Nuno Filipe Alves Salvador e Brito
Ambassador of Portugal to the United States
Nuno Filipe Alves Salvador e Brito became Ambassador of Portugal to the United States February
23, 2011.
From 2005 until his appointment, his posts included Director General for European Affairs at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Co-Chair of the Luso-Spanish Commission for Trans-border
Cooperation, Counselor of the Portuguese Economic and Social Council, Political Director at
Portugal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Co-Chair of the U.S.-Portuguese Standing Bilateral
Commission.
Past experience also includes service in the cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993), Chief
of the Cabinet of the Secretary of Defense (1995), Deputy Permanent Representative of Portugal at
the United Nations (1999), and Principal Diplomatic Advisor to the Prime Minister (2005).
Brito joined Portugal's Diplomatic Service in March 1984. He previously served at the Portuguese
Embassy in Washington, DC in 1987.
He obtained a Law Degree from the University of Lisbon.
Brito was born in Angola on August 5, 1959, is married and has two children.
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