Background
COHEN GALLERSTEIN, Benjamín was born on March 18, 1896 in Concepción. Son of Alberto Cohen and Rebeca Gallerstein.
COHEN GALLERSTEIN, Benjamín was born on March 18, 1896 in Concepción. Son of Alberto Cohen and Rebeca Gallerstein.
Journalist specializing in the field of international relations, 1912- 1922. Member of the reporting and editorial staffs of the dailies El Mercurio, Louisiana Mañana, and Louisiana Razón of Santiago and of El Sur of Concepción. Contributor to many important Chilean magazines.
Member of the staff of the Chilean National Library in charge of cultural extension work, 1914-1917.
Attaché of the Special Chilean Embassy to the Brazilian Centennial, 1922 j undersecretary of the Chilean Delegation and Chief of the Press Information Bureau, Fifth Pan American Conference of Santiago, 1923. Secretary of the Chilean Defense Commission in the Tacna-Arica arbitration, Washington, 1923.
Secretary of the Chilean Embassy in Washington, 1923-1927. Member of the Institute of Politics, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1924-1925.
Delegate to the Second Pan-American Red Cross Conference of Washington, 1926.
Member of the Chilean delegation to the Pan American Commission on Commercial Aviation, Washington, 1927. Chief of the Bureau of Interpreters and Translators of the Sixth Pan-American Conference of Havana, 1928. Technical director of the World Immigration Conference, Havana, 1928.
Delegate to the Latin Press Conference of Havana, 1928.
Also chairman of its First Committee. Secretary of the Chilean section on the Tacna-Arica Special Boundary Commission, New York, 1928.
Secretary to the Neutral Umpire of the German-Mexican (1927-1930), Spanish-Mexican (1927-1932), and ItalianMexican (1931-1932) Claims Commissions. Chief interpreter and translator of the Pan-American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation, Washington, 1929.
Spanish secretary of the Commission of Inquiry and Conciliation (Bolivia and Paraguay), Washington, 1929.
Delegate of the Catholic University of Santiago to the Conference of Educators, Havana, 1930. Secretary of the first Chilean delegate to the World Conference on the Codification of International Law, The Hague, 1930. Chief interpreter of the World Highway Congress, Washington, 1930.
Of the Pan-American Conference on Agriculture, Washington, 1930.
Member of the Chilean committee to the International Chamber of Commerce Congress of Washington, 1931. Delegate to the Regional Convention of the World Press Congress, Mexico City, 1931.
Chairman of the Chilean delegation to the Fourth Pan-American Commercial Conference of Washington, 1931. Delegate of the Catholic University of Santiago to the World Conference of Universities, New York, 1932.
Secretary of the Guatemala-Honduras Special Boundary Tribunal, 1931-1933.
Chargé d’affaires and counselor of the Chilean Embassy in Washington, 1933. Delegate to the Seventh Pan-American Conference of Montevideo, 1933. Member of the faculty of the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University.
Contributor to many newspapers and reviews both in the United States and Chile.
American Institute of International Law (member of the Executive Committee). American Society of International Law. American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Academy of Political Science of Columbia University.
American Geographical Society. Press Federation of America, Mexico City.
Latin Press Federation of America, Havana. Delta Sigma Pi Professional Commercial Fraternity.
