Ambassador Sergio Eduardo Moreira Lima was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 19, 1949. He is married and has three children. He was “Brazilian Student Leader” at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1970. He has a law degree from the University of Rio de Janeiro and is a licensed member of the Brazilian Bar Association. He is a career diplomat with a diplomacy degree from the Rio Branco Institute (1972) and a corresponding post-graduation and master's degree (1990) from the same institution. In addition to taking courses in diplomacy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. (1981) and New York University (1992), he received a master's degree in international law from the University of Oslo (2009).

Ambassador Moreira Lima served in the Brazilian Embassies in Washington (1979-1983) and Lisbon (1983-1986), in the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations in New York (1989-1992) and in the Brazilian Embassy in London (1995-1999). He was Ambassador of Brazil in Israel (with consular jurisdiction over the Palestinian territories) from 2003 to 2006 and non-resident Ambassador of Brazil to Cyprus; and in Norway from 2007 to 2011.

He was Deputy Head of the Protocol and Head of the Trade Policy Department and Secretary for Internal Control of the Ministry of External Relations in Brasilia. He was also Vice-President (1994) and President of the Council of Governors of the Common Fund for Commodities of the United Nations (1995-1997).

Ambassador Moreira Lima was the head of the Brazilian Delegation in many international conferences in the area of trade policy, trade in commodities and trade and environment. He was one of the Brazilian negotiators in the field of agriculture from 1992 to 1995, during the Uruguay Round of GATT.

He was a lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute of the State Department in Washington, D.C. (1981), at the Center for Latin-American Studies of the University of Oxford (1996-97), at the Rio Branco Institute (2001-2003) and at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2004), among others.

He is the author of articles on trade policies and wrote a thesis on diplomatic law, later published and re-published as a book. In 2006, he launched “A Time for Change,”with an introduction by Shimon Peres.

Besides the Rio Branco Order (Grã-Cruz), the highest decoration in the Diplomatic Service of Brazil, he was awarded decorations from different countries, such as the France’s Order of Merit, the Portugal’s Order of Christ, Britain’s Royal Victorian Order and the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.

Date: October 1, 2012 - 15:30 - 17:00
Building: 1023 Budapest, Frankel Leó út 30-34.
Room: 101
Event type: Lecture
Event audience: CEU Community + Invited Guests
CEU contact person: Davit Mikeladze

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Source: CEU Business School Budapest