Juan Federer

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Juan W. Federer (* in Chile ) is a former Chilean diplomat, independence activist and diplomat for East Timor .

Career

In 1967 Federer received a Bachelor of Science and in 1973 a Master of Science from the University of Sydney ( Australia ), in 1978 a diploma from the Management Education Institute in Jakarta ( Indonesia ), in 1988 a Master of Economics from the University of Sydney, and in 1991 a diploma from the Ministry Catholic Theological Union in Sydney and a PhD in international relations from Charles Darwin University .

In 1973 Federer first visited East Timor, which at that time was still the colony of Portuguese Timor . At that time he was Honorary Consul of Chile in Indonesia and civil attaché of the embassy in Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia ). Two years later , Indonesia occupied East Timor after declaring itself independent just nine days earlier . 24 years of guerrilla warfare followed. Federer became an advocate for the East Timorese. After leaving Indonesia and settling in Australia, he founded the East Timor International Support Center in Darwin with his East Timorese wife María do Céu in the 1990s . Federer was also Director General for International Relations at the Conselho Nacional de Resistência Maeaner (CNRM). In 1999 Indonesia withdrew from East Timor and in 2002 East Timor was granted independence. During this time, Federer headed the local non-governmental organization Timor Aid.

At times, Federer was the acting general director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from 2006 he was the traveling ambassador (Embaixador Itinerante) of East Timor for Austria , France , Germany , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway and Sweden for one year . In 2006 Federer was also project director of the Center for War / Peace Studies in New York. On January 16, 2008, Federer was appointed East Timor’s Ambassador to UNESCO in Paris by East Timor’s President José Ramos-Horta . In addition to Paris, he now lives in Recife ( Brazil ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Juan Federer: THE UN IN EAST TIMOR - Building Timor Leste, a fragile state , June 6, 2010 , accessed on May 16, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Escavador: Juan Federer W , accessed on May 16, 2020.
  3. ↑ David Wood: Darwin girls' fight to be pres , NTnews, Feb. 7, 2012
  4. ^ Irena Cristalis and Catherine Scott: Independent women: The story of women's activism in East Timor , p. 6.
  5. ↑ UNSW Canberra: Companion to East Timor - The New East Timorese Generation , accessed May 16, 2020.
  6. ↑ Acknowledgments , accessed on May 16, 2020.
  7. ^ Jornal da República: Decree of the President 55/2006 , November 29, 2006
  8. ↑ Pambazuka News: The Failure of East Timor: what to avoid in Ivory Coast , accessed on May 16, 2020th
  9. ^ Jornal da República: Decree of the President No. 3/2008 , accessed on May 16, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Federer, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Federer, Juan W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean diplomat and independence activist for East Timor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Chile