Professional Affiliation

COP30 President

Expert Bio

André Aranha Corrêa do Lago was born in 1959. He has a BSc in Economics from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1981) and joined the Brazilian foreign service in 1982. As a career diplomat, he has held functions in different areas at headquarters, in Brasília: international organizations, trade promotion, protocol and energy. Abroad, he has been posted to the Brazilian Embassies in Madrid, in Prague, in Washington, in Buenos Aires and to the Brazilian Mission to the EU in Brussels.

He has been working with the sustainable development agenda since 2001. He was the director of the Energy Department (2008-2011) and of the Environment Department (2011-2013) at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the latter period, he was Brazil´s chief negotiator for climate change and for the Rio+20 Conference. He was the Brazilian ambassador to Japan (2013-2018), to India (2018-2023) and to Bhutan (2019-2023). Since March 2023, he is the Secretary for Climate, Energy and Environment at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Corrêa do Lago is the author of several books and articles on sustainable development and climate change, as well as on architecture.