
Member of the Board of Directors
Manuel Caldeirinha
Graduated in Law, from the University of Coimbra, in 1983. Appointed senior technician at the Ministry of Agriculture, in 1985. Entered the diplomatic career in June 1987, as an embassy attaché, having taken up duties at the Portuguese Embassy in Brussels, in June 1991, at the Portuguese Embassy in Athens, in January 1994, and at the Portuguese Embassy in Bonn, in August 1994. Appointed head of division in the Directorate of Security and Disarmament Services, in 1998. Appointed head of division and, subsequently, director of services at the Economic Affairs Office, in 1999. Assigned to the Permanent Mission of Portugal to NATO, in Brussels, in February 2002, and, in February 2007, to the Delegation of Portugal to the OECD, first as deputy permanent representative, and then, in May 2011, as chargé d'affaires a.i. Returned to the Central Services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in August 2012, having been an auditor of the National Defense Course in the 2013-2014 biennium. Took up duties at the Portuguese Embassy in Riga, as chargé d'affaires a.i., in January 2015, and as diplomatic advisor to the President of the Assembly of the Republic from February 2017 to March 2022. Member of the Board of Directors of Camões, I.P. since March 2022.