Speaker
Jose RAMOS HORTA
- Affliation
- President of Timor-Leste / 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- Session
- Opening Ceremony
Biography
National positions
- Member, Council of State, Advisory Body to the President of the Republic of TIMOR- Leste (2012-)
- Member, National Council on Maritime Boundary Delimitation (2016 - )
- President of the Republic (2007 - 2012)
- Prime Minister, Minister of Defence (2006-2007)
- Senior Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (2002-2006)
- Cabinet Member, United Nations Transition y for East Timor - UNTAET (2000-2002) Minister for Foreign Affairs and Information, in the first Govt proclaimed in December 1975 following Timor-Leste\'s Unilateral Declaration of Independence, International Spokesperson of the Resistance (1975-1999)
International positions, past, current
- President, World Movement for Democracy, HQ Washington, elected July 2020;
- Chair, Scientific Council, of the think-tank TIGER – Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research (www.tiger.edu.pl), Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland, January (2021-2030);
- Board Member, World Leadership Alliance, Madrid (2012 - );
- Member, Global Leadership Foundation, London, UK.
- Member, High Level Board on Mediation, with UN Secretary-General (2017-2019);
- External Advisor to the President of the UN General Assembly, (2017-2018);
- Commissioner, Global Commission on Drug Policy, Geneva, (2017 - ).
- Chair, High Level Independent Panel on UN Peace Operations, appointed by the UN Secretary-General (November 2014 - 2015), UNHQ, NY;
- Co-Chair, Independent Commission on Multilateralism, (2014-2016), International Peace Institute, NY;
- Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Integrated Peace Building Mission in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) (Jan 2013- June 2014)
Major awards
- Nobel Peace Prize (1996)
- Companion of the Order of Australia (2015)
- Ordem de Timor-Leste (2012)
- Ordem Dom Boaventura (2006)
- Ordem De Liberdade, Portugal, (1998)
- Ordem Dom Infante, Portugal (2011)
- Orders from Brazil, Cuba, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde
- Member, Council of State, Advisory Body to the President of the Republic of TIMOR- Leste (2012-)
- Member, National Council on Maritime Boundary Delimitation (2016 - )
- President of the Republic (2007 - 2012)
- Prime Minister, Minister of Defence (2006-2007)
- Senior Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (2002-2006)
- Cabinet Member, United Nations Transition y for East Timor - UNTAET (2000-2002) Minister for Foreign Affairs and Information, in the first Govt proclaimed in December 1975 following Timor-Leste\'s Unilateral Declaration of Independence, International Spokesperson of the Resistance (1975-1999)
International positions, past, current
- President, World Movement for Democracy, HQ Washington, elected July 2020;
- Chair, Scientific Council, of the think-tank TIGER – Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research (www.tiger.edu.pl), Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland, January (2021-2030);
- Board Member, World Leadership Alliance, Madrid (2012 - );
- Member, Global Leadership Foundation, London, UK.
- Member, High Level Board on Mediation, with UN Secretary-General (2017-2019);
- External Advisor to the President of the UN General Assembly, (2017-2018);
- Commissioner, Global Commission on Drug Policy, Geneva, (2017 - ).
- Chair, High Level Independent Panel on UN Peace Operations, appointed by the UN Secretary-General (November 2014 - 2015), UNHQ, NY;
- Co-Chair, Independent Commission on Multilateralism, (2014-2016), International Peace Institute, NY;
- Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Integrated Peace Building Mission in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) (Jan 2013- June 2014)
Major awards
- Nobel Peace Prize (1996)
- Companion of the Order of Australia (2015)
- Ordem de Timor-Leste (2012)
- Ordem Dom Boaventura (2006)
- Ordem De Liberdade, Portugal, (1998)
- Ordem Dom Infante, Portugal (2011)
- Orders from Brazil, Cuba, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde
World Leaders Messages
President of Timor-Leste / 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
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