High Profilers – Page 14

4Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles

Hans Prade, diplomat & politician

Hans Orlando Prade, a Surinamese diplomat and politician, died on 3 April 2020 due to coronavirus. After graduating from Leiden University, Prade returned to Suriname, and founded the short lived Nationale Volkspartij together with Ronald Venetiaan. Later Prade became a member of the Progressieve Nationale Partij. During the coup, Prade was a commentator on Suriname radio. Prade was the Surinamese ambassador to the Netherlands from 1981 to 1982. His political and undiplomatic statements were not appreciated by the regime and he was dismissed on 1 June 1982. In 1986, Prade became chairman of the Rekenkamer van Suriname [nl], a position which he held for about 10 years. In 1991, he tried to run for President of Suriname, but lost out to his former college friend Venetiaan. ...

4Apr

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Omar Quintana, politician

Omar Quintana Baquerizo ‑ an Ecuadorian politician, sports executive, businessman, and member of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Party (PRE) and Institutional Renewal Party of National Action (PRIAN) political parties – died on on April 3, 2020 from coronavirus. Quintana served in the former National Congress of Ecuador from 2003 to 2005, including a tenure as the President of the National Congress from January 5, 2005, until April 20, 2005. Additionally, Quintana was the former director of C.S. Emelec, a professional football sports club based in Guayaquil. Under his leadership, C.S. Emelec won three national football championships in 1979, 2001, and 2002. He also headed the Club 9 de Octubre football club when the team qualified for the Copa Libertadores competition in 1984 an...

4Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Arlene Stringer-Cuevas, politician

Arlene Stringer-Cuevas ‑ an American politician, educator, and civil servant – died from coronavirus on April 3, 2020. She was a schoolteacher before serving on the New York City Council from 1976 to 1977. Stringer-Cuevas later worked for the New York City Human Resources Administration for 16 years until her retirement in 1994. She died due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Stringer-Cuevas was born Arlene Gluss in the Bronx in New York City, New York, and was a school teacher. She lived in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. She was Jewish. Stringer-Cuevas served as her neighborhood's Democratic Party district leader from 1969 to 1976. She was elected to the New York City Council in 1976 after winning a four-person primary for the Democratic n...

3Apr

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High Profilers, Indonesia, Profiles

Aptripel Tumimomor, politician

Aptripel Tumimomor ‑ an Indonesian politician, businessman and engineer – passed away on April 2, 2020 due to coronavirus. He served as the Regent of North Morowali Regency, in Central Sulawesi, from February 17, 2016, until his death in office on April 2, 2020, from Covid-19. Aptripel Tumimomor was born on April 3, 1966, in Kolonodale, Central Sulawesi. He was a member of the Mori people [id], who are native to the present-day North Morowali Regency in Sulawesi. His parents, Hendrik Tumimomor Kamesi and Maligene Damantora Lande, were teachers. Tumimomor was a descendant of Mokole Ede Kamesi, known by the royal title Datu Ri Tana VIII (King Mori), who ruled the small Mori Kingdom [id] in central Sulawesi from 1907 until 1928. Tumimomor attended elementary school in Tom...

3Apr

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High Profilers, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Philippines, Profiles

Bernardita Catalla, diplomat

Bernardita Leonido Catalla ‑ a Filipina career diplomat who was last appointed as the Philippine ambassador to Lebanon – passed away after suffering from Covid-19 on April 2, 2020. Prior to her posting in Lebanon, she was also assigned to Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Catalla was born on February 18, 1958 in Makati, then a part of the Province of Rizal. She graduated in 1979 from University of the Philippines Los Baños with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication arts. From 1987 to 1993, she studied at the University of the Philippines Diliman for her master's degree in communication research and in 1991, she graduated with a Master of Arts degree in development studies from the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterda...

2Apr

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High Profilers, United Kingdom

James Gordon, House of Lords member

James Stuart Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane ‑ a Scottish business executive and member of the House of Lords – died of coronavirus on 31 March 2020. A kinsman of the Marquess of Huntly, he was the son of James Gordon and Elsie née Riach. Gordon was educated at the St Aloysius' College, Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in Classics in 1958. Gordon worked as a political editor for STV between 1965 and 1973, and as managing director of Radio Clyde between 1973 and 1996. For Scottish Radio Holdings, Gordon was the Chief Executive from 1991 to 1996 and Chairman from 1996 to 2005; he was also Vice-Chairman of Melody Radio from 1991 to 1997, a director of Clydeport Holdings ...

2Apr

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Peter J. N. Sinclair, economist

Peter James Niven Sinclair, a British economist, passed away on 31 March 2020 after contracting Covid-19. He was Professor, and subsequently Emeritus Professor, in Economics at the University of Birmingham. Previously, he had been a fellow and tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford. Sinclair grew up in London and Norfolk and was educated at Gresham's School and the University of Oxford, where he gained his BA and doctorate. His first job was in the export department of Linde AG in Germany. This sharpened his lifelong interest in international economics. Peter Sinclair taught at Oxford from 1970 to 1994, mainly in economic theory, monetary policy and international economics, as fellow and tutor in Economics at Brasenose College. In 1994 he became...

2Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Kevin Duffy, judge

Kevin Thomas Duffy ‑ an American lawyer and United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York – died from Covid-19 on April 1, 2020. Born on January 10, 1933, in the Bronx, Duffy received a bachelor's degree from Fordham University in 1954 and a Bachelor of Laws from the Fordham University School of Law in 1958. He clerked for Judge J. Edward Lumbard at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1955–1958). Duffy served as an Assistant United States Attorney (1958–1959) and assistant chief of the Criminal Division (1959–1961) at the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York before going into private practice as an associate with t...

2Apr

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Nur Hassan Hussein, politician

Nur Hassan Hussein aka Nur Adde ‑ a Somali politician who served as Prime Minister of Somalia from November 2007 to February 2009 – succumbed to Covid-19 on 1 April 2020. He was from Mogadishu and part of the Abgaal sub-clan of the Hawiye. Hussein began his professional career in the early 1950s as a police officer for Italian Somaliland before Somalia gained its independence. After completing studies in Law at the Somalia National University and the Fiscal Law School in Rome, Hussein became chief police officer and attorney general in 1987 under President Siad Barre, a post he held until 1991 when the Somali Civil War broke out. He subsequently served as the Secretary General of the Somali Red Crescent Society (SRCS). On 22 November 2007,...

31Mar

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High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Ted Monette, militaryman

Theodore A. Monette Jr. ‑ an American army colonel who had served as FEMA director of the Office of Federal Coordinating Officer Operations – died on March 30, 2020 due to Covid-19. Monette was a graduate of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He joined the Federal Emergency Management Agency after serving 30 years in the U.S. Army. He was the senior federal official in charge of response and recovery operations after the 2001 September 11 attack on New York City. He also guided the response and relief effort after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. Monette was a veteran of the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf wars. He died during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Massachusetts after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and was buried...