Miriam leitao celso amorim biography
Home / Political Leaders & Public Figures / Miriam leitao celso amorim biography
On 7 October 2009, Amorim was named the "world"s best foreign minister" by Foreign Policy magazine blogger David Rothkopf. He was Minister of Foreign Relations during the mandates of presidents Itamar Franco and Lula da Silva, and Minister of Defence during the first mandate of President Dilma Rousseff, spending in total almost thirteen years in cabinet posts.
Background
Amorim was born in Santos, São Paulo, on 3 June 1942. He wrote books and articles on subjects ranging from culture to International Relations. He was a lecturer at the Universidade de Brasilia (UnB) and was President of Embrafilme (Brazilian Film Corporation). On 19 July 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 World Trade Organization talks to the work of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
November
18:00 Opening lecture for the conference International Aspects of Defence Policy in Brazil: Brazilian Defence in International Perspective.
Watch this lecture on YouTube.
Biography:
Celso Amorim was born in Santos (SP) in 1942.
Ambassador Amorim’s visit to the Brazil Institute was made possible as a result of support from the Faculty Education Fund (SSPP).
Schedule:
Monday 2 November
18:00 - Inaugural Lecture: Constructing Multipolarity: the Brazilian Perspective
Stamford Street Lecture Theatre
127 Stamford St
London SE1 9NQ
Watch this lecture on YouTube.
Tuesday 3 November
13:00 – 16:00 – Personal meetings with PhD students (3 meetings, each lasting one hour)
Wednesday 4 November
9:00 – 12:00 - Personal meetings with PhD students (3 meetings of one hour each)
14:00 – Roundtable discussion in collaboration with War Studies Department and Conflict Security & Development Research Group.
Theme: The Brazilian Perspective in the Iran deal.
Listen to this discussion on SoundCloud.
Tuesday 10 November
10:00 – 12:00 Workshop in collaboration with The War Studies Department
Title: Brazil as a Rising Power in Contemporary Global Politics.
Listen to this workshop by clicking here.
Wednesday 11.
Foreign Policy magazine referred to him in 2009 as the “world’s best foreign minister,” and in 2010 placed him sixth in its list of “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” His memoir, Acting Globally: Memoirs of Brazil’s Assertive Foreign Policy, was published in 2017. He was Brazil’s Foreign Minister under Presidents Franco and Lula and Minister of Defense under President Rousseff.
State Department.
Membership
He is a permanent member of the Foreign Affairs Department of the University of São Paulo Institute of Advanced Studies. Amorim has received several national and foreign awards, including the Star of Jerusalem by the Palestinian National Authority. 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.
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.
This brought a swift condemnation from the United States. He made post-graduate studies at The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
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.
GTI Contributions
October 2017
In a multipolar world, developing nations like Brazil are playing a larger role in international diplomacy.
He is married to Ana Maria Amorim, and has four children and ten grandchildren.
Recent Publications:
Interview on BBC's HARDtalk
Ambassador Celso Amorim's visit was coordinated in collaboration with The Conflict, Security & Development Research Group and partially funded by the Faculty Education Fund - SSPP.
-
The King's Brazil Institute would like to especially thank Ambassador Eduardo dos Santos and the Brazilian Embassy in London, whose assistance was fundamental in making this visit by Ambassador Amorim possible.
.
He received more than fifty Brazilian and foreign medals and decorations, and was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree by Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB).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.
The Brazil Institute is honoured to have hosted His Excellency, Ambassador Celso Amorim, as a Distinguished Visiting Professor from 1 November to 15 November 2015. During the length of this stay, he held a range of public lectures, workshops and personal tutorials for PhD students.
Former Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim offers insights from the front line.
Celso Amorim
DiplomatMinistry of External Relations (Brazil
Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim is a Brazilian diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations from 1993 to 1995 under President Itamar Franco and again from 2003 to 2011 under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and as Minister of Defence from August 2011 to December 2014 under President Dilma Rousseff.
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 World Trade Organization later that year, and served for two years before becoming ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2001.
His more recent works include Conversas com jovens diplomatas (2011); Breves narrativas diplomáticas (2013); Teerã, Ramalá e Doha: memórias da política externa ativa e altiva (March 2015). He served as Ambassador in Geneva and in London, as President of the United Nations Security Council.
After a short incursion into film making, he started his diplomatic career in 1963, when he enrolled at Instituto Rio Branco (The Brazilian Diplomatic Academy).