Nuno Brito
Nuno Filipe Alves Salvador e Brito (born 5 August 1959) is a Portuguese diplomat and the current Ambassador of Portugal to the United Kingdom. Brito was born in Portuguese Angola.
Biography
[edit]He graduated in Law (Legal Sciences) in 1984 from the University of Lisbon. Upon completing his degree, he joined the Portuguese diplomatic service, initially working in the American department. Three years later, he was posted to the Portuguese Embassy in Washington, D.C., as Embassy Secretary, where he remained until 1993.[1]
On returning to the Ministry, he was appointed to the office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, where he served until 1995. In the same year, he became Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State for Defence, António Vitorino.[1]
In 1997, Ambassador Nuno Brito was posted to the Portuguese mission to the United Nations, where he served as Alternate Representative on the Security Council, of which Portugal was a non-permanent member during the 1997–1998 term. He became Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 1999.[1]
After his tenure at the United Nations, he returned to Portugal in 2002 as an adviser to then Prime Minister Durão Barroso, a post he held until March 2005. He was subsequently appointed Co-Chair of the Luso-Spanish Commission for Cross-Border Cooperation and, from 29 September 2005, a member of the Economic and Social Council.[1] From 12 June 2007, he served as Director-General for European Affairs.[2] From 23 February 2011 to October 2015, he was the Ambassador of Portugal to the United States.
He was Permanent Representative of Portugal to the European Union from October 2015 to March 2022.
Honours
[edit]- Grand Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross (Brazil), 16 September 2003
- Grand Silver Cross of the Order of Merit (Austria), 11 November 2004
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Chile), 31 August 2010
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (Portugal), 21 March 2011[3][4]
- Grand Cross of the Order of Rio Branco (Brazil), 25 November 2021[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Embassy of Portugal in the USA". Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
- ^ Diário da República, 2nd series — No. 125 — 1 July 2008
- ^ "Portuguese National Honourees". Presidency of the Portuguese Republic. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
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- ^ "Foreign Honourees". Presidency of the Portuguese Republic. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
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- ^ "Official Gazette of the Union – Section 1". Imprensa Nacional. 26 November 2021. p. 23. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
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