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The Ambassador

His Excellency Carlos Augusto R. Santos-Neves, Ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Ambassador Carlos Augusto R. Santos-Neves was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1944. He joined the Brazilian diplomatic service in 1966 and was first appointed an ambassador in 1987.

Diplomatic assignments abroad

• (2003 - February 2008) Ambassador to the Russian Federation
• (2003 - February 2008) Non-resident Ambassador to Belarus, Georgia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
• (2003 - 2006) Non-resident Ambassador to Kazakhstan
• (2001 - 2003) Consul General in Houston
• (1996 - 1999) Ambassador to Canada
• (1992 - 1996) Ambassador to Mexico
• (1995 - 1996) Non-resident Ambassador to Belize
• (1988 - 1992) Consul General in New York
• Other postings: Buenos Aires (Embassy); Hong Kong (Consulate General); Geneva (Delegation to UN/GATT)

Diplomatic posts in Brazil

• (1999 - 2001) Secretary for Policy Planning to the Foreign Minister
• (1985 - 1988) Chief of Staff to the Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry
• (1977 - 1979) Assistant to the Foreign Minister

Academic background

• (1981) Instituto Rio Branco (Brazilian diplomatic academy), Brasília: Doctorate
• (1969 - 1970) Columbia University, New York: Postgraduate course in Political Science
• (1968) Fundação Getulio Vargas (Getulio Vargas Foundation) - Postgraduate School of Economics, Rio de Janeiro: MBA in Finance
• (1965) Instituto Rio Branco, Brasília: BA Summa cum Laude

Honours and Decorations - Foreign

• Argentina
• Chile
• Denmark
• France (Legion of Honour, Order of Merit)
• Germany
• Mexico
• Nigeria
• Venezuela (Francisco de Miranda, Simon Bolívar)

Honours and Decorations - Brazilian

• Order of Rio Branco
• Order of the Navy
• Order of the Army
• Order of the Air Force

Family

• Married to Mary Joan Hershberger (from Dayton, Ohio), who holds a BA in History from the University of Wisconsin and an MA in Latin American Studies from New York University
• Children:
• Miguel-Edward, 29 (BA in History from Brown University, Rhode Island, United States; currently PhD research fellow in Comparative Literature)
• Carolina-Louise, 27 (BA in History from Brown University; currently editor at the Epicurious culinary website in New York)
• Gabriel-Charles, 20 (reading History at Edinburgh University, Scotland)