Celso Amorim has served as Brazil’s Minister of Foreign Relations under President Itamar Franco (1993-1994), and again under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), and as Minister of Defense under President Dilma Rousseff (2011-2014). He is the longest serving foreign minister of Brazil to date. Amorim was most recently the Chair of UNITAID, a global health initiative focused on ending HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and hosted by the World Health Organization. In recent years, Amorim was Chief of the Organization of American States Mission of Electoral Observation in Haiti, and member of the UN Secretary General's High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines. In 2015, he was a member of the UN Secretary General's High-Level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises. In his long career as a civil servant, Amorim held several posts. He was a lecturer at the Universidade de Brasilia (UnB) and at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), both prestigious Brazilian universities. Besides, Amorim was president of Embrafilme, the Brazilian Film Corporation (1969 -1982). He was also an adviser to the Minister of Science and Technology (1985-1988) and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1995-1999). Most notably, he chaired the Kosovo – Yugoslavia sanctions committee in 1998, and three Security Council panels on Iraq in 1999, dealing with disarmament, humanitarian impact of economic sanctions and Kuwaiti war prisoners. Amorim also served twice as Permanent Representative of Brazil in Geneva, both to UN bodies as well as the GATT and WTO. While in Geneva, he was President of the Conference on Disarmament in 1993 and again in 2000. Among other entities and institutions, Amorim chaired the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization, the Commission for The Convention of Tobacco Control in the World Health Organization and the Council on Services of WTO. His last ambassadorial post was in London to The Court of Saint James. Amorim remains active in academic life and as a public figure, having written a number of books and articles on matters ranging from foreign policy to culture. His latest work (recently published in English), Acting Globally, Memoirs of Brazil’s Assertive Foreign Policy was presented at several prestigious universities in the United States - such as The New School (NY), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard Kennedy School, University of Denver, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and at King’s College, in London. Celso Amorim was also a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School in 2011 and 2015 and a Distinguished Fellow in King’s College also in 2015. He has participated in several Think Tanks, Committees and Panels, such as International Crisis Group (ICG), New Global Progressive Construct Convention (Foundation for European Progressive Studies - FEPS) and Common Action Forum (CAF), in which he is part of the Body of Trustees.In recognition of his dedication to international public service, Amorim has received several national and foreign awards. He was named as one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Top Global Thinkers in 2010 (ranked as number six).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.Celso Amorim currently holds the position of Chief Advisor to the President of Brazil.