After the aggression of the Russian Federation to Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the reconfiguration of the post-Soviet space proved to be an even more challenging object of study due to its evident regional implications and global impact. At the closing conference of the EURASIA course, Ambassador Mário Godinho de Matos will give an open class on this topic, also looking ahead to the NATO summit in Vilnius on 11 and 12 July.

Speaker:
Ambassador Mario Godinho de Matos

He holds a degree in Economics from ISEG (U. Lisboa) in 1974. In 1976 he joined the Diplomatic Career, having held functions, between 1980 and 2004, in the diplomatic representations of Portugal in Washington, Maputo, Beijing, Madrid and in the NATO Delegation in Brussels . From 1989 to 1991 he was a member of the Joint Luso-Chinese Liaison Group on the process of transitioning Macao to the sovereignty of the People's Republic of China. Between 1992 and 1995, he held management positions at the MNE, in Lisbon.
From 2004 to 2017 he was successively Ambassador of Portugal in Havana, Maputo and Moscow.
In 2017, he returns permanently to the MNE, in Lisbon, and chairs the International Commission on Luso-Spanish Watersheds and Limits until June 2020.
In the academic area, he taught, at ISEG, the subject of “Economic and Social History” for five academic years, in the intermittence of placements abroad that the Diplomatic Career requires.
After returning to Lisbon, he served as Guest Assistant Professor at the UC “Diplomatic Practice”, at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade NOVA, from 2018 to 2020.
As part of the collaboration between the U.NOVA and the Instituto Universitário Militar (IUM), he taught, in 2019 and 2020, the area of “Diplomacy” in the postgraduate program “Globalisation, Diplomacy and Security”.
He collaborates regularly with the IUM in the Promotion Courses to General Officer.
Awarded by President Jorge Sampaio with the degree of “Grand Cross” of the Order of Merit; “Officer” of the Order of Infante D. Henrique; “Number Commander” of the Order of Isabel the Catholic of Spain.