Luis Liberman

Luis Liberman Ginsburg (born 1 August 1946) is a Costa Rican economist, businessman and politician who served as Second Vice President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. A member of the National Liberation Party, he previously worked as general manager of Scotiabank in Costa Rica from 2006 to 2009 and served in the board of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity. He was an economics professor at the University of Costa Rica.

Liberman's family moved to Costa Rica from Poland prior to World War II. He is the grandson of the first Mohel of Costa Rica's small Jewish community.

Politics Liberman was chosen as a vice president to President Laura Chinchilla mainly due to his expertise in economic affairs. He also said that Costa Rica under Chinchilla would be less active in the Middle East and foreign policy would focus more on Latin America while maintaining good relations with Israel, which he described as "excellent" as well as Egypt and other Arab states. He was briefly acting finance minister in 2012.