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Maria Estela Kubitschek Lopes - 64 holds a degree in architecture and is an interior designer and entrepreneur. She is managing partner of DF Consultores Ltda. and Santa Júlia Importação Exportação e Participações. She also works as adviser to the chairman of the Foundation of the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theater the chairman of Friends of the State of Rio de Janeiro Ame-Rio and the chairman of the board of Casa Santa Ignez (a philanthropic organization that provides food and education to children and low-income families in the Rocinha district of Rio de Janeiro). She was one of the founders of Memorial JK an organization to preserve the memory of Brazil’s former president Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira serving as its vice-president from 1981 to 2000 and its executive chair since 2000. She has also been chair of the Cesgranrio Cultural Institute; vice-president of the Council of the Women's Bank; president of the Beneficent Institutions of the State of Rio de Janeiro; and a member of the council of the cultural institution Casa das Palmeiras. She has received several honors recognizing cultural and social merit. | 