Agency (CONAE). He was subsequently appointed Undersecretary for Foreign Policy at the Argentine MFA. He was the Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1995 to 2000.In 2002, Pfirter was unanimously elected the Director-General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, The Netherlands. He was elected for a second term in 2006. Pfirter’s tenure was praised as a time of consolidation and strengthening of the OPCW after the controversial departure of his predecessor José Bustani. Pfirter gathered support for chemical weapons destruction and as a manager he succeeded in administering the Secretariat with zero nominal growth (ZNG) for four years in a row.
After retiring in 2010, he became a member of the Global Council on Weapons of Mass Destruction at the World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
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Awards
Pfirter has received a number of international awards including Grand Cross of the Orden of Merit from ChileOrder of the Merit of Chile
The Order of the Merit of Chile is a Chilean military decoration and was created in 1929. Succeeding the Medal of the Merit, it was created during the term of the President Germán Riesco through the Minister of War decree No. 1350 on September 4, 1906...
as well as Germany; Officier of the Legion of Hounour from France and Commandeur of the Order of Orange-Nassau
Order of Orange-Nassau
The Order of Orange-Nassau is a military and civil order of the Netherlands which was created on 4 April 1892 by the Queen regent Emma of the Netherlands, acting on behalf of her under-age daughter Queen Wilhelmina. The Order is a chivalry order open to "everyone who have earned special merits for...
from the Netherlands.