Institute For Advanced Study Appoints Cutileiro To Kennan Professorship

The Institute for Advanced Study has announced the appointment of Jos� Cutileiro as the George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies.

Cutileiro, who was Secretary-General of the Western European Union from 1994 to 1999, is currently Special Representative of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

"We are pleased to welcome to the Institute for Advanced Study an influential diplomat who has made history as well as studied it," commented Philip W. Griffiths, director of the Institute. "Dr. Cutileiro has had a distinguished career that combines scholarship with public service."

The Kennan Chair was established in 1995 to honor diplomat and scholar George Kennan, who has been affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study since his appointment in 1956 as professor in the School of Historical Studies.

Born in 1934, Jos� Cutileiro read architecture and medicine in Lisbon before taking a Diploma in Anthropology (1964) and a doctorate (1968) at Oxford University, where he became a Research Fellow of St. Antony's College (1968-71). He was lecturer in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1971 to 1974.

From 1974 to 1994 he worked for the Portuguese Foreign Service. He was the first Portuguese Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe (1977-80), Ambassador in Maputo (1980-83), Head of the Portuguese Delegation to the Stockholm Conference on Disarmament in Europe (1984-86), Political Director at the Foreign Ministry (1986-88), Ambassador in Pretoria (1989-91), Special Adviser to the Foreign Minister (1992-94), and the first President of the Portuguese Diplomatic Institute (1994).

Cutileiro negotiated Portugal's accession to the Western European Union (1988) and led the Portuguese side in consultations with the United States on the Azores military bases (1988-89). From January to August 1992, as coordinator of the European Community's Conference on Yugoslavia, he presided over talks on future constitutional arrangements for Bosnia and Herzegovina.

From January to June 2000, during the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union, he followed conflict-prevention matters, travelling extensively in Central and Eastern Europe. With the support of the Oriente Foundation, Lisbon, he has launched a private conflict-prevention initiative co-chaired by Lord Carrington, with which he remains associated.

Cutileiro has published two collections of poems (1959,1961); a monograph, A Portuguese Rural Society (1971); and numerous articles and opinion pieces in newspapers and periodicals.