Ana Paula Zacarias

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Ana Paula Zacarias
Herman van Rompuy
PrecedingJoão Pacheco
Succeeded byJoão Gomes Cravinho
Deputy at the Permanent Representation of Portugal in the EU
In office
January 2009 – March 2011
Succeeded byPedro Costa Pereira
Personal details
Born5 January 1959
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
ProfessionAmbassador


Ana Paula Zacarias (born 5 January 1959 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese diplomat and the Secretary of State for European Affairs of the XXII Constitutional Government of Portugal. She was Head of the European Union's delegation to Brazil from 2011 to 2015.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Ana Paula completed her degree in

New University of Lisbon (NOVA). From 1984 to 2011, she held various positions with the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During this time, she worked as Vice President of the Camões Institute in Lisbon (2000), Deputy Permanent Representative of Portugal to UNESCO in Paris (2005), and Ambassador of Portugal to Estonia in Tallinn (2008) before becoming Deputy Permanent Representative of Portugal to the European Union in Brussels
until 2011.

On 8 March 2011, she was appointed as the

In July 2017, she was appointed Secretary of State for European Affairs in the XXI Constitutional Government of Portugal.

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