CURRICULUM VITAE

DANTE CAPUTO

Date of birth: November 25, 1943

Marital status: Married, three children

Nationality: Argentinean

Country of residence: United States

Studies:

Graduated in Political Sciences at , 1966 Postgraduate studies in International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Boston. 1966-1967 Advanced Studies Diploma. University of Paris. 1970. Thesis: The State and Industrialization in 1914-1930 Doctorate in Political Sociology. University of Paris. 1972. Thesis: The State and Political Alliances in Argentina 1930-1958. Thesis supervisor: François Bourricaud. Examiners:: Alain Tourame and Celso Furtado. Specialized course in Information Technology for the Social Sciences, Sciences Faculty of the University of Paris. 1970-71.

Academic activities:

Secondary school teacher 1962-64 Professor of Political Sociology. Undergraduate level. Universidad del Salvador. 1973-74 Associate Professor of Public Administration. Undergraduate level. National University of . Economic Sciences Faculty. 1973-74 Associate Professor of Administrative Systems. National University of Buenos Aires. Engineering Faculty. 1973-74 Professor of International Relations. Postgraduate level. National University of Quilmes 1996-97. Professor of International Relations. Postgraduate level. National University of Quilmes 1996-97. 19981999 Professor of International Relations. Undergraduate level. Law Faculty. National University of Buenos Aires. 2000. Professor of Democratic Theory. University of Paris, Sorbonne Professor of Collective Security Systems. Undergraduate level. Law Faculty. National University of Buenos Aires. 2000 Researcher at the Public Administration Research Center. Di Tella Institute. Buenos Aires 1972-75 Researcher at the Research Center on the State and the Administration. Researcher at the Research Center on the State and the Administration. 1977-1983. Numerous articles published in academic journals and periodicals. Author of: El rol del sector público en el cambio de la sociedad argentina entre 1930 y 1958 [The role of the public sectorin changes in Argentine society between 1930 and 1958]. Doctoral thesis. Sorbonne, París. 1972 El proceso de industrialización argentino entre 1900 y 1930 [The Argentine industrialization process between 1900 and 1930]. Latin American Studies Institute. Paris 1970 El poder militar en Argentina (1976-1981) [Military Power in Argentina (1976-1981], co-author. Verlag Klaus Dieter Vervuert. Frankfurt. 1982 Así nacen las democracias [That is how democracies arise], co-author. Emecé. Buenos Aires 1984

Democratic culture and governance. Unesco-Hispamérica. 1992 América Latina y las democracias pobres [ and poor democracies]. Ediciones del Quinto Centenario. Madrid 1992. Frepaso, alternancia o alternativa [Frente País Solidario, alternation or alternative] with Julio Godio. Corregidor. Buenos Aires. 1996. Argentina en el comienzo del tercer milenio [Argentina at the start of the new millennium]. Co-author. Editorial Atlántida. Buenos Aires La democracia en América Latina [Democracy in Latin America], 2004. UNDP Editor of the publication Contribuciones al debate de la democracia en América Latina [Contributions to the debate about democracy in Latin America], 2005, UNDP, Santillana Founder and Editor of Bimestre Político y Económico [Political and Economic Bi- Monthly Review], Buenos Aires 1981-1992. Director of the journal Argumento Político [Political Argument], 1982-1990. Other activities and public offices: Consultant of the Organization of American States. Quito. Ecuador. 1975-76 Consultant for UNCTAD, . . 1977-79 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. 1983-89 Signed the Argentina -Chile Peace and Friendship Treaty in 1984. Initiator of the and co-founder of the . Negotiated and signed the agreements with and , which paved the way for the establishment of . Elected President of the forty-third general assembly of the in 1998. Elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1989. Vice Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Argentina Chamber of Deputies, 1989-1993. In December 1992, appointed as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to negotiate the crisis in , a position in which he also represented the Organization of American States. Appointed in 1993, as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, to be the Secretary-General’s Representative for Haiti until 1994. During that period, he negotiated the Governors Island Agreement on a democratic transition in Haiti.

Re-elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1997. Secretary of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. Member of the Defense Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. Appointed Secretary of State for Technology, Science, and Productive Innovation in 1999. Resigned in February 2001. Vice President of FREPASO between 1996 and 2000. Member of the Presidential Council of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights. Argentina.

From June 2001 until September 2004, Director of the Regional Project on Democratic Development in Latin America. United Nations Development Programme.

In March 2006, appointed by the Secretary General of the Organization of American States as the OAS Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs.