Ambassador Maria Edileuza Fontenele Reis (born May 1, 1954 in Ceará, Brazil) is the Permanent Delegate of Brazil to UNESCO.Ambassador Maria Edileuza Fontenele Reis concluded her under-graduate studies in Social Communication in Brasília in 1975 and in French Culture and Civilization in Paris, in 1976.
Among her other academic titles, are the High Studies Course of the Brazilian Diplomatic Academy (PhD level thesis on Brazil-Japan relations, published in Portuguese, Japanese and English); Master's degree in International Relations at the Centro Studi Diplomatici e Strategici in Rome (Italy 2002); and PhD in International Relations and Diplomacy at the École des Hautes Études en Relations Internationales (Paris, 2016).
Ambassador Maria Edileuza Fontenele Reis is married to retired Ambassador and writer Fernando Guimarães Reis and has two children, Maria Lydia Fontenele Reis and Pedro Felipe Fontenele Reis.