Maria Clara de Abreu Rada

H.E. Maria Clara de Abreu Rada is a First Class Minister in the Brazilian Diplomatic Service and the Ambassador of Brazil to Serbia.

She holds a degree in Economics from the University of Brasília (1987) and has dedicated more than three decades to diplomatic service, both in Brazil and abroad. Her senior positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs include Director of the Department of Technology and Information Management, Chief of Staff to the Undersecretary-General for the Foreign Service, and Coordinator at the same office.

Her international career has taken her to the Brazilian Embassies in Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Budapest, and Tirana, where she served as Minister-Counsellor and Head of Chancellery. She has also participated in special missions, including the reopening of the Consulate General in Istanbul.

Ambassador Rada is the author of a thesis at the Rio Branco Institute: “The Reform of the Brazilian Chancellery in the Lula and Dilma Period – The Transformation of the Means for the Execution of Foreign Policy” (2014). She has been recognized with several decorations, including the Order of Rio Branco (Commander, 2015; Grand Cross, 2022).

Born in Brasília in 1966, she is the daughter of Paulo Victor Rada de Rezende and Oneil de Abreu Rada, and is married to Francisco Carlos Ramalho de Carvalho Chagas.