List of Portuguese ambassadors in Gambia

The list of Portuguese ambassadors in Gambia lists the ambassadors of the Republic of Portugal in Gambia . The countries have had direct diplomatic relations since 1976, which go back to the arrival of the Portuguese explorers in what is now the Gambia in 1446.

A Portuguese ambassador was first accredited in 1979 in the Gambian capital Banjul . Portugal did not open its own embassy there; since the beginning of relations, the country has belonged to the administrative district of the Portuguese ambassador in Senegal , who is receiving second accreditation in Gambia (as of 2019).

There is a Portuguese honorary consulate in Serekunda near the capital Banjul .

Heads of mission

Portuguese Ambassador to Gambia

Surname	image	Term of office	Remarks
Gambia
Jorge Syder Santiago		from 1979	Ambassador based in Dakar, accredited in Banjul on August 29, 1979
Carlos Maria Moniz Tavares de Matos Taquenho		from 1982	Ambassador with official seat in Dakar
Fernando Pinto dos Santos		from 1989	Ambassador with official seat in Dakar
Jorge Raúl da Silva Preto		from 1994	Ambassador with official seat in Dakar
João Luís Niza Pinheiro		from 1999	Ambassador with official seat in Dakar
António Augusto Montenegro Vieira Cardoso		from 2005	Ambassador with official seat in Dakar
Carolina Cordeiro Cabral		2009	Transitional Chargé d'affaires at the Dakar headquarters
Rui Alberto Manupella Tereno		from 2009 on	Ambassador with official seat in Dakar
Paulo Jorge Pedreira do Nascimento		since 2014	Ambassador with official seat in Dakar
Vítor Paulo da Costa Sereno		since 2018	Ambassador with official seat in Dakar

See also

• Gambian-Portuguese relations
• Foreign policy of Portugal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Overview of diplomatic relations with Gambia , website of the Diplomatic Institute of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry , accessed on November 21, 2019
2. ↑ List of the Portuguese ambassadors in Senegal , diplomatic institute in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on November 21, 2019