Tereza Cristina Corrêa da Costa Dias is the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil since January 2019. Tereza Cristina received one of the greatest acknowledgements of her work as a legislator in 2018, when she won in the category "Best Congressperson" during the 11th Edition of the Congress in Focus Award, an accolade bestowed by a media agency dedicated to covering the National Congress. She was among the top-10 rated members of the House and praised as the lead defender of Brazilian agribusiness, also winning in the category "Animal and Plant Health" that same year. She secured a second 4-year term in the Brazilian House of Representatives during the 2018 general election. As a lawmaker, she was President of the “Frente Parlamentar da Agricultura” (Agriculture Caucus), the largest cross-party group in defense of the Brazilian agribusiness. Minister Corrêa da Costa Dias served as a member of important committees at the House of Representatives, covering topics such as finance, taxation, agriculture, livestock, food supply and rural development. In 2014, Tereza Cristina left her statewide office to run for National Congress. She was elected with a strong support from the agricultural sector. Returning to her home state in the late 1990s, Minister Corrêa da Costa Dias took office as Second Secretary of the Agriculture and Livestock State Federation of Mato Grosso do Sul (Famasul). In 2006, she was appointed as Superintendent of the National Service for Rural Learning (Senar) and, at the end of that same year, sworn in as Secretary of Agrarian Development, Production, Industry, Trade and Tourism of Mato Grosso do Sul, a position she held for seven years. Minister Corrêa da Costa Dias is an agricultural engineer, with a degree from the Federal University of Viçosa. After working in her family farming operation, she was invited to take management positions in multinational companies headquartered in São Paulo. In this capacity, she learned extensively about the Brangus cattle breed, which she eventually introduced in the Central-West Region of Brazil.