Background
ORTIZ DE ZEVALLOS, Emilio was born on April 13, 1885 in Paris, France.
ORTIZ DE ZEVALLOS, Emilio was born on April 13, 1885 in Paris, France.
Educated Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones, Lima, 1894-1899, Institute de Lima, 1899-1902. Bachelor of Science, Cornell University, Ithaca. N.Y., United States of America, 1906.
Secretary, legation, France, 1921-1926, 1st secretary and chargé d’affaires, 192630. Chargé d’affaires, Rome, 1930-1934. Consul general and commercial counselor of embassy, Chile, 1934-1937.
Director of protocol and ceremonial of Peru, 1937-1940. Minister to Panama, since 1940. Secretary, Society Nacional Agraria del Perú, 1916-1918.
Delegate to Congrès de Bibliothécaires et Bibliophiles de Paris (1923), Conférence d’Automobilisme de Paris (1926), Congrès de Cinématographie (1926), 4th International Congress of Agricultural Education, Rome (1932), 3d Congress of Linguistics, Rotne (1933). Officer, Del Mérito (Chile), Orange de Nassau (Holland), Cruzeiro do Sul (Brazil), of Vassa (Sweden), Crown of Italy. Commander, El Sol del Perú, Condor de los Andes (Bolivia), Abdón Calderón (Ecuador), Crown of Belgium, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (Cuba), Honneur et Mérite (Haiti), Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and Order of Saint Sylvester (Vatican).
Officer, Légion d’Honneur, France. Medals, centenary of the independence of Peru, 1921, and of Ayacucho, 1924. Ministerio dc Negocios Extrangeros de Francia, 1926.
Organización de la Legión de Honor de Francia, 1926.
Member Society des Américanistes, Union Interaliée, Comité France-Amérique (all of Paris), Polo de Paris, Club de Viña del Mar (Chile), Club Nacional (Lima), Club Unión and Golf Club (Panama).