Join us for a public talk by Francisco Duarte Lopes, Ambassador of Portugal to the United States. Ambassador Duarte Lopes will focus on the NATO alliance, Portugal’s role as a founding member of NATO, and the US-European partnership. 

What are the common interests between Portugal and the United States? What are the shared challenges?

Francisco Duarte Lopes has been serving as Portugal’s Ambassador to the US 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 talk will be held in person. RSVP today!