# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rafael-ramirez
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:23:01.964Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rafael-ramirez"
name: "Rafael Ramírez"
slug: "rafael-ramirez"
description: "Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño is a Venezuelan engineer, politician, and diplomat. He joined the board of Venezuelan state-owned petroleum company PDVSA in 2002 and served as company president from 2004 to 2014. He also served as Venezuela's Minister of Energy from 2002 to 2014. He was the longest-serving cabinet member under President Hugo Chávez. In 2014, he briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and then subsequently served as Venezuela's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Ramirez was fired as UN representative by Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro the evening of November 28, 2017. He confirmed he had \"resigned\" at the request of Maduro on December 4, 2017."
tagline: "Venezuelan politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rafael_Ram%C3%ADrez%2C_presidente_de_PDVSA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1963-08-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.29
  momentum:             2.990654205607477
  historical:           8.123978666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Ram%C3%ADrez"
    title: "Rafael Ramírez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "رافاييل راميريز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B2_(%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84)"
    title: "رافاييل راميريز (رجال اعمال)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Ram%C3%ADrez_(Politiker)"
    title: "Rafael Ramírez (Politiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Ram%C3%ADrez_(politician)"
    title: "Rafael Ramírez (politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Ram%C3%ADrez_Carre%C3%B1o"
    title: "Rafael Ramírez Carreño"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "رافائل رامیرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Ram%C3%ADrez"
    title: "Rafael Ramírez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Ram%C3%ADrez"
    title: "Rafael Ramírez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2127006"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump