Background
PODESTÁ COSTA, Luis A was born on October 16, 1885 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
PODESTÁ COSTA, Luis A was born on October 16, 1885 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Professor, of international public law, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1919-1939. Professor., 1939— ’ 46, dean, school of economics science, 1944. Diplomatic editor, daily La Nación, since 1926.
Argentine delegate, Council of American Jurisconsults for codification of international law, Rio de Janeiro, 1927. Legal adviser, Argentine delegation, 6th Pan American Conference, Havana, 1928, Disarmament Conference, Geneva, 1932, Conference of Ministers of Education, Panama, 1943. Delegate, Conciliation and Arbitration Conference, Washington, 1929, negotiating commission for tariff agreement with Great Britain, 1933, 7th Pan American Conference, Montevideo, 1933, Pan American Conference on Hygiene, 1934, Pan American Comml.
Conference, 1935, Chaco Peace Conference, Buenos Aires, 1935, Congress of Institute of Comparative Law, The Hague, 1937, Congress of International Bureau to Unify Penal Law, Cairo, 1938, Inter-American Neutrality Committee, Rio de Janeiro, 1940-1942. Embassy counsellor, 1931. Chief, policy division, ministry of foreign affairs, 1931, director general of ministry, Í933.
Confidential agent to government of Paraguay, 1935. Legal adviser, League of Nations, 1936, assistant secretary general, 1938-1939. On special mission to governments, of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, 1938.
President, Argentina-Paraguay boundary commission which solved boundary question on Rio Pilcomayo, 1941-1944. Officer, Del Mérito (Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay), Cóndor de los Andes (Bolivia), Cruzeiro do Sul (Brazil), Grand Duke Gediminas (Lithuania), Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Panama), Sol del Perú. Juris Doctor, University Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1917.
Member legal advisory commission to secretariat of industry and commerce, 1945. Member: Institute Argentino de Derecho Internacional, Union Juridique International (Paris), American Society of International Law, Inter-American Juridical Committee (Rio dc Janeiro), Academy Nacional de Historia (Ecuador, correspondent), Institute Chileno de Estudios Internacionales (lion.), Institute Cultural Argentino-Canadiense (president), Institute Cultural Argentino-Peruano (vice-president).