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About the speaker

Tony Kay OBE

Tony Kay is a career British diplomat who has served in Hong Kong, Eastern Europe, Canada and across Northern Africa and the Middle East. His previous role was Deputy Director for the Middle east in the FCDO, focussed on the Gulf Cooperation Council. His last overseas role was Deputy Ambassador to Israel. Tony started as Deputy Ambassador to Brazil in July 2024. He has extensive crisis response experience, most acutely as Consular Regional Director to the Middle East in 2009-2012, covering the Arab Spring.

Tony helped to coordinate evacuations from Yemen, Libya, Iran, Syria, Egypt and Bahrain, for which he received an OBE. Tony has just completed a Masters Degree at King’s College London on Global Strategy and Security, and is a visiting professor at Chichester University.

Tony is accompanied in Brazil by his partner Dehenna Davison, a former UK Member of Parliament and Minister, who is way cleverer than him, and in the school holidays by his fantastic kids Maia and Luca, who are also way smarter than him. Tony’s hobbies are cooking, eating, travelling, and enduring Manchester United matches. He also collects shoes.

About the chair

Dr Andreza Aruska Souza de Santos

Andreza completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, and holds a master’s degree in social sciences jointly awarded by the University of Freiburg, JNU in Delhi, and the University of KwaZulu Natal, in Durban. Andreza completed her bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Brasilia.

Having studied in Brazil, Germany, South Africa, India and the UK, Andreza writes about Brazilian politics and city governance comparatively. Before joining King's, she was a lecturer at the University of Oxford and at Oxford she directed the Brazilian Studies Programme (2018-2023). Before that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford’s School of Anthropology, where she worked at the Urban Transformations portfolio (ESRC).

She has previously worked at Brazil’s Ministry of Social Development, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Vienna), at the Indian Embassy in Brazil, and at the Brazilian Confederation of Municipalities.