Luís de Almeida Sampaio

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Caetano Luís Pequito de Almeida Sampaio (born December 16, 1957 in Porto ) is Portugal's ambassador to Germany .

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Luís de Almeida Sampaio studied history and law. In the diplomatic service since 1983, he was a member of the Portuguese delegation to NATO in Brussels from August 1987 . From 1990 to 1993 he was Associate Director of the Office of the Secretary General of NATO, Manfred Wörner , and from 1995 to 1997 Diplomatic Advisor to the Portuguese European Commissioner João de Deus Pinheiro . Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Luís de Almeida Sampaio worked as political advisor to SFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina until 1999 and then in the Portuguese embassy in Luanda , Angola , until 2002. From 2003 to 2004 he was President of the Portuguese Institute for Development Cooperation and from September 2004 active as ambassador in Algiers , Algeria . For the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union he was MEPP Coordinator ( Peace Process in the Middle East ) in 2007 and then Ambassador to Belgrade from 2008.

Luís de Almeida Sampaio became Portugal's ambassador to Germany in spring 2012. On April 13, 2012, he presented Federal President Joachim Gauck with his letter of accreditation , the prerequisite for working as an ambassador for his home country in Germany, replacing his predecessor José Caetano Da Costa Pereira.

In September 2015 he left the embassy in Berlin and has since been Portugal's representative on the North Atlantic Council , NATO's most important decision-making body .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae of Luís de Almeida Sampaio (PDF file; 14 kB), accessed on June 7, 2012
  2. ^ Ambassador of Portugal in Germany , accessed on June 7, 2012
  3. ↑ Biography Sampaio on the NATO website, accessed on March 3, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Sampaio, Luís de Almeida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sampaio, Caetano Luís Pequito de Almeida (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH postage