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Ecuador

Author · Ecuador

Jorge Carrera Andrade

Died in 1978

Jorge Carrera Andrade was born on 18 September 1903 in Quito. After studying law in his home city and letters in Barcelona, he pursued a diplomatic career: consul in Paita, Le Havre, Yokohama and San Francisco, then Ecuador's permanent delegate to Unesco in Paris, where he edited The Unesco Courier. Minister of foreign affairs, he later taught at Stony Brook, became head of the National Library in 1976 and died in Quito on 7 November 1978.

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