Abstract

The Centre of Rising Powers (CRP) and the Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS) are pleased to invite you to the talk

“Brazilian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century”

by Ambassador Celso Amorim, Brazil’s former Minister of Foreign Relations under the Lula administration (2003-2010).

All are welcome. The event will be followed by a wine reception.

Celso Amorim served as Minister of Foreign Relations (1993-1994 and 2003-2010), and as Minister of Defence (2011-2014) of Brazil. Prior to that, he served as the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations in Geneva (1991-1993) and the World Trade Organization (1999-2001), as the Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations in New York (1995-1999) and as Ambassador to the United Kingdom (2002). He was also Chief Executive Officer of the Brazilian Film Corporation (Embrafilme) from 1979 to 1982 and served as Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology (1985-1988). This year UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Celso Amorim to be a member of the UN High-Level Panel on Global Response to Health Crises. He is the author of several books and other publications on Culture, Science and Technology Policy and International Relations. His latest book is entitled Teerã, Ramalá e Doha (2015).