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Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti is one of the most popular and richest Diplomat who was born on March 27, 1954 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The year 1999 was the time that Viotti was appointed to the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations as a Minister-Counselor. Viotti was Vice-Chairperson for the Preparatory Committee for the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development and was in charge of Brazil’s delegation during the negotiations that were in preparation to the International Conference on Financing for Development. Viotti was also a part of the Council’s Economic and Social Ad Hoc Group on Guinea-Bissau.

At the end of 2015, Viotti was appointed as a future candidate to the post of Secretary-General of the UN. Being a close friend of several Permanent Representatives for decades; having played an important part in assuring the stability and conciliation of political forces in Afghanistan; and having long worked for human rights advances and social development in the poorest countries, she was the Brazilian favourite.

In December 2016, incoming UN Secretary General António Guterres appointed her as his Chef de Cabinet.

Viotti was Counselor of the Brazilian Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, from 1993 until 1995 as well as from 1985 until 1989 Viotti was the First Secretary for the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations, when she began to specialize in specific areas of the UN System.

Viotti is a bachelor’s student in the field of economics, from the University of Brasilia, which she earned in 1979. She also holds a postgraduate degree in the same area which she obtained in 1981 from the same institution. She was a student at in the Rio Branco Institute, the Brazilian diplomatic academy.

In 2005, Viotti assumed the post of Chargé d’affaires of Brazil to the United Nations, and she was appointed Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on 5 January 2007. Viotti presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 25 July 2007. Viotti was the President of the United Nations Security Council for the month of February 2011, when Brazil held the rotating presidency of the Council. Viotti was succeeded by Luiz Alberto Figueiredo on 16 January 2013.