Biographical notes

E-mail jrh@ramoshorta.com

Current official positions

– President of the Republic, May 2022- May 2027
– Special Envoy of g7+ for Mediation (2025 – )

Past positions

– President of the Republic (2007-2012)
– Prime Minister, Minister of Defence (July 2006 – May 2007)
– Senior Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2001-2006)
Other positions
– Member, UN High Level Board on Mediation (2017-2019)
– Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative, Head of the UN Integrated Peace-Building Mission in Guinea-Bissau (Jan 2013 – June 2014)
– Chair, High Level Independent Panel on UN Peace Operations (2014 – 2015), appointed by UN Secretary-General
– Co-Chair, with former PM of Australia Kevin Rudd, International Commission on Multilateralism, International Peace Institute, (2014-2015), New York.

International Awards

– Nobel Peace Prize (1996)
– American Academy of Achievement
– Highest Orders from Timor-Leste, Australia, Brazil, Cuba, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau among others.

Academic, past and ongoing engagements

– Diploma Exec Leadership, Leaders in Development, Harvard University, 1998
– Certificate, International Institute of Human Rights, 1983, Strasbourg, France
– Certificate, The Hague Academy of International Law, 1983, The Hague, Holland
– Senior Member, International Relations, St Antony College, Oxford, UK (1987)
– MA in Peace Studies, Antioch University, (1984) Ohio, US
– Recipient of more than 20 “Doctor Honoris Causa” from Universities in Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Thailand, USA
– Chairman of the Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research (TIGER)
Kozminski University, Warsaw
– Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney
– Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Victoria Melbourne
– Past Visiting Professor, Ewa Women’s University, South Korea

– Chair, World Movement for Democracy, Washington DC (2020- 2022)
– Commissioner, Global Commission for Drug Policies, Geneva (ongoing)
– Club of Madrid/World Leadership Alliance (ongoing)
– Lectured in numerous Universities and think-tanks, participated in numerous international forums, summits, in Australia, China, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Portugal, Brazil, UK, US, etc
– Written books, chapters of books, opinion articles in Newsweek, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and in many others publications.

Languages

Tetum (national language), Portuguese, English, French, Spanish.

Countries, Territories Visited 135.