António Guterres

António Guterres       (politician)
Born	António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres 1949-04-30 Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Alma mater	Superior Technical Institute
Religion	Roman Catholicism
Children	Pedro Mariana
Spouse	Luísa Guimarães e Melo
Member of	Club de Madrid, US/Department/State/International Visitor Leadership Program
Party	Socialist Party
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees In office 15 June 2005 - 31 December 2015  Prime Minister of Portugal In office 28 October 1995 - 6 April 2002 Succeeded by José Manuel Barroso  President of the Socialist International In office November 1999 - June 2005 Deputy Deniz Baykal  Secretary-General of the Socialist Party In office 23 February 1992 - 20 January 2002 Preceded by Jorge Sampaio  Secretary-General of the United Nations In office 1 January 2017 - Present Preceded by Ban Ki-moon

António Guterres (born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is the Secretary-General-designate of the United Nations.

Guterres was Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002, as leader of the Socialist Party. He also served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005.

He was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from June 2005 to December 2015.

In October 2016 the United Nations General Assembly elected António Guterres by acclamation to become the next UN Secretary-General, succeeding the retiring Ban Ki-moon.

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On 6 October 2017, António Guterres tweeted:

"Congratulations to ICAN on their Nobel Peace Prize. Now more than ever we need a world without nuclear weapons.

 

Appointments by António Guterres

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End
Louise Arbour	UN Special Representative for International Migration	9 March 2017
Elisa Ferreira	Portugal/Minister/Environment and Natural Resources	28 October 1995	25 October 1999
Elisa Ferreira	Portugal/Minister/Planning	25 October 1999	6 April 2002
Filippo Grandi	UN/High Commissioner/Refugees	1 January 2016

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1990	10 May 1990	13 May 1990	New York US Glen Cove	38th Bilderberg meeting, 119 guests
Bilderberg/2005	5 May 2005	8 May 2005	Germany Rottach-Egern	The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests
Munich Security Conference/2014	31 January 2014	2 February 2014	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 50th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2015	6 February 2015	8 February 2015	Germany Munich Bavaria	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/2022	18 February 2022	20 February 2022	Germany Munich Bavaria	Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here
Munich Security Conference/2024	16 February 2024	18 February 2024	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects
One Year Commemoration of the High-Level Meeting on UHC - Measuring Progress Challenges and Opportunities in the Context of COVID-19	8 October 2020	8 October 2020		A number of ministers meeting online under the aegis of the WHO Director-General, musing on the challenges and opportunities for "building back better"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2007	24 January 2007	28 January 2007	Switzerland	Only the 449 public figures listed of ~2200 participants
WEF/Annual Meeting/2008	23 January 2008	27 January 2008	World Economic Forum Switzerland	At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2009	23 January 2009	27 January 2009	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014	22 January 2014	25 January 2014	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2015	21 January 2015	24 January 2015	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by a lot of people. This page lists only the 261 "Public Figures".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2018	23 January 2018	26 January 2018	Switzerland	~2200 of the super-rich meet to talk about "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World"
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	World Economic Forum Switzerland	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020	21 January 2020	24 January 2020	World Economic Forum Switzerland	This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023	16 January 2023	20 January 2023	World Economic Forum Switzerland	The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Open Letter To The Judges Of The International Criminal Court	Letter	7 October 2024	Yanis Varoufakis Brian Eno
Document:UN Secretary-General invokes Article 99 on Gaza	Article	6 December 2023	Al Jazeera	"Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the UN Security Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe and appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared."

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