The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal is in charge of conducting the foreign policy established by the Portuguese government, representing the country in many international meetings. The current minister is João Gomes Cravinho. The following is a list of office holders since 1936:

Ministers of Foreign Affairs

* 1936–1947:

António de Oliveira Salazar António de Oliveira Salazar (, , ; 28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese dictator who served as President of the Council of Ministers from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the ("National Dictatorship"), he reframed the r ...

* 1947–1950: José Caeiro da Mata * 1950–1956: Paulo Cunha ''(1st time)'' * 1956–1957:

Marcelo Caetano Marcelo José das Neves Alves Caetano (; 17 August 1906 – 26 October 1980) was a Portuguese politician and scholar. He was the second and last leader of the Estado Novo after succeeding António Salazar. He served as prime minister from 196 ...

''(1st time)'' * 1957: Paulo Cunha ''(2nd time)'' * 1957:

''(2nd time)'' * 1957–1958: Paulo Cunha ''(3rd time)'' * 1958–1961: Marcello Mathias * 1961–1969: Alberto Franco Nogueira * 1969–1970:

''(3rd time)'' * 1970–1974: Rui Patrício * 1974–1975:

Mário Soares Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL (; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese politician, who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th pres ...

''(1st time), 1st after the Carnation Revolution'' * 1975:

Ernesto Melo Antunes Ernesto Augusto de Melo Antunes junior, GCL (Lisbon, 2 October 1933 – 10 August 1999) was a Portuguese military officer who had a major role in the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974. Background Melo Autunes was the son of Ernesto Augusto ...

''(1st time)'' * 1975:

Mário Ruivo Mário João de Oliveira Ruivo GOSE • GOIH • GCM ( Campo Maior, 3 March 1927 – Lisbon, 25 January 2017), known as Mário Ruivo, was a Portuguese scientist and politician, a pioneer in the defense of the ocean and the environment in Portu ...

* 1975–1976:

''(2nd time)'' * 1976–1977: José Medeiros Ferreira ''(1st time)'' * 1977–1978:

''(2nd time)'' * 1978: Victor de Sá Machado * 1978: Carlos Correia Gago * 1978: José Medeiros Ferreira ''(2nd time)'' * 1978–1980: João Carlos Lopes Cardoso * 1980–1981:

Diogo Freitas do Amaral Diogo Pinto de Freitas do Amaral (; 21 July 1941 – 3 October 2019), known as Freitas do Amaral, was a Portuguese politician and law professor. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 10 January 1980 to 12 January 1981 and from 12 March 2005 t ...

''(1st time)'' * 1981–1982: André Gonçalves Pereira * 1982–1983: Vasco Futscher Pereira * 1983–1985:

Jaime Gama Jaime José de Matos da Gama, GCC, GCIH, GCL (born 8 June 1947) is a Portuguese former politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal from 1983 to 1985 and again from 1995 to 2002, and he was President of the Assembly of the R ...

''(1st time)'' * 1985–1987: Pedro Pires de Miranda * 1987–1992:

João de Deus Pinheiro João de Deus Rogado Salvador Pinheiro, GCC GCIH (born 11 July 1945), is a Portuguese politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party– People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–E ...

* 1992–1995:

José Manuel Durão Barroso José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

* 1995–2002:

''(2nd time)'' * 2002–2003: António Martins da Cruz * 2003–2004:

Teresa Patrício de Gouveia Maria Teresa Pinto Basto Patrício de Gouveia, GOIH GCIH GCC GCOH KMM (born on 18 July 1946), commonly known as Teresa Patrício de Gouveia, is a Portuguese cultural manager, public servant and retired politician. Background Gouveia is a da ...

* 2004–2005: António Monteiro * 2005–2006:

''(2nd time)'' * 2006–2011:

Luís Amado Luís Filipe Marques Amado, GCC (born 17 September 1953) is a portuguese politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2011 in Portugal's XIII Government led by the Socialist Party. Before replacing Diogo Freitas do Amaral ...

* 2011–2013:

Paulo Portas Paulo de Sacadura Cabral Portas (born 12 September 1962, ) is a Portuguese media and political figure, who has, since the 1990s, been one of Portugal's leading conservative politicians. He was the leader of one of Portugal's right-wing parties, t ...

* 2013–2015:

Rui Machete Rui Manuel Parente Chancerelle de Machete (born 7 April 1940) is a Portuguese politician. Machete served as Minister of Social Affairs from 1976 to 1979, Minister of Justice from 1983 to 1985, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defe ...

* 2015–2022:

Augusto Santos Silva Augusto Ernesto dos Santos Silva (born 20 August 1956) is a Portuguese sociologist, university professor, and politician who has been the President of the Assembly of the Republic since 2022, in the 15th Legislature. From November 2015 to Ma ...

* 2022: António Costa * 2022–present: João Gomes Cravinho

References

External links

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