RESUMÉ

Born in Rio de Janeiro, March 14, 1917. 
Married, three children, eight grandchildren. 
Wife: Dorothy Ann Hessee de Meira Penna, formerly from Durham, NC, USA.

Address: SMPW Quadra 15, conj.6, casa 7, Brasília, DF
71745-150, Brazil.
Telephone: 55. 61. 380 1930. 
Facs:55. 61. 380 2420.
E-mail: meirapen@zaz.com.br.
Home page: www.meirapenna.org 

Diplomatic career:

Entered the Brazilian Foreign Service through examinations, 1938, Rio. Vice-Consul in Calcutta (1940) and Shanghai (1940/42); Second Secretary of Embassy, Ankara (Turkey), 1944/47); Chargé d´Affaires in Nanking, China (1947/49). Chargé d´Affaires San José de Costa Rica (1951); First Secretary, Embassy in Ottawa (1952); Assistant to Brazilian Mission to UN, New York (1953/56); Member of Delegation to the General Assemblies, Security Council and Economic and Social Council, same years. Counsellor of Embassy, 1956. Head of Cultural Department, Ministry of External Relations, Rio, 1956/59. Head of Brazilian Delegation to General Conference, UNESCO, Paris, 1958. Minister Second-Class, 1959. Consul-General in Zürich (1960/63). First Brazilian Ambassador to Nigeria (1964/65). Assistant Secretary-General for Planning, ad interim, (1965), Assistant Secretary-General for Eastern Europe and Asia (1966/67). Minister First Class (1966). Ambassador to Israel and Cyprus (1967/70). Ambassador to Norway and Iceland (1974/77). Ambassador to Ecuador (1978/79. Ambassador to Poland (1980/81). Retired, June 1981. Residing in Brasília since.

Education and University Life

           Lycée Janson de Sailly (Paris 1927/1929) Lycée Français, in Rio (1930/34); Bachelor of Juridical and Social Sciences, University of Brazil, Rio, 1939. Courses at the Department of Anthropology, East Asian Institute and Latin American Seminars, Columbia University, (NY, 1954/56). Graduated Brazilian War College (Escola Superior de Guerra), Rio 1965. Refresher courses, same (1975 & 1980). Analytical Psychology, C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich. Frequent lecturer at same, Küznach, ZH, Switzerland.

Visting Professor. Department of International Relations and Political Science, University of Brasília (1982/89).

Jornal do Brasil, Rio (1968/84). Visão magazine, S.Paulo (1978/84). Digesto Econômico, S.Paulo, and occasionally Correio Braziliense, Brasília. Weekly column in Jornal da Tarde , S.Paulo (since 1982); and  occasionally O Estado de São Paulo, SP. Also A Tarde, of  Salvador, and various other papers  in  Brazil  and abroad: La Prensa of Buenos Aires; El Diario of  La Paz; El Universal of Caracas; El Comercio of Lima; El Heraldo of Mexico, etc. Articles have appeared in Diogène (UNESCO, Paris); Journal of Religion &  Health, NY; Global Affairs, NY; UNISA- Latin American Report, Pretoria; The World and I (Washington, USA); Humboldt Magazine for the Latin American World, Bonn. Deutsch-Brasilian. Hefte-Bonn.

MAIN ARTICLES IN FOREIGN MAGAZINES

Diògene, Paris, nº 91, July 1975. Brasília, Quinze Ans Après.

Diògene Unesco Paris. nº 112, Oct. 1980. Le masque et le Double. Étude sur les problèmes de race au Brésil. “Racial Problems in Brazil”.

Catholicism in Crisis, Washington (July 1983). The US as Scapegoat.

Journal of Religion and Health, NY, v. 24, n. 3, 1985. A Psychological Approach to Ethics.

Global Affairs (Summer 1986,). NY. Brazil & Moral Equivalence.

The World and I – (Washington, March 1991). Vargas and Peron: Two Tyrants.

Third Summit Council for World Peace (Moscow, April 1990). Perestroika & Glasnost in Latin America.

CONTRIBUTIONS ABROAD:

The Soviet Union and Latin America, Ed. Gregory Oswald, Praeger NY, 1968/70. Geopolitics of the Southern Cone, Lynne Riener Publishers, Boulder and London 1988. Editor of the Brazilian Edition  of Counterpoint, Washington. (1985/92).

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

Assistant for Foreign Affairs to the Minister of Education (1971-73)

Member of the Technical Council of the National Confederation of Commerce. Rio. 1985

Co-founder and Acting President of the Tocqueville Society, Rio de Janeiro, S. Paulo, Brasília.

Member Academia Brasiliense de Letras (Academy of Letters of Brasília), 1995.  

Member of the Mont Pèlerin Society. 1992.

President, Liberal Institute, Brasília.

BOOKS PUBLISHED:

Shanghai - Aspectos Históricos da China Moderna (Shanghai -Historical Aspects of Modern China), Americ. Edit. 1944. Out of print.

O Sonho de Sarumoto (The Dream of Sarumoto) – Rio, 1948.Out of print.

Quando Mudam da Capitais (When Capitals are Changed), Novacap – Rio, 1958. Out of Print

Política Externa, Segurança e Desenvolvimento (Foreign Policy. Security and Development) - AGIR Rio, 1967.

Em Berço Esplêndido. Ensaios de Psicologia Coletiva Brasileira. (On a Splendid Cradle. Essays on a Collective Psychology of the Brazilian People) José Olímpio-INL, Rio 1974. Out of Print.

O Elogio do Burro (In Praise of the Donkey). AGIR, Rio 1980.

O Brasil da Idade da Razão (Brazil in the Age of Reason), Forense Universitária/INL. Rio, 1980. Out of Print.

A Ideologia do Século XX (The Ideology of the XXth Century). Convívio. S.Paulo, 1985. Reprinted Edit. Nórdica & Liberal Institute, Rio 1994

O Evangelho Segundo Marx (The Gospel according to Marx).Convívio SP,1982. Reprinted 1994. Out of print.

A Utopia Brasileira (The Brazilian Utopia) Ed. Itatiaia, Belo Horizonte, 1988 - Instituto Joaquim Nabuco of Recife Prize 1989.

O Dinossauro. Uma pesquisa sobre o Estado, o Patrimonialismo Selvagem e a Nova Classe de Intelectuais e Burocratas (The Dinosaur. An Inquiry concerning the State, Savage Patrimonialism and the New Class of  Intellectuals and Bureaucrats). T.A. Queiroz Edit. SP, 1988.

Opção Preferencial Pela Riqueza (Preferential Option for Wealth). Instituto Liberal, Rio 1991.

Decência Já (Decency Right Now). Edit. Nórdica, IL Rio 1992.

O Espírito das Revoluções (The Spirit of Revolution)- Edit. Faculdade da Cidade - Rio 1997.

Em Berço Esplêndido (On a Splendid Cradle). New edition, revised and enlarged, Editora Topbooks, Rio, 1999