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Celso Amorim
Amorim in 2010
Chief Advisor to the President
Assumed office
5 January 2023
PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded byOffice established
Minister of Defence
In office
5 August 2011 – 31 December 2014
PresidentDilma Rousseff
Preceded byNelson Jobim
Succeeded byJaques Wagner
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
1 January 2003 – 31 December 2010
PresidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Preceded byCelso Lafer
Succeeded byAntonio Patriota
In office
20 July 1993 – 31 December 1994
PresidentItamar Franco
Preceded byFernando Henrique Cardoso
Succeeded byLuiz Felipe Lampreia
Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom
In office
16 December 2001 – 27 December 2002
Nominated byFernando Henrique Cardoso
Preceded bySérgio Amaral
Succeeded byJosé Bustani
Secretary General of Foreign Affairs
In office
23 June 1993 – 1 September 1993
PresidentItamar Franco
Preceded byLuiz Felipe Lampreia
Succeeded byRoberto Abdenur
Personal details
Born
Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim

(1942-06-03) 3 June 1942 (age 81)
Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
Political partyWorkers' Party (since 2009)
Other political
affiliations		PMDB (1980–2009)
SpouseAna Maria Amorim
Children4
Alma mater
Profession
  • Diplomat
  • politician
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Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim (born 3 June 1942) is a Brazilian diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 20 July 1993 to 31 December 1994 under President Itamar Franco and again from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2010 under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He was Minister of Defence from 5 August 2011 to 31 December 2014 under President Dilma Rousseff.[1][2]

Before his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs by Lula, Amorim served as Brazil's ambassador to the United Kingdom.[3] On 7 October 2009, Amorim was named the "world's best foreign minister" by Foreign Policy magazine blogger David Rothkopf.[4]

On 5 January 2023, Amorim was appointed as Chief Advisor of the Presidency of Brazil by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.[5]

Early life and academic career

Amorim was born in Santos, São Paulo, on June 3, 1942.

He graduated from the Rio Branco Institute, a graduate school of international relations run by the Ministry of External Relations, in 1965, and obtained a post-graduate degree in International Relations from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in 1967.

Amorim was a professor of Portuguese language at the Rio Branco Institute, as well as professor of political science and international relations at the University of Brasília. He is a permanent member of the Foreign Affairs Department of the University of São Paulo Institute of Advanced Studies.

Governmental career

Amorim has a long history of government service, beginning in 1987 when he was appointed Secretary for International Affairs for the Ministry of Science and Technology. He served in that position until 1989, when he was selected to be the Director-General for Cultural Affairs in the Ministry of External Relations. Amorim was shifted again in 1990, moving to a new post as Director-General for Economic Affairs. In 1993, he was promoted to the position of Secretary General of the Brazilian foreign-affairs agency.

While serving in the Ministry of External Relations, Amorim spent large amounts of time working as an ambassador to the United Nations. Most notably, he represented Brazil on the Kosovo–Yugoslavia sanctions committee in 1998, and the Security Council panel on Iraq in 1999. Amorim was named as Brazil's permanent ambassador to the United Nations and the WTO later that year, and served for two years before becoming ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2001.

WTO controversy

On July 19, 2008, Amorim stirred up controversy by comparing the descriptions used by wealthier countries to characterize the agricultural concessions they were offering during the Doha Round of WTO talks to the work of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. This brought a swift condemnation from the U.S. State Department.[6]

Later career

Celso serves on the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, chaired by Madeleine Albright and Ibrahim Gambari. In November 2016, he was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines, co-chaired by Ruth Dreifuss, former President of Switzerland, and Festus Mogae, former President of Botswana.[7]

In addition, Celso holds a number of honorary positions, including the following:

In 2019, Amorim joined the inaugural meeting of the Puebla Group in Buenos Aires, a conference of left-leaning political leaders.[10]

Personal life

Amorim is married to Ana Maria Amorim and has four children: Vicente, Anita, João, and Pedro.[11]

References

  1. ^ Brazil will not 'sell' Amazon Archived March 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Gulfnews
  2. ^ Brazil's Defense Minister Is Ousted WSJ. Retrieved on 2011-08-04.
  3. ^ CV of Celso Amorim on Ministry of External Relations website Archived October 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ David Rothkopf (2009-10-07). "The world’s best foreign minister", Foreign Policy.
  5. ^ "Ex-chanceler Celso Amorim é nomeado para chefiar assessoria especial de Lula". G1. 5 January 2023.
  6. ^ Klapper, Bradley S. (2008-07-19). "Brazil official's Nazi reference rocks WTO talks". Newsvine. Associated Press. Retrieved 2009-08-04.
  7. ^ Secretary-General Appoints Two Former Presidents, 14 Others as Members of High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines United Nations, press release of 19 November 2015.
  8. ^ Unitaid welcomes Brazil’s Celso Amorim as new Unitaid Chair and the UK’s Sarah Boulton as Vice Chair Unitaid, press release of 23 June 2017.
  9. ^ Board of Advisors Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD).
  10. ^ Nicolás Misculin (November 9, 2019), Argentina's Fernandez joins leftist leaders for 'Puebla Group' summit Reuters.
  11. ^ "Minister of External Relations: Ambassador Celso Amorim". Ministry of External Relations. Archived from the original on 2008-10-16. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
Political offices Preceded byFernando Henrique Cardoso Minister of Foreign Affairs 1993–94; 2003–10 Succeeded byLuiz Felipe Lampreia Preceded byCelso Lafer Succeeded byAntonio Patriota Preceded byNelson Jobim Minister of Defence 2011–15 Succeeded byJaques Wagner New office Chief Advisor to the President 2023–present Incumbent
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