SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JUAN CARLOS BRANDT AS DIRECTOR OF UN INFORMATION CENTRE IN SYDNEY
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SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS JUAN CARLOS BRANDT AS DIRECTOR OF UN INFORMATION CENTRE IN SYDNEY
19981019 Biographical Note Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Juan Carlos Brandt as Director of the United Nations Information Centre in Sydney, Australia. He is expected to take up his duties on 23 October.Mr. Brandt joined the United Nations in 1984 as Information Officer in the United Nations Information Centre in Washington, D.C. In 1988, he became Associate Spokesman in the Office of the Spokesman for the then Secretary- General of the United Nations, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. In January 1992 and for the next five years, he served in the same capacity under former Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and, most recently, since January 1997, under Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the capacity of Senior Associate Spokesman and Acting Deputy Spokesman.
In 1989, Mr. Brandt was appointed spokesman for the President of the forty-third session of the General Assembly, Dante Caputo (Argentina).
Before joining the United Nations, Mr. Brandt worked for five years as Director of the Venezuelan Government Tourist and Information Center for the United States and Canada in New York, and as Press Counsellor for the Permanent Mission of Venezuela to the United Nations. Prior to that assignment, he worked several years in Caracas, Venezuela, in the field of communications and advertising, both in the private and public sectors.
Mr. Brandt attended the La Salle School, in Caracas, and the Liceo San José de los Teques, also in Venezuela. He earned a degree in mass communications and journalism from the Universidad Católica Andres Bello, in Caracas.
Born on 26 November 1952 in London, United Kingdom, Mr. Brandt is married and has five children.
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