José Serra
| José Serra | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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Assumed office 12 May 2016 |
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| President | Michel Temer |
| Preceded by | Mauro Vieira |
| Senator from São Paulo | |
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In office 1 February 2015 – 12 May 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Eduardo Suplicy |
| Succeeded by | José Aníbal |
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In office 1 November 2002 – 1 February 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Pedro Piva |
| Succeeded by | Aloízio Mercadante |
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In office 30 April 1996 – 31 March 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Pedro Piva |
| Succeeded by | Pedro Piva |
| 33rd Governor of São Paulo | |
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In office 1 January 2007 – 2 April 2010 |
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| Lieutenant | Alberto Goldman |
| Preceded by | Cláudio Lembo |
| Succeeded by | Alberto Goldman |
| 59th Mayor of São Paulo | |
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In office 1 January 2005 – 31 March 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Marta Suplicy |
| Succeeded by | Gilberto Kassab |
| Minister of Health | |
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In office 31 March 1998 – 20 February 2002 |
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| President | Fernando Henrique Cardoso |
| Preceded by | Carlos Albuquerque |
| Succeeded by | Barjas Negri |
| Minister of Planning and Budget | |
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In office 1 January 1995 – 30 April 1996 |
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| President | Fernando Henrique Cardoso |
| Preceded by | Beni Veras |
| Succeeded by | Antônio Kandir |
| Personal details | |
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19 March 1942 São Paulo, Brazil |
| Political party | Social Democracy Party |
| Spouse(s) | Monica Allende (1967–present) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
University of São Paulo University of Chile Cornell University |
| Signature |  |
| Website | Official website |
José Serra (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ ˈsɛʁɐ]; born March 19, 1942) is a Brazilian politician and Brazil's current Minister of Foreign Relations, having also served as a Congressman, Senator, Minister of Planning, Minister of Health, Mayor of São Paulo and Governor of São Paulo state .
José Serra was born in São Paulo's neighbourhood called Mooca to Francesco Serra, an Italian immigrant from Corigliano Calabro, Calabria, and Serafina Chirico, a Brazilian born to Italian parents. Serra comes from a lower middle class family. His father was semi-illiterate and worked as a fruit vendor in a market of São Paulo, but he was able to enrol his only child in college. He was also a prominent member of the socio-political movement Ação Popular which opposed the conservative political system which then existed.
Serra interrupted his studies in engineering at age 22 and left the country in 1964, after the coup that established the military government era in Brazil. Serra had come to the attention of the authorities having served as President of the União Nacional dos Estudantes (UNE), (National Student Union) which opposed the conservative regime existing while he was a 4th year engineering student at the Polytechnic School at the University of São Paulo.
José Serra was in exile from 1964 to 1978 in Bolivia, France, Chile, and the United States. In Chile, Jose Serra did his masters in Economics and taught Economics at the University of Chile (Universidad de Chile). There he also married Monica Allende (1967), then a top ballerina at the National Ballet of Chile. They had two children, Veronica (1969) and Luciano (1973). In the United States José Serra was awarded a Masters and Ph. D. in Economics at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) and later spent 2 years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.
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