Career diplomat, currently the Consul General of Brazil in Los Angeles. He studied at Colégio Santo Inácio (1971-1981) and has undergraduate (1982-1985) and graduate (1986-1987) degrees in Economics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ.
In 1988, he joined the Brazilian Foreign Service ("Itamaraty") and was subsequently promoted to the rank of Ambassador in 2018. As a diplomat, he served in the Embassies of Brazil in Washington D.C. (1994-1997), Mexico City (1997-2000) and Lisbon (2003-2005), and as Deputy Permanent Delegate of Brazil to UNESCO in Paris (2012-2017).
In Brasilia, he was advisor to the Director of the Administration Department (1990-1993), assistant to the Chancellor (2001-2002) and head of the Division of Multilateral Cultural Affairs (2005-2008). He also served as special advisor to the Minister of Mines and Energy (2000-2001 and 2018), director of International Relations at the Ministry of Culture (2008-2012), international advisor to the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Representatives (2017-2018), special advisor to the Speaker of the House (2019-2020), and international advisor to the Foreign Relations Committee of the Federal Senate (2021).