Benoni Belli is a Senior Fellow at CEBRI and currently serves as the Permanent Representative (Ambassador) of Brazil to the OAS. Throughout his diplomatic career, he has served in the following positions abroad: Consul General of Brazil in Chicago (2020 to 2023); Head of Chancery and Minister-Counselor at the Embassy of Brazil in Washington (2013 to 2017); Embassy in Algiers (2006 to 2008); Embassy in Buenos Aires (2002 to 2006); and the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations in New York (1999 to 2002). At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Brasília, he recently held the positions of Director of the United States Department (2019 to 2020) and Secretary for Diplomatic Planning (2017-2018).

A law graduate from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), he holds a master’s degree in political science from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Brasília (UnB). He is the author of the books “Zero Tolerance and Democracy in Brazil” and “The Politicization of Human Rights”, both published by Perspectiva in São Paulo. He is also a co-editor of the books: “The Road Ahead: The 21st-Century World Order in the Eyes of Policy Planners”, published in 2018 by the Alexandre de Gusmão Foundation (FUNAG); “Colonial Legacies in the Luso-Brazilian World”, published in 2022 by the Newberry Library of Chicago; and “Brazil and the World: Studies on the Thought of Gelson Fonseca Junior”, published in 2023 by FUNAG.