Víctor Andrés Belaúnde

Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez–Canseco was a Peruvian diplomat, politician, philosopher and scholar. He chaired the 14th Session and the 4th Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly between 1959 and 1960 and was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru in 1958. A distinguished scholar, Belaúnde was an important Catholic thinker and a professor at the San Marcos University and then at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he was Emeritus Rector.