Loro Horta

Loro Horta (2016)

Loro Horta (* 1977 in Mozambique , full name: Maupe Lorosae da Silva Horta ) is an East Timorese diplomat. He has been East Timor’s Ambassador to Cuba since 2016 .

Career

Loro Horta is the son of the politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate José Ramos-Horta and the Attorney General Ana Pessoa Pinto and has three siblings. His mother lived in exile in Mozambique during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975-1999), where she studied law and became a judge before returning to liberated East Timor. Loro Horta therefore lived in Africa for 23 years. Loro's grandfather was the political activist Francisco Horta .

He studied at the US Naval Postgraduate School of the United States National Defense University (Master), the People's Liberation Army National Defense University in Beijing , the Central School of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, the University of Sydney (Bachelor) and the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (Master of Science). His areas of expertise are Chinese Defense and Security Diplomacy, China's Relations with Developing Countries, especially Lusophone Countries, China and Central Asia, and Politics and Society in East Timor.

Initially, Horta was National UN Project Manager for Security Sector Reform in East Timor, then Senior Adviser for Defense and Security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of East Timor and most recently advisor to the United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA), for which he lived for a time in Turkmenistan . He also published articles at Nanyang Technological University. On February 11, 2016, Horta was appointed East Timor’s Ambassador to Cuba.

Horta authored several articles in numerous magazines and newspapers on foreign and security policy. He has also won several prizes for his research on security issues in Asia. He was regularly interviewed by international media.

Publications (selection)

• China's Ambitious African Railways Plan: Reviving Imperial Dreams? (2014)
• Central Asia: China Opens a New Silk Road (2013)
• Timor-Leste: Finally Getting it Right? (2013)
• Timor-Leste and ASEAN: Doors Closing for Dili's Membership? (2013)
• China's Economic Engagement in Africa: Changing Approach in Mozambique (2012)
• The Eagle and the Dragon in the Land of Sandalwood: US and China Build Soft Power in Timor-Leste (2011)
• The Dragon and the Anaconda: China, Brazil and the Power Balance in the Americas (2009)
• Love-Hate Relationship: Australia, Timor and a Rising China (2009)
• Steel Sharks: China's Growing Submarine Fleet (2008)
• South America's Emerging Arms Race: Big Power Links? (2008)
• The Changing Nature of Chinese Business in Africa: The Case of Cape Verde (2008)
• The PLAN Reaches the Atlantic: Assessing the Chinese Navy's Recent Naval Exercises (2007)
• Timor-Leste - The Dragon's Newest Friend (2007) (PDF file; 100 kB)
• Why Shoot It Down Now? Understanding China's Missile Firing into Outer Space (2007)
• The West Papua Issue: A View from Timor-Leste (2006)

See also

• Cuban East Timorese Relations

Web links

• Publications by Loro Horta at RSiS

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Facebook presence of the President of East Timor: Prezidente Repúblika Taur Matan Ruak fó pose ba Emabixadores , February 11, 2016 , accessed on February 16, 2016.
2. ↑ Loro Horta: China's Ambitious African Railways Plan: Reviving Imperial Dreams? , March 28, 2014 , accessed February 11, 2016.
3. ^ ^{A b c d} S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSiS), Nanyang Technological University: Loro Horta , as of May 19, 2015 , accessed on February 11, 2016.
4. ↑ Loro Horta: Central Asia: China Opens a New Silk Road , October 9, 2013 , accessed February 11, 2016.