Marcia DONNER ABREU is the Ambassador of Brazil to South Korea since July 25, 2022. She holds a B.A. in Law (Candido Mendes College, Rio de Janeiro) and postgraduate degrees in Development (Jnstitut Universitaire d'Etudes du Developpement, Geneva) and in International Law (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva).
After graduating from Brazil's Diplomatic Academy in 1987, she covered issues such as environment, sustainable development and trade negotiations. In her stints abroad, she was posted to Washington D.C. (1991-1995 and 2001-2005), Montevideo (2005-2007) and Beijing (2005-2007), and served as Deputy Permanent Delegate of Brazil to UNESCO (2009-2011), Deputy Permanent Representative of Brazil to the World Trade Organization 2012-2018), Ambassador of Brazil to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan (2018). Back to Brazil in 2019, she holds the positions of Secretary (Vice-Minister) for Communications and Culture (2019-20) and Secretary for Asia-Pacific and Russia (2020-22).
She was born in Florianopolis, southern Brazil, in 1961, and has one adult daughter.