Dante Caputo

Dante Caputo
Foreign Minister Caputo signs the 1984 Peace and Friendship Treaty
President of the United Nations General Assembly
In office 1988–1989
Preceded by	Peter Florin
Succeeded by	Joseph Nanven Garba
Minister of Foreign Relations
In office December 10, 1983 – May 26, 1989
President	Raúl Alfonsín
Preceded by	Juan Ramón Aguirre Lanari
Succeeded by	Susana Ruiz Cerutti
Personal details
Born	(1943-11-25) November 25, 1943 (age 73) Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dante Caputo (born 25 November 1943) is an Argentine academic, diplomat and politician, who served as the nation's foreign minister under President Raúl Alfonsín.

Dante Mario Antonio Caputo was born in Buenos Aires to parents from the Viggianello Basilicata Region of Italy. He graduated in political science at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires in 1966, and subsequently completed a graduate degree at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Between 1968 and 1972, he held various posts at the Organization of American States, and in 1972, earned doctorate in Sociology at the University of Paris. In 1973 he was appointed as an investigator at the Torcuato di Tella Institute and for six years he headed the centre of investigations on state and administration.

Caputo taught at the Universities of Buenos Aires, del Salvador, Paris, Quilmes and La Plata.

During the government of Raúl Alfonsín (1983–1989) Caputo served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (canciller) of Argentina and was the only minister to serve most of the President's term in office.

In this position:

Alfonsín's stand, though unpopular at the time, soon proved correct and was partly responsible for his securing the Radical Civic Union (UCR) nomination in 1983. Raúl Alfonsín was elected president on October 30, naming Dante Caputo Foreign Minister-designate.