The Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs will co-sponsor a public talk by Francisco Duarte Lopes, Ambassador of Portugal to the United States. 

Francisco Duarte Lopes has been serving as Portugal’s Ambassador to the U.S. since 2022. A career foreign service officer, he served as the Permanent Representative of Portugal to the UN, at Portugal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Lisbon, as Director-General for Foreign Policy, European Affairs, and the Portuguese Representative to the EU. Ambassador Duarte Lopes holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law of Lisbon. He began his professional service as an attaché in the Foreign Ministry’s Consular Section in 1989, before being posted to Pakistan from 1993 to 1995.

This event is co-sponsored by the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, the Yale Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the European Studies Council.