Education
Luis Padilla Nervo studied law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He also did postgraduate work at American, French, and British universities.
Luis Padilla Nervo studied law at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He also did postgraduate work at American, French, and British universities.
Luis Padilla Nervo joined his country's diplomatic Corps when he was 22. In 1933 he attained the rank of envoy and, in 1945, that of ambassador.Padilla Nervo was an ambassador to Paraguay, Costa Rica, and Denmark.In the Mexican public administration, he served in the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labor.
He has been a delegate to every session of the General Assembly and, since 1947, chairman of his delegation. Dr. Padilla Nervo has represented his country in the Security Council, the Trusteeship Council (of which he was Vice-President in 1949), the Economic and Social Council, and the Interim Committee of the General Assembly (of which he was the first Chairman). In March 1951 he was named one of three delegates to the General Assembly's Good Offices Committee, set up to seek the cessation of hostilities in Korea. He was appointed to the committee by Ambassador Nasrollah Entezam (Iran), then President of the General Assembly.At the finish of his commission in the Permanent Mission of Mexico in United Nations, he was elected as judge of the International Court of Justice for the period 1 represented Mexico during the San Francisco Conference in 1945 and signed the United Nations Charter. In addition, he was the first Mexican Ambassador at the United Nations; in that position, he was a member of the United Nations Security Council. During the sixth session, he was president of the United Nations General Assembly.