"I don’t plan to stand for any more elected positions but I will continue to be politically active," Rousseff told The Financial Times.
According to the newspaper, Rousseff plans to participate in various meetings and conferences to inform other countries on the situation in Brazil.
"In any case, I will leave as a legacy to women my trajectory. I say that we [women] are not people who give up, who bend under adversity," she said.
At present, Rousseff is a member of the Fundacao Perseu Abramo council, a think-tank linked to the Worker’s Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores).
In May, the upper house of the Brazilian parliament voted 55-22 to start impeachment proceedings against Rousseff after she was accused of concealing the country’s budget deficit ahead of the 2014 election.
On August 31, Brazil's Federal Senate voted to permanently remove Rousseff from the presidential office. The same day, then Brazilian Vice President Temer was sworn as the country's new head of state and will remain in this post until early 2019, when fresh elections are held.
In early November, members of the Brazilian left parties accused Temer of corruption and called for an investigation.
