José Cutileiro
José Pires Cutileiro (born November 20, 1934 in Évora , Portugal ; † May 17, 2020 in Brussels , Belgium ) was a Portuguese diplomat , politician and scholar. He was Secretary General of the Western European Union (WEU) from 1994 to 1999 . From 2001 to 2003 he was special envoy of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia .
Life
Cutileiro studied ethnosociology and received his doctorate in 1965. From 1971 to 1974 he taught at the London School of Economics . From 1977 to 1980 he was Portugal's representative in the Council of Europe . From 1980 to 1983 he was Portuguese ambassador to Mozambique and from 1989 to 1991 Portuguese ambassador to the Republic of South Africa , with the respective second accreditations for states without a Portuguese embassy.
From 1994 to 1999 he was Secretary General of the Western European Union. He was the last independent general secretary of this institution and was replaced by Javier Solana in this office, which was then abolished.
From 2001 to 2003 he was also Special Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia.
As an author for the newspapers "O Independente" and "Expresso" he wrote from 1982 to 1998 under the pseudonym Alfred Barnaby Kotter (ABK). And he has also published two volumes of poetry.
Most recently he was Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton , USA.
Jose Cutileiro died in a hospital in Brussels at the age of 85.
Works (selection)
- A Portuguese Rural Society ("Ricos e pobres no Alentejo. Uma sociedade rural portuguesa"). Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971.
- Visão Global (Global Vision), non-fiction book, 2009.
- Abril e outro transições, (reflections and memories), 2017.
- Inventario (collection of articles, 2014 to 2019), 2020.
source
- Encharta Encyclopedia, 2006.
- https://www.wook.pt/autor/jose-cutileiro/14978
- https://jornaleconomico.sapo.pt/noticias/jose-cutileiro-1934-2020-antropologo-com-alma-no-alentejo-e-diplomata-com-olhos-no-mundo-589690
Individual proof
Web links
- Literature by and about José Cutileiro in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- http://www.ipri.pt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cutileiro, José |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cutileiro, José Pires (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese diplomat, politician, scholar and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Évora , Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th May 2020 |
| Place of death | Brussels , Belgium |