GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ Y SANCHEZ: GG Prepares the Capitol Building for International Conference 1947 (Havana Charter)

Jurist Politician Diplomat Economist

Professor of International Law, School of Law, University of Havana-1919-1934.

Secretary/treasurer-Cuban Society of International Law, 1920.

Legal Counsel to Secretary of State-1925-29

Delegate- VI American International Conference, 1928

Delegate/Technical Counsel-Conference on Conciliation and Arbitrage, Washington-1928

Secretary General-First Pan-American Conference of Municipalities, 1928

Delegate Plenapotentiary-Conference on Trademarks, Washington, 1929

Director of the International American Office for the Protection of Trademarks and Commerce, 1930.

Liberal Party - President-Havana province, 1930

Delegate-IV Pan-American Commercial Conference, Washington, 1931

Secretary of Justice, 1933

Member-House of Representatives, 1938-1942

Technical Advisor-Commission on Foreign Relations for the Senate, 1937

Technical Advisor-Commission for the Study of the New Constitution, 193?

President of the Foreign Relations Commission for the House of Representatives, 1939

Technical Director -Pan-American Commission for Intermuncipalities Cooperation, Chicago-1939

Delegate- VIII American Scientific Congress, Washington-1940

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1940-1941

Cuban delegation head and Sub-Committee President, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Atlantic City, 1943, 1944 and 1945.

G.A.T.T. Chairman Legal Drafting Committee and Tech. Dir., Cuban Delegation) Geneva-1947; (Head of Cuban Delegation) Geneva, Petropolis-1950, 1954.

Head of Cuban delegation, (GATT) Havana Charter, 1948.

President-Junta de Economia de Guerra, 1942.

President-Cuban Maritime Commission, 1942-43.

Ambassador to the United Nations (Security Council)1948.

President-Cuban Delegation, General Assembly, 1949

Technical Director/Secretary/President-National Junta of Economy (Junta Nacional de Economia) 1948-1953.

President-United Nations Economic Committee, 1951.

Minister of Finance (Ministro de Hacienda) 1953-1955.

Special Envoy-O.A.S. Conference of the Presidents, Panama, 1956.

President-Cuban Nuclear Energy Commission, 1956.

President-Ministerial Commission for Tariff Reform, 1958.

Minister of Economy (a.k.a. Ministro Presidente-Consejo Nacional de Economia/National Board of Economy, 1955-1959.

January 1, 2009

GG Prepares the Capitol Building for International Conference 1947 (Havana Charter)

The above article written by Fernando Villaverde, appeared in a Havana newspaper on November 18, 1947. The title reads, "He gives a bath to the Capitol Building." Mr. Villaverde interviewed Dr. Gustavo Gutiérrez who at the time was president of the auxiliary commission in charge of preparing the Capital Building for the upcoming United Nations World Conference on the Expansion of Commerce and Employment. Cuba and Dr. Gutiérrez hosted the conference on the 21st of December, 1947, representing 57 nations and with 2,500 delegates in attendance. (Please see blog entry, "The Havana Charter (La Carta de la Habana) 1947/48, October, 2008). Dr. Gutiérrez closed the conference with a speech that can be read in blog entry " Havana Charter GG closing remarks, 1948" February, 2010.

Dr. Gutiérrez's daughter Yolanda shares with us this anecdote. " During the weeks prior to the Conference I recall my father saying with great frustration, " This is the city where every difficulty and inconvenience can be surely predicted and expected."