Manuel Corte-Real

Manuel Henrique de Melo e Castro de Mendonça Corte-Real GCC OIH GCM (born 29 October 1940) is a Portuguese diplomat and historian.

His Excellency

Manuel Corte-Real

GCC OIH GCM
Chief of Protocol of Portugal
In office
20 November 2005 – 26 October 2008
Preceded byEurico Paes
Succeeded byJosé Bouza Serrano
In office
27 October 2000 – September 2002
Preceded byRui Goulart de Ávila
Succeeded byEurico Paes
Portuguese Ambassador to Switzerland
In office
20 November 2002 – 28 October 2005
PresidentJorge Sampaio
Preceded byRui Goulart de Ávila
Succeeded byEurico Paes
Portuguese Ambassador to Ukraine
In office
2 December 1993 – 16 November 1998
PresidentMário Soares
Jorge Sampaio
Preceded byDiplomatic relations established
Succeeded byAntónio Faria e Maya
Personal details
Born
Manuel Henrique de Melo e Castro de Mendonça Corte-Real

(1940-10-29) 29 October 1940
Lapa, Lisbon, Portugal
Spouse(s)Maria da Conceição Corte-Real
Alma materUniversity of Lisbon

Biography

Manuel Corte-Real was born on 29 October 1940, in Lapa, Lisbon. He earned a licentiate degree in History from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon,[1] where he taught as a lecturer (assistente) from 1966 to 1970.[2]

He began his diplomatic career in September 1969, when he became an attaché; he became a Third Secretary in 1972 and was posted to the Portuguese embassy in Bonn in October 1973. He was promoted to Second Secretary in 1974 and to First Secretary in 1976; in February 1977, he was posted to the Portuguese embassy in Brasília.[1]

In January 1980, he was appointed chief of staff to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Diogo Freitas do Amaral and, in February 1981, as head of the Office for International Political Organisms (Repartição dos Organismos Políticos Internacionais). In October 1982, he was promoted to the rank of Counsellor, and in 1984 was posted to the Portuguese embassy in London;[1] between January and June 1989, he acted as interim head of mission in London as chargé d'affaires.[3] In 1990, he was appointed Consul-General in Seville.[1]

In April 1993, he was promoted to the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary, and in December of that year, Corte-Real became the first Portuguese Ambassador in Kyiv, after Portugal had recognised the independence of Ukraine in 1992.[4] When Diogo Freitas do Amaral was President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1995–1996, Corte-Real joined him, on secondment, again as his chief of staff.[1]

In 1998, after being promoted to the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary, First Class, in March, he served as Chief of Protocol of the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition.[1]

In November 1998, he was appointed President of the Portuguese Diplomatic Institute (Instituto Diplomático). He served as the country's Chief of Protocol from October 2000 to September 2002, during which tenure he was promoted to the diplomatic rank of Ambassador. On November 2002, he presented his credentials as the Portuguese Ambassador to Switzerland;[5] he returned to Portugal in 2005 and once again served as Chief of Protocol, until 2008.[1] As Chief of Protocol, he was responsible for the important international meetings of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2007 as well as for the ceremonies of the Signing of the Treaty of Lisbon, the 20th EU-Russia Summit in Mafra, and the 2nd EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon.[6]

More recently, Corte-Real has led the "Missão para o Património" working group of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the goal of studying and publishing the cultural heritage of the Necessidades Palace.[2]

Published works
  • A feitoria Portuguesa na Andaluzia 1500–1532 (Instituto de Alta Cultura, Ed. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1967)
  • Feitores e escrivães da feitoria Portuguesa na Andaluzia ("Separata da Revista do Tempo e da História", III, Centro de Estudos Históricos da Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, 1968)
  • O Palácio das Necessidades (Ed. Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Lisbon, 1981) — recipient of the Júlio de Castilho Prize in 1983[2]
    • 2nd Edition, Ed. Chaves Ferreira S.A., 2001; 3rd Edition, By the Book, 2020
  • O Palácio de S. Clemente (Ed. Andrea Jakobsen Estúdio, Rio de Janeiro, 2005)
  • Embaixadas de Portugal (Ed. Polígono, Lda., 2006)

Distinctions

National orders

Foreign orders

References
  1. "Despacho Conjunto 47/2006, de 18 de Janeiro". Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros. Diário da República. 18 January 2006. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  2. Corte-Real, Manuel (2020). Palácio das Necessidades [Necessidades Palace] (in Portuguese and English). Lisbon: By the Book. ISBN 978-989-54823-2-0.
  3. "Portal Diplomático - Relações Bilaterais: Reino Unido". portaldiplomatico.mne.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  4. "Portal Diplomático - Relações Bilaterais: Ucrânia". portaldiplomatico.mne.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  5. "Portal Diplomático - Relações Bilaterais: Suíça". portaldiplomatico.mne.gov.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  6. Tavares, Isabel Nevoa. "Actividades 2017 - Embaixador Manuel Côrte-Real". APorEP -Associação Portuguesa de Estudos de Protocolo. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  7. "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Portuguesas". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
  8. "Entidades Nacionais Agraciadas com Ordens Estrangeiras". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
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