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{{short description|Brazilian diplomat (born 1942)}}
{{Expand Portuguese|topic=bio|Celso Amorim|date=October 2018}}
{{Portuguese name|Nunes|Amorim}}
{{Infobox Politician (general)
|birthname = Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim
|image = Celso Amorim 2017 (cropped 3x4).jpg
|caption = Amorim in 2017
|office = Chief Advisor to the [[President of Brazil]] for Foreign Policy
|term_start = 5 January 2023
|term_end =
|president = [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]]
|predecessor = 
|successor =
|office1 = [[Ministry of Defence (Brazil)|Minister of Defence]]
|term_start1 = 5 August 2011
|term_end1 = 31 December 2014
|president1 = [[Dilma Rousseff]]
|predecessor1 = [[Nelson Jobim]]
|successor1 = [[Jaques Wagner]]
|office2 = [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Brazil)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
|term_start2 = 1 January 2003
|term_end2 = 31 December 2010
|president2 = [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]]
|predecessor2 = [[Celso Lafer]]
|successor2 = [[Antonio Patriota]]
|term_start3 = 20 July 1993
|term_end3 = 31 December 1994
|president3 = [[Itamar Franco]]
|predecessor3 = [[Fernando Henrique Cardoso]]
|successor3 = [[Luiz Felipe Lampreia]]
|office4 = [[Embassy of Brazil, London|Ambassador of Brazil to the United&nbsp;Kingdom]]
|term_start4 = 16 December 2001
|term_end4 = 27 December 2002
|nominator4 = [[Fernando Henrique Cardoso]]
|predecessor4 = [[Sérgio Amaral]]
|successor4 = [[José Bustani]]
|office5 = [[Secretary General of Foreign Affairs (Brazil)|Secretary General of Foreign Affairs]]
|term_start5 = 23 June 1993
|term_end5 = 1 September 1993
|president5 = [[Itamar Franco]]
|predecessor5 = [[Luiz Felipe Lampreia]]
|successor5 = Roberto Abdenur
|profession = {{hlist|Diplomat|politician}}
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|06|03|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Santos (São Paulo)|Santos]], [[São Paulo (state)|São Paulo]], Brazil
|spouse = Ana Maria Amorim
|children = 4
|alma_mater= {{plainlist|
* [[Rio Branco Institute]]
* [[Diplomatic Academy of Vienna]]
}}
|party= [[Workers' Party (Brazil)|Workers' Party]] (since 2009)
|otherparty= [[Brazilian Democratic Movement Party|PMDB]] (1980–2009)
|signature =Celso Amorim signature.jpg
}}
'''Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim''' (born 3 June 1942) is a Brazilian diplomat who served as [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Brazil)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] from 20 July 1993 to 31 December 1994 under [[President of Brazil|President]] [[Itamar Franco]] and again from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2010 under President [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]]. He was [[Ministry of Defence (Brazil)|Minister of Defence]] from 5 August 2011 to 31 December 2014 under President [[Dilma Rousseff]].<ref name=AMAZON>[http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/10/19/10075873.html Brazil will not 'sell' Amazon] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070308134527/http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/10/19/10075873.html |date=March 8, 2007 }} Gulfnews</ref><ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903366504576488662713859144 Brazil's Defense Minister Is Ousted] [[WSJ]]. Retrieved on 2011-08-04.</ref>

Before his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs by Lula, Amorim served as Brazil's [[ambassador]] to the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>[http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/structure/foreing_relations/organizational/minister_foreign.asp CV of Celso Amorim on Ministry of External Relations website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016002729/http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/structure/foreing_relations/organizational/minister_foreign.asp |date=October 16, 2008 }}</ref> On 7 October 2009, Amorim was named the "world's best foreign minister" by ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' magazine blogger David Rothkopf.<ref>David Rothkopf (2009-10-07). [https://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/07/the-worlds-best-foreign-minister/ "The world’s best foreign minister"], ''Foreign Policy''.</ref> On 5 January 2023, Amorim was appointed as Chief Advisor for Foreign Policy by [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2023/01/05/ex-chanceler-celso-amorim-e-nomeado-para-chefiar-assessoria-especial-de-lula.ghtml|title=Ex-chanceler Celso Amorim é nomeado para chefiar assessoria especial de Lula|date=5 January 2023|website=G1}}</ref>

==Early life and academic career==
Amorim was born in [[Santos (São Paulo)|Santos]], [[Sao Paulo (state)|São Paulo]], on June 3, 1942. 

He 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.

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]]. He is a permanent member of the Foreign Affairs Department of the [[University of São Paulo]] Institute of Advanced Studies.

==Governmental career==
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. 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.

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]] [[International sanctions|sanctions]] [[committee]] in 1998, and the [[United Nations Security Council|Security Council]] panel on [[Iraq]] in 1999. Amorim was named as Brazil's permanent ambassador to the United Nations and the [[World Trade Organization|WTO]] later that year, and served for two years before becoming ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2001.

He became Foreign Affairs Minister between January 2003 and December 2010. On 22 July 2005, 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]].

===WTO controversy===
On July 19, 2008, Amorim stirred up controversy by comparing the descriptions used by wealthier countries to characterize the agricultural concessions they were offering during the [[Doha Development Round|Doha Round]] of WTO talks to the work of [[Nazi]] propagandist [[Joseph Goebbels]].  This brought a swift condemnation from the [[United States Department of State|U.S. State Department]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/19/1679722-brazil-officials-nazi-reference-rocks-wto-talks|title=Brazil official's Nazi reference rocks WTO talks|last=Klapper|first=Bradley S.|date=2008-07-19|agency=[[Associated Press]]|publisher=[[Newsvine]]|accessdate=2009-08-04}}</ref>

==Later career==
Celso serves on the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, chaired by [[Madeleine Albright]] and [[Ibrahim Gambari]]. In November 2016, he was appointed by [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[Ban Ki-moon]] to the High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines, co-chaired by [[Ruth Dreifuss]], former President of [[Switzerland]], and [[Festus Mogae]], former President of [[Botswana]].<ref>[https://www.un.org/press/en/2015/sga1608.doc.htm Secretary-General Appoints Two Former Presidents, 14 Others as Members of High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines] [[United Nations]], press release of 19 November 2015.</ref> 

In addition, Celso holds a number of honorary positions, including the following:
* [[Unitaid]], Chair of the Executive Board (since 2017)<ref>[https://unitaid.org/news-blog/unitaid-welcomes-brazils-celso-amorim-new-unitaid-chair-uks-sarah-boulton-vice-chair/#en Unitaid welcomes Brazil’s Celso Amorim as new Unitaid Chair and the UK’s Sarah Boulton as Vice Chair] [[Unitaid]], press release of 23 June 2017.</ref>
* Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), Member of the Board of Advisors<ref>[https://www.cirsd.org/en/leadership/board Board of Advisors] Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD).</ref>

In 2019, Amorim joined the inaugural meeting of the Puebla Group in Buenos Aires, a conference of left-leaning political leaders.<ref>Nicolás Misculin (November 9, 2019), [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-argentina-puebla-group/argentinas-fernandez-joins-leftist-leaders-for-puebla-group-summit-idUSKBN1XJ0CB Argentina's Fernandez joins leftist leaders for 'Puebla Group' summit] ''[[Reuters]]''.</ref>

==Personal life==
Amorim is married to Ana Maria Amorim and has four children: Vicente, Anita, João, and Pedro.<ref name="mre">{{cite web |url=http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/structure/foreing_relations/organizational/minister_foreign.asp |title=Minister of External Relations: Ambassador Celso Amorim |work=Ministry of External Relations |accessdate=2008-11-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016002729/http://www.mre.gov.br/ingles/structure/foreing_relations/organizational/minister_foreign.asp |archivedate=2008-10-16 }}</ref>

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