Ambassador Leonardo Luis Gorgulho Nogueira Fernandes
Secretary of Brazilian Communities and Consular and Legal Affairs
Telephone(s) : +55 (61) 2030-8770
E-mail : secc@itamaraty.gov.br
Ambassador Leonardo Luís Gorgulho Nogueira Fernandes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1971. He holds a degree in Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and graduated from the Rio Branco Institute in 1994.
At the Foreign Ministry’s headquarters, he served as assistant and deputy head of the Division of Asia and Oceania I (1994-1997), assistant of the Division of Social Affairs (1997-1998), advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ Office ( 2007-2011).
His postings abroad include the Mission of Brazil to the UN (1998-2002 and 2011-2015) and the Embassies of Brazil in Tokyo 2002-2005), Quito (2005-2007), and The Hague (2015-2019, as Minister Counselor and Chargé d'affaires).
Upon returning to Brazil in 2019, he took office at the General Coordination for Inter-regional Mechanisms (2019-2020). After that, he was nominated Director of the Consular Department, a position he held from November 2020 to September 2021, when he was nominated Secretary for Communications and Culture.