Natália Carrascalão Antunes

Natália Carrascalão Antunes (2020)

Maria Natália Guterres Viegas Carrascalão da Conceição Antunes (born December 24, 1952 on the Fazenda Algarve , Leotala , municipality Liquiçá , Portuguese Timor ) is a Portuguese politician and East Timorese diplomat.

Life

Carrascalão studied law at the Universidade Ásia Oriental in Macau , but did not graduate. She is currently continuing her studies at the Universidade Nasionál Timór Lorosa'e in Dili .

From 1971 to 1974 Carrascalão worked for the Statistical Office in Portuguese Timor. After the Carnation Revolution , the colony was prepared for independence, but in 1975 it was occupied by Indonesia . Carrascalão worked in the National Statistical Institute in Lisbon from 1975 to 1981 . In 1982/83 she taught at Wetheril College and Liverpool College of TAFE in Sydney, Australia . From 1983 to 1986 and from 1990 to 1998 Carrascalão worked in the Macau Public Service. In between, she worked in Darwin for the Australian immigration authorities and the Telephone Interpreter Service (TIS), among other things as a translator. From 1998 to 1999, Carrascalão worked as an advisor to the Board of Directors of Cintra .

From October 25, 1999 to October 14, 2009, Carrascalão was a member of the Portuguese Parliament for the Portuguese PSD . In the 8th legislative period (1999 to 2002) for Porto , in the IX. Legislative period (2002 to 2005) for Faro and in the 10th legislative period (2005 to 2009) for Santarém . She was also a city councilor in Sintra in 2002/03 .

In 2006, Carrascalão was Technical Advisor to the Union of Capitals of the Portuguese- Speaking Countries ( União das Cidades Capitais de Língua Portuguesa ) and worked as an entrepreneur from 2006 to 2007. From 2007 to 2009, Carrascalão was head of cabinet of the East Timorese President José Ramos-Horta .

From September 24, 2009 to December 31, 2013, Carrascalão was Ambassador for East Timor in Lisbon and responsible for Portugal, Spain and from November 18, 2009 for Cape Verde . From 2014 Carrascalão worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of East Timor as coordinator for the preparation of the summit of the heads of state of the CPLP . She later became president of the Unidade de Implementação Academia de Artes e Indústrias Criativas Culturais .

On December 15, 2016, Carrascalão was appointed East Timor's first ambassador to Laos . In 2020 she moved to Singapore as the new ambassador . On March 24th, Carrascalão presented her accreditation to Singapore's President Halimah Yacob .

Other offices and functions

• In the Parliament of Portugal
  • Member of the Commission for European and Foreign Affairs
  • Member of the National Defense Commission
  • Member of the Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination (CICDR)
  • Member of the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the tragedy of Camarate in the VIII. And IX. Legislative periods
  • Member of the Commission for Gender Equality, Equality and Families
  • Member of the Provisional Committee to monitor the situation in East Timor
  • High Commissioner for Integration and Ethnic Minorities (ACIME)
  • Chair of the Portugal-East Timor Parliamentary Group
• In the PSD
  • Secretary and Vice-President of the PSD Section in Macau
  • Member of the National Council and the National Political Commission of the PSD
  • Presidium Secretary of the PSD
• Representative of the East Timor national basketball team

Private

Natália Carrascalão Antunes is married and of Roman Catholic faith. She speaks Portuguese , Tetum , English, Spanish and French . After her engagement in Portugal, she now lives again in East Timor's capital Dili.

She is one of 14 children of the Portuguese exile Manuel Viegas Carrascalão and his Timorese wife Marcelina Guterres . Several important East Timorese politicians came from the Carrascalão family .

Publications

• Vamos Jantar a Timor , 1998, Macau.
• Various articles in the Revista da Presidência da República de Timor-Leste

Awards

• 2012: Insígnia des Ordem de Timor-Leste
• 2013: Order of Merit of the Republic of Portugal (Grand Officer)
• 2013: Professional of the year at the Rotary Club of Belém

Web links

Commons : Natália Carrascalão Antunes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Biography on page of Parliament of Portugal (Portuguese), accessed on May 30, 2014.
2. ↑ Público: Foi fundador da UDT João Carrascalão morreu em Díli , February 17, 2012 ( Memento of the original of April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Pambuzka News: Cabo Verde: Dili abre embaixada em Cabo Verde , November 19, 2009 , accessed on January 14, 2018.
4. ↑ The President's Facebook page: Prezidente Taur Matan Ruak fó Tomada pose ba Embaixadores RDTL , December 15, 2016 , accessed on December 15, 2016.
5. ↑ SAPO: Oito novos embaixadores timorenses, incluindo em Lisboa, tomam posse este mês , January 17, 2020 , accessed on January 18, 2020.
6. ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of East Timor: SE Embaixadora Maria Natália Guterres Viegas Carrascalão aprezenta Karta Kredensiál ba SE Sra. Halimah Yacob, Prezidente Repúblika Singapura nu'udar Embaixadora Estraodinária e Plenipotensiáriu Repúblika Demokrátika Timor-Leste ba Repúblika Singapura. March 25, 2020 , accessed March 25, 2020.
7. ↑ José Ramos-Horta: Funu. East Timor's struggle for freedom is not over! Ahriman-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-89484-556-2 .
8. ↑ Jornal da República: Decreto do Presidente da República nº 48/2012 de 19 de Maio , accessed on April 29, 2020.