Senior Fellow at the Brazilian Center of International Relations (CEBRI). Benoni Belli is a career diplomat and the current Consul-General of Brazil in Chicago, USA. Former Director of the Department for the United States of America (2019-2020) and Director of Diplomatic Planning (2017-2019) at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also served in Brazilian embassies in Buenos Aires (2002 a 2006), Algiers (2006 a 2008), and Washington, DC (2013-2017) , as well as in the Brazilian Permanent Mission to the United Nations, in New York City (1999 a 2002).

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, a Master’s in Political Science from the University of Campinas, and holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Brasília. He has authored the books "Tolerância Zero e Democracia no Brasil" (Zero Tolerance and Democracy in Brazil) and "A Politização dos Direitos Humanos" (The Politicization of Human Rights), as well as co-organized the volume “The Road Ahead: the 21st Century World Order in the Eyes of Policy Planners,” published by the Alexandre de Gusmão Foundation (FUNAG) in 2018.