Daniela Arruda Benjamin is a career diplomat for Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, serving as the Director of the Department of Regional Integration since May 2023.
Since joining the Foreign Service in 1996, she has specialised in negotiating and coordinating state positions in intergovernmental fora, steering high-level policy dialogues, and advancing Brazil's strategic objectives within regional and international organisations.
She served as Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Delegate to international economic organisations in Paris, and she is now Director of the Department of Regional Integration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty), where she leads interministerial efforts on integration and political coordination.
Ambassador Benjamin holds a Master's degree in Public International Law and a postgraduate diploma in European Community Law from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, a Diploma in Diplomacy from Instituto Rio Branco, and a Bachelor of Laws from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.