Donna Hrinak
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Donna Jean Hrinak is the current president of Boeing
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 Brazil, since September 2011. Prior to that, in 2008 she joined PepsiCo where she was vice president of global public policy and government affairs. Prior to that she worked for Kraft Foods, where she was corporate affairs director for Latin America and the European Union.

She served as United States
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 diplomat. She was the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil
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 (2002–2004), Venezuela
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 (2000–2002), Bolivia
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 (1997–2000), and the Dominican Republic
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 (1994–1997).

Hrinak was born in Pennsylvania
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. After graduating from Michigan State University
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, she attended George Washington University
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 and the Notre Dame Law School
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. In addition to English
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, she speaks Spanish
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, Portuguese
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, and Polish
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