His Excellency Ambassador Alexandre Guido Lopes Parola

Alexandre Guido Lopes Parola currently serves in the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other economic organizations in Geneva since October 2018. Previously, Ambassador Parola held positions in the Brazilian Government, including advisor at the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1991), the Cabinet of the Minister of Economy, Finance and Planning (1992) and at the Special Advisory to the Presidency of the Republic (1999); Spokesperson for the President of the Republic of Brazil (2002, 2016-2018); Director of the Economic Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2015) and President of Brazil Communication Enterprise - EBC (2018). Ambassador Parola also worked in various positions abroad: Embassy in Washington (1993), Embassy in Santiago (1997), Mission of Brazil in Geneva (2006) and Embassy in London (2011).

The Ambassador has extensive experience in trade negotiations and has held relevant positions as Head of Delegation to the Group of Economic and Trade Issues (BRICS) meetings in Moscow (2015). Ambassador Parola has been a diplomat since 1988, with a bachelors degree in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in 1985, a masters degree in Economics from the University of Brasília in 1991, a PhD in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America in 2003 and a post doctorate in International Relations and Foreign Policy by the University of Oxford in 2003.