HE The President of Timor Leste
Dr. Jose Ramos-Horta
Climate Change
in Asia
H.E. President Dr. Jose Ramos-Horta is a 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, the current President of Timor-Leste and a Patron of the International Peace Foundation. He has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees by numerous universities around the world.
Biography
H.E. President Dr. Jose Ramos-Horta is a 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, the President of Timor-Leste and a Patron of the International Peace Foundation. Dr. Ramos-Horta has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees by numerous universities in Australia, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Portugal, Brazil and the US. He is the Founder and for years Executive Director and lecturer with the Diplomacy Training Program of the University of New South Wales. He has lectured extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Portugal, France, Germany and the US.
In 1996 Dr. Ramos-Horta was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Bishop Carlos Belo, the religious leader of East Timor, ”to honor their sustained and self-sacrificing contributions for a small but oppressed people“, hoping that ”this award will spur efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict of East Timor based on the people's right to self-determination“.
…to honor their sustained and self-sacrificing contributions for a small but oppressed people
After the entry of a UN peace-keeping force Dr. Ramos-Horta returned to his homeland to help rebuild the country. Working closely with the UN and Sergio Vierra de Mello, the head of the UN Administration in East Timor until 2002, he helped to bring about peaceful elections of the country's President and Parliament, who in turn drafted the country's constitution. In May 2007 Dr. José Ramos-Horta was elected President of Timor-Leste, winning nearly 70 percent of the votes.
Website: timor-leste.gov.tl
