哈维尔•佩雷斯•德奎利亚尔于1982年1月1日就任联合国秘书长。1986年10月10日，他当选连任，第二任期于1987年1月1日开始。

佩雷斯•德奎利亚尔先生于1920年1月19日出生于秘鲁的利马。他是律师和职业外交官，现已退休。

他于1940年进入秘鲁外交部工作，1944年开始担任外交工作，先后担任秘鲁驻法国、联合王国、玻利维亚和巴西大使馆秘书及驻巴西大使馆参赞、公使衔参赞。

他于1961年返回利马，翌年升任大使，先后担任法律司司长、行政司司长、礼宾司司长和政治事务司司长。1966年，他被任命为外交部秘书长(副部长)。1981年，他担任外交部法律顾问。

佩雷斯•德奎利亚尔先生曾任秘鲁驻瑞士、苏联、波兰和委内瑞拉大使。

他是秘鲁出席1946年大会第一届会议代表团成员，也是出席大会第二十五届至第三十届会议代表团成员。1971年，他被任命为秘鲁常驻联合国代表，从那年起到1975年，率领秘鲁代表团出席联合国大会各届会议。

1973年和1974年，他代表秘鲁出席安全理事会，于1974年7月塞浦路斯事件发生时担任安理会主席。1975年9月18日，他被任命为秘书长驻塞浦路斯特别代表，担任该职直至1977年12月返回本国外交部为止。

1979年2月27日，他被任命为联合国主管特别政治事务副秘书长。1981年4月起，他除担任此职位外，并兼任秘书长处理阿富汗局势的个人代表。他以此身份，在那一年4月和8月访问巴基斯坦和阿富汗，以便继续进行秘书长在几个月前开始的谈判。

1981年5月，他再次返回秘鲁外交部工作，但继续担任秘书长处理阿富汗局势的代表，直至他于那年12月被任命为联合国秘书长为止。

他还担任过秘鲁外交外交学院国际法教授和秘鲁空战学院国际关系教授，著有《外交法手册》(1964年)。

佩雷斯•德奎利亚尔先生曾获下列各大学的荣誉博士学位：尼斯大学；克拉科夫的雅盖尔洛尼安大学；布拉格的查尔斯大学；索非亚大学；利马的圣马科斯大学；布鲁塞尔的自由大学；加拿大渥太华的卡尔顿大学；巴黎大学(索邦)；印度西孟加拉的维斯瓦巴拉蒂大学；密歇根大学；德意志联邦共和国的奥斯纳布吕克大学；葡萄牙科英布拉的科英布拉大学；乌兰巴托的蒙古国立大学；柏林的洪堡大学；莫斯科国立大学；瓦莱塔的马耳他大学；荷兰的莱顿大学；费城的拉萨尔大学；巴萨诸塞州梅德福的塔夫茨大学；马里兰州巴尔的摩的约翰斯霍普金斯大学；联合王国的剑桥大学。

在其职业生涯中，佩雷斯•德奎利亚尔先生曾获25个国家授勋。

1987年10月，他因促进拉丁美洲的合作而获阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖。1989年1月，他获奥洛夫•帕尔梅纪念基金会颁发的奥洛夫•帕尔梅促进国际了解与共同安全奖。1989年2月，他获贾瓦哈拉尔•尼赫鲁促进国际了解奖。

佩雷斯•德奎利亚尔先生已婚，有子女二人。

Javier Perez de Cuellar assumed office as Secretary-General of the United Nations on 1 January 1982. On 10 October 1986, he was appointed for a second term of office, which began on 1 January 1987.

Mr. Perez de Cuellar was born inLima,Peru, on 19 January 1920. He is a lawyer and a career diplomat, now retired.

He joined the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1940 and the diplomatic service in 1944, serving subsequently as Secretary at the Peruvian embassies inFrance, theUnited Kingdom,BoliviaandBrazil, and as Counsellor and Minister Counsellor at the embassy inBrazil.

Having returned to Lima in 1961, he was promoted to the rank of Ambassador the following year, successively occupying the posts of Director of the Legal Department, Director of Administration, Director of Protocol and Director of Political Affairs. In 1966, he was appointed Secretary-General (Deputy Minister) for Foreign Affairs. In 1981, he served as Legal Adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Perez de Cuellar was Ambassador of Peru toSwitzerland, the Soviet Union,PolandandVenezuela.

He was a member of the Peruvian delegation to the General Assembly at its first session in 1946 and a member of the delegations to the twenty-fifth to thirtieth sessions of the Assembly. In 1971, he was appointed Permanent Representative ofPeruto the United Nations, and he led his country's delegation to all sessions of the Assembly from then until 1975.

In 1973 and 1974, he represented his country in the Security Council, serving as President of the Council at the time of the events inCyprusin July 1974. On 18 September 1975, he was appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General inCyprus, a post he held until December 1977, when he rejoined his Foreign Service.

On 27 February 1979, he was appointed as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs. From April 1981, while still holding this post, he acted as the Secretary-General's Personal Representative on the situation relating toAfghanistan. In that capacity, he visitedPakistanandAfghanistanin April and August of that year in order to continue the negotiations initiated by the Secretary-General some months earlier.

In May 1981, he again rejoined his country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs but continued to represent the Secretary-General in the context of the situation relating toAfghanistanuntil his appointment in December of that year as Secretary-General of the United Nations.

He also served as Professor of International Law atPeru's Academia Diplomatica and Professor of International Relations atPeru's Academia de Guerra Aerea. He is the author of Manual de DerechoDiplomatico (Manual of Diplomatic Law (1964).

Mr. Perez de Cuellar received doctorate degrees honoriscausa from the following universities: the University of Nice; the Jagiellonian University at Cracow; Charles University at Prague; the University of Sofia; the University of San Marcos at Lima; the Free University at Brussels; Carleton University at Ottawa, Canada; the University of Paris (Sorbonne); the University of Visva-Bharati in West Bengal, India; the University of Michigan; the University of Osnabruck in the Federal Republic of Germany; the Coimbra University at Coimbra, Portugal; the Mongolian State University at Ulan Bator; the Humboldt University of Berlin; the Moscow State University; the University of Malta in Valleta; the Leyden University in the Netherlands; La Salle University in Philadelphia; Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts; the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; and Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.

In the course of his career, Mr. Perez de Cuellar was decorated by some 25 countries.

In October 1987, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for the promotion of Ibero-American co-operation. In January 1989, he was awarded the Olof Palme Prize for International Understanding and Common Security by the Olof Palme Memorial Fund. In February 1989, he was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding. Mr. Perez de Cuellar is married and has two children.

At the age of 31 and after having served one year as secretary in the National Bank ofSweden, Mr. Hammarskjöld was appointed to the post of Permanent Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Finance. He concurrently served as Chairman of the National Bank's Board, from 1941 to 1948. Six of the Board's members are appointed by Parliament and the Chairman by the Government. This was the first time that one man had held both posts, the Chairmanship of the Bank's Board and that of Under-Secretary of the Finance Ministry.

Early in 1945, he was appointed an adviser to the Cabinet on financial and economic problems, organizing and coordinating, among other things, different governmental planning for the various economic problems that arose as a result of the war and the postwar period. During these years, Mr. Hammarskjöld played an important part in shapingSweden's financial policy. He led a series of trade and financial negotiations with other countries, among them theUnited Statesand theUnited Kingdom.