1. Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim was born on 3 June 1942 and 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 Inacio Lula da Silva.
Celso Amorim was Minister of Defence from 5 August 2011 to 31 December 2014 under President Dilma Rousseff.
On 7 October 2009, Celso Amorim was named the "world's best foreign minister" by Foreign Policy magazine blogger David Rothkopf.
On 5 January 2023, Celso Amorim was appointed as Chief Advisor for Foreign Policy by Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Celso Amorim was born in Santos, Sao Paulo, on June 3,1942.
Celso Amorim 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.
Celso 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 Brasilia.
Celso Amorim is a permanent member of the Foreign Affairs Department of the University of Sao Paulo Institute of Advanced Studies.
Celso 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.
Celso Amorim served in that position until 1989, when he was selected to be the Director-General for Cultural Affairs in the Ministry of External Relations.
Celso Amorim was shifted again in 1990, moving to a new post as Director-General for Economic Affairs.
Celso 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.
Celso Amorim became Foreign Affairs Minister between January 2003 and December 2010.
On 22 July 2005, Celso Amorim was the subject that the 27-year old Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by police onboard a tube in Stockwell tube station, a day after the failed 21 July 2005 London bombings.
On July 19,2008, Celso 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.
In 2019, Celso Amorim joined the inaugural meeting of the Puebla Group in Buenos Aires, a conference of left-leaning political leaders.
Celso Amorim is married to Ana Maria Celso Amorim and has four children: Vicente, Anita, Joao, and Pedro.