Héctor Timerman
| Héctor Timerman | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 22 June 2010 – 10 December 2015 |
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| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Jorge Taiana (As Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina) |
| Succeeded by | Susana Malcorra (As Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship) |
| Ambassador to the United States | |
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In office 10 December 2007 – 18 June 2010 |
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| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | José Octavio Bordón |
| Succeeded by | Alfredo Chiaradía |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 December 1953 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political affiliations |
Front for Victory (2003–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Annabella Selecki |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Religion | Judaism |
Héctor Marcos Timerman (born December 16, 1953) (Ukrainian: Ектор Маркос Тімерман) is an Argentine journalist, politician, human rights activist and diplomat of Ukrainian and Lithuanian descent. He served as Argentine Minister of Foreign Relations from 2010 to 2015, during the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Héctor Timerman was born in Buenos Aires to Risha (née Mindlin) and Jacobo Timerman. He is of Lithuanian Jewish descent.
He was named editor-in-chief of La Tarde, one of a number of periodicals owned by his father, in 1976, and steered the daily in support of the newly installed dictatorship. His father's April 15, 1977, kidnapping prompted Timerman to become active in the defense of human rights, however, and in 1978 he was exiled in New York City, where, in 1981, he co-founded Americas Watch, the Western Hemisphere counterpart to Helsinki Watch that proceeded the creation of the unified Human Rights Watch. He later served in the board of directors of the Fund for Free Expression, a press freedom advocacy group based in London.
Timerman earned a master's degree in international relations at Columbia University in 1981, and wrote several op-ed columns for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, and The Nation. Returning to Argentina in 1989, he founded two news magazines, Tres Puntos and Debate, and became a regular contributor to Noticias and Ámbito Financiero. He also hosted a television news interview program, Diálogos con Opinión. Timerman was an early adherent to Congresswoman Elisa Carrió's center-left ARI. Following elections in 2003, however, he became a close supporter of President Néstor Kirchner.
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