[b] Meira holds a BA and a PhD in Linguistics Theory and Analysis from Rice University.
Sérgio Meira is a member of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA).
[4] In addition to his native Portuguese, Sérgio Meira is proficient in English,[c] French,[d] and Spanish,[e] is moderately fluent in Esperanto,[f] Italian, German, Dutch, Volapük,[g] Romanian, and has a good command of Catalan, Russian, Latin, and other languages.
[3] His work helped in the development of the South American Phonological Inventory Database (SAPhon),[8] the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS),[1] and Glottolog.
He was appointed in 2007 by Brian Reynold Bishop, the seventh cifal and the academy's president at that time.