Celso Amorim

Name: Paris Peace Forum 2025
Start: 2025-10-29T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-30T18:00:00+01:00

Federative Republic of Brazil / Paris Peace Forum

Chief Advisor of the President, Federative Republic of Brazil; Member of the Steering Committee, Paris Peace Forum

Description

Celso Amorim is a graduate of the Rio Branco Institute, the prestigious Brazilian diplomatic academy, and has done post-graduate studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has served as Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Itamar Franco (1993-1994), and again under President Lula da Silva (2003-2010), and as Minister of Defense under President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2014). Ambassador Celso Amorim is the longest serving foreign minister of Brazil to date.