José Cutileiro
| José Pires Cutileiro | |
|---|---|
| Born |
20 November 1934 Évora |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Institute for Advanced Study |
José Cutileiro (born November 20, 1934 Évora, Portugal) is a Portuguese diplomat and writer. He was a representative to the Council of Europe, a Secretary General of the Western European Union (WEU), and an envoy to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. He was on the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Cutileiro studied architecture and medicine at the Technical University of Lisbon and at the Classical University of Lisbon. He then went to Oxford University getting a degree in Anthropology in 1964, his PhD in 1968, and became a Research Fellow of St. Antony's College from 1968 to 1971. From 1971 to 1974 he taught Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
From September 2001 to June 2004 Cutileiro was the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
From 1974 to 1994 Cutileiro worked for the Portuguese Foreign Service and from 1977 to 1980 was the first permanent Portuguese representative to the Council of Europe. He served as the Portuguese ambassador to Mozambique (1980-1983) and to the Republic of South Africa (1989-1991). He led the Portuguese Delegation to the OSCE Conference on Disarmament in from 1984 to 1986.
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