National positions
- Member, Council of State, Advisory Body to the President of the Republic of TIMORLeste (2012-)
- Member, National Council on Maritime Boundary Delimitation (2016 - )
- President of the Republic (2007 - 2012)
- Prime Minister, Minister of Defence (2006-2007)
- Senior Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (2002-2006)
- Cabinet Member, United Nations Transition y for East Timor - UNTAET (2000-2002)
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Information, in the first Govt proclaimed in December 1975
following Timor-Leste's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, International
Spokesperson of the Resistance (1975-1999)
International positions, past, current
- President, World Movement for Democracy, HQ Washington, elected July 2020;
- Chair, Scientific Council, of the think-tank TIGER – Transformation, Integration and
Globalization Economic Research (www.tiger.edu.pl), Kozminski University, Warsaw,
Poland, January (2021-2030);
- Board Member, World Leadership Alliance, Madrid (2012 - );
- Member, Global Leadership Foundation, London, UK.
- Member, High Level Board on Mediation, with UN Secretary-General (2017-2019);
- External Advisor to the President of the UN General Assembly, (2017-2018);
- Commissioner, Global Commission on Drug Policy, Geneva, (2017 - ).
- Chair, High Level Independent Panel on UN Peace Operations, appointed by the UN
Secretary-General (November 2014 - 2015), UNHQ, NY;
- Co-Chair, Independent Commission on Multilateralism, (2014-2016), International
Peace Institute, NY;
- Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN Integrated
Peace Building Mission in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) (Jan 2013- June 2014)
Academic
- Member Honorary Advisory Council of the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard
University, 2012 - ;
- Diploma, Executive Program, Leaders in Development, John F. Kennedy School ofGovernment, Harvard University (1998);
- Senior Associate Member, International Relations, St. Antony's College, University of
Oxford (1987);
- Master of Arts in Peace Studies, Antioch University, Ohio, USA (1984);
- Advanced Diploma, Public Relations, Centro Internacional de Marketing (1970-1974);
- Completed courses in Public International Law in The Hague Academy of International
Law, and in International Human Rights Law in The International Institute of Human
Rights, Strasbourg (1983);
- Doctor Honoris Causa from Universities in Australia, Japan, Korea, Thailand, The
Philipinnes, Brazil, Portugal, USA;
- Founding President, Diplomacy and Human Rights Program, Law Faculty, University of
New South Wales, Sydney, since 1990;
- Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, since 1996;
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, Victoria University, Melbourne, since 2007;
- Visiting Professor Ewa Women International University, Seoul, 2007-2012.
Membership in Major Int'l Organisations
Languages
Tetum, Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.
Major awards
- Nobel Peace Prize (1996)
- Companion of the Order of Australia (2015)
- Ordem de Timor-Leste (2012)
- Ordem Dom Boaventura (2006)
- Ordem De Liberdade, Portugal, (1998)
- Ordem Dom Infante, Portugal (2011)
- Orders from Brazil, Cuba, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde
Books and other writings
- Words Of Hope, Speeches, Essays, Longueville Media, Sydney (2018)
- Where the Sun on Rising Sees First, co-authored with Raquel Belli, LIDEL, Lisbon
(2014);
- The Lost World of Timor-Leste, LIDEL Lisbon (2017), with Patricia Vickers-Rich, and
Peter Tussler;
- FUNU: The Unfinished Saga of East Timor, Red Sea Press, Trenton, NJ, USA, 1987;
- Timor-Leste: Amanha em Dili, Dom Quixote, Lisbon, 1994;
- A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq, Thomas Cushman (Editor)with Christopher Hitchens, José Ramos-Horta and others. (2005) University of California
Press;
Written on international affairs for the International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, Wall Street International Magazine, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast,
Newsweek, The Hill, etc