Married to Maria Cristiane Yazbek and with two daughters, Laila and Cecilia (from the first marriage with Moira Pinto Coelho), Pedro Motta Pinto Coelho attended both the Military and Naval colleges. He studied at the Naval School (1965-66), at the Instituto Rio Branco-IRBr (1971-72) and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Law Studies at UFMG and CEUB in 1975. He also obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Applied Music at George Washington University in 1978, followed by a Master of Arts (MA) in Political Theory and Methodology at the Government’s Department in Georgetown University in 1982.
Pedro was a career diplomat, having served in several posts abroad, such as the embassies in Washington, Asunción and Buenos Aires, as well as the delegation in Geneva (GATT / WTO) and the UN /environment.
He was the Brazilian Consul General in Lisbon, Brazil’s ambassador to Israel, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) in Lisbon and to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.
He participated, as both a Brazilian delegate or the head of the Brazilian delegation, in numerous international and regional meetings in trade policy, where he was responsible for leading the Brazilian delegations to the negotiating groups on intellectual property, services and investments in the GATT Uruguay round. Pedro was also one of the main negotiators for Brazil in the preparation and conclusion of the UN Conventions on Climate Change, Biological Diversity, Desertification and Protection of the Ozone Layer, as well as at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and in its preparatory process in New York.
Member of the “Trio Inconfidência” (flute), with Conceição Cipolatti (piano) and Pedro Bielchowisly (cello).
Among other academic activities, he was a member of the IRBr Examining Board of Higher Studies Course, 2005-2011.
Amongst Pedro’s published works:
“The Multilateral Treatment of the Environment“, IPRI notebooks and in Foreign Policy Issues, 2 vol, FUNAG, 199.
“Frontiers in the Amazon: an Integrated Space“, thesis of the Course of High Studies, FUNAG, 1992, p.192.
«Brazil-Argentina Relations in MERCOSUR», Org Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães, FUNAG, 1999.
“Brazil-Africa Relations-A Colloquium“, Itamaraty, FUNAG, 2002.
Retired, he now lives in Portugal (Vila de Parede, Cascais).