List of Portuguese ambassadors in Bangladesh

Location of Portugal (orange) and Bangladesh (green)

The list of Portuguese ambassadors in Bangladesh lists the ambassadors of the Republic of Portugal in Bangladesh . The two states have had diplomatic relations since 1974, which go back to the arrival of the first Portuguese explorers and their first settlements in what is now Bangladesh in 1516.

Portugal has not yet set up its own embassy in Bangladesh, the country belongs to the administrative district of the Portuguese ambassador to India , who is secondarily accredited in Bangladesh .

A Portuguese honorary consulate has been set up in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka .

Heads of mission

Portuguese Ambassador to Bangladesh

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
Bangladesh
Luis Gaspar da Silva		from 1978	Ambassador based in New Delhi , accredited in Dhaka on May 3, 1978
João Eduardo Monteverde Pereira Bastos		from 1980	Ambassador based in New Delhi, accredited in Dhaka on August 12, 1980
António Manuel da Veiga and Meneses Cordeiro		from 1982	Ambassador based in New Delhi, accredited in Dhaka in 1982
António Telo Moreira de Almeida de Magalhães Colaço		from 1985	Ambassador based in New Delhi, accredited to Dhaka on March 5, 1985
Álvaro Manuel Soares Guerra		from 1989	Ambassador based in New Delhi, accredited in Dhaka on March 29, 1989
Marcello de Zaffiri Duarte de Mathias		from 1993	Ambassador based in New Delhi, accredited in Dhaka on May 20, 1994
Manuel Marcelo Monteiro Curto		from 1997	Ambassador based in New Delhi, accredited in Dhaka on May 7, 1998
Francisco Manuel Guimarães Henriques da Silva		From 2001 onwards	Ambassador based in New Delhi
Joaquim José Lemos Ferreira Marques		from 2002	Ambassador based in New Delhi
Luís Filipe Carrilho de Castro Mendes		from 2007	Ambassador based in New Delhi
Jorge Ayres Rosa de Oliveira		from 2011	Ambassador based in New Delhi
João do Carmo Ataíde da Câmara		since May 2, 2016	Ambassador based in New Delhi

See also

• Bangladeshi-Portuguese relations
• Foreign policy of Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview of diplomatic relations with Bangladesh at the diplomatic institute in the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on November 22, 2019
2. ↑ List of the Portuguese ambassadors in Bangladesh , diplomatic institute in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on November 22, 2019
3. ↑ List of the Portuguese ambassadors in India , Diplomatic Institute in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on November 22, 2019