Alfio Piva

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|name = Alfio Piva Mesén

|image = Alfio Piva Mesén.png

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|01|09|df=y}}

|birth_place = San Jose

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|nationality = Costa Rican

|party = National Liberation Party

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|children = Alfio, Alessandro, Giancarlo

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|alma_mater = Universita degli Studi di Parma

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|profession = Scientist

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|office = First Vice President of Costa Rica

|term_start = {{start date|2010|5|8|df=y}}

|term_end = {{end date|2014|5|8|df=y}}

|president = Laura Chinchilla

|predecessor = Laura Chinchilla

|successor = Helio Fallas Venegas

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Alfio Piva Mesén (born 9 January 1940) is a Costa Rican politician, veterinarian, scientist and environmentalist. He was the First Vice President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014.{{cite news|url=http://www.nacion.com/2010-05-08/ElPais/NotasSecundarias/ElPais2363877.aspx|title=Un científico y un banquero complementan el mandato|publisher=La Nación (Costa Rica)|date=2010-05-07|accessdate=2010-05-09|language=Spanish|archive-date=2010-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100513012848/http://www.nacion.com/2010-05-08/ElPais/NotasSecundarias/ElPais2363877.aspx|url-status=dead}}[http://www.ticotimes.net/daily_paid/dailynewsarchive/2009_10/101309.htm Businessman and environmentalist to accompany Chinchilla on presidential ticket] {{Dead link|date=April 2012|bot=BlevintronBot}} Tico Staff Times October 13, 2009 The Second Vice President during that interval was Luis Liberman.{{cite web|url=http://costaricahoy.info/nacionales/ataques-contra-pac-y-libertarios-en-anuncio-de-vicepresidencias-de-liberacipn-nacional/30528/ |title=Ataques contra PAC y Libertarios en anuncio de Vicepresidencias de Liberación Nacional |publisher=Costa Rica hoy |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122074919/http://costaricahoy.info/nacionales/ataques-contra-pac-y-libertarios-en-anuncio-de-vicepresidencias-de-liberacipn-nacional/30528/ |archivedate=November 22, 2010 }}

Piva obtained a Ph.D. in animal physiology from the University of Milan in Italy and co-founded the Veterinary School of the National University of Costa Rica. In 1995 he won the Prince of Asturias Award in Technical and Scientific Research along with his colleagues from INBio.{{Cite web |url=http://www2.prensalibre.cr/pl/nacional/11375-alfio-piva-y-luis-liberman-para-vicepresidencias.html |title=Alfio Piva y Luis Liberman Para Vicepresidencias |access-date=2010-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016083157/http://www2.prensalibre.cr/pl/nacional/11375-alfio-piva-y-luis-liberman-para-vicepresidencias.html |archive-date=2009-10-16 |url-status=dead}}