Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital

Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital, GOC, GCIH, ComIH is a Portuguese diplomat born in 27 September 1958, São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda. He currently serves as Portuguese Ambassador to the United States and to The Bahamas.[1]

His Excellency

Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital

Portuguese Ambassador to the United States
Assumed office
10 September 2015
PresidentAníbal Cavaco Silva

(10 September 2015 – 9 March 2016)
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa

(9 March 2016 – Present)
Prime MinisterPedro Passos Coelho
(10 September 2015 – 26 November 2015)
António Costa
(26 November 2015 – Present)
Preceded byNuno Brito
Portuguese Ambassador to The Bahamas
Assumed office
13 March 2017
PresidentMarcelo Rebelo de Sousa
(13 March 2017 – Present)
Prime MinisterAntónio Costa
(13 March 2017 – Present)
Permanent Representative of Portugal to the European Union
In office
19 March 2012  10 September 2015
PresidentAníbal Cavaco Silva

(19 March 2012 – 9 March 2016)
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa

(9 March 2016 – Present)
Prime MinisterPedro Passos Coelho

(19 March 2012 – 10 September 2015)
António Costa

(26 November 2015 – Present)
Personal details
Spouse(s)Isabel Maria Rito de Oliveira Afonso de Fezas Vital
Children2

Career

Ambassador Fezas Vital graduated from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a bachelors in Social and Judicial Sciences. He then studied International Trade at the Free University of Brussels. Shortly after, in 1983, he joined the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he started his diplomatic career as an attaché.[2]

Throughout his diplomatic career Fezas Vital he held posts not only in embassies but also in international organisations to which Portugal is a member, namely the Portuguese Representation for NATO and the Western European Union.

In 1996, three years before transfer of sovereignty over Macau, he was appointed diplomatic adviser to Governor Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira.

After his posting in Macau, Ambassador Fezas Vital returned to Portugal to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until he was appointed Consul General of Portugal in São Paulo in 2000.

In 2010 he was appointed Ambassador and in March 2012 he became the Representative of Portugal to the European Union, a post he held until being posted to the US as Ambassador of Portugal.

Honours

National honours

Foreign honours

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References

  1. Diário da República
  2. "Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital" (PDF). Assembleia da República. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  3. "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Nacionais". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  4. "Cidadãos Nacionais Agraciados com Ordens Estrangeiras". Página Oficial das Ordens Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
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