A H DANTAS de BRITO, Diplomat, Official. Chief, Political Information Unit, Office of the Under Secretary General, Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, United Nations.
Education
School of Law & Social Science, Bahia, Brazil, 1931-1935, Law. University of Brazil, 1937. Catholic University of America, Washington, District of Columbia, 1941-1943, Doctor of Philosophy International Law, Relations & Economy.
Spoken languages: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish.
Career
Chief, Political Information Unit, Office of the Under Secretary General, Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, United Nations since 1964. Principal Secretary, Security Council Special Mission to Senegal, 1971. Principal Secretary, Special Mission to Guinea, 1970.
Principal Secretary, Special Committee on Situation in Angola, 1961-1963. Senior Political Affairs Officer, Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, 1957-1960. Principal Secretary, United Nations Commission for Unification & Rehabilitation of of Korea, 1955-1956.
Chief, West Hemisphere Affairs & Reg Arrangements Section(s), Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, 1952-1954. Deputy Principal Secretary, United Nations Commission for Unification & Rehabilitation of of Korea, 1950-1951. Deputy Principal Secretary, Committee of Good Office on Indonesia Question & United Nations Commission for Indonesia, 1948-1949.
Secretary, Netherlands-Indonesia Conference, 1949. Senior Political Affairs Officer, Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, 1948. Legal Counsellor, International Monetary Fund, Washington, District of Columbia, 1946-1948.
Pan American Union, Washington, District of Columbia, 1943-1946. Professor of Sociology, College of Sergipe, 1940. State Attorney, Brazil, 1936-1940.
District Attorney, 1935.