The Embassy

• Mission
• Senior staff
• The Ambassador
• Former Ambassadors
• History

Mission

The mission of the Embassy of Brazil in Kuwait is to represent the Brazilian government before the Kuwaiti authorities and society, to foster commercial, economic, cultural and cooperation ties between both nations and to provide consular services to the Brazilian community and to non-Brazilians in Kuwait.

Senior Staff

The Ambassador

Rodrigo Gabsch is the Ambassador of Brazil in Kuwait. He assumed his duties in January 2024 and presented credentials to His Highness the emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on 7 October 2024.

A career diplomat since 1993, Ambassador Gabsch has had assignments both in Brasília and abroad. More recently, he was the Foreign Ministry’s director of the North America (2023) and the Africa (2018-2022) Departments, as well as the head of the Press Office (2022-2023). Over the course of his career, he has served in New York, Budapest and Asunción. From 2005 to 2009, he was seconded to the President’s office and worked in the Senate President’s office. Between 1994 and 1998, he worked with international trade in services and with international transportation and telecommunications negotiations.

Ambassador Gabsch holds a degree magna cum laude in law and social sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and graduated from the Rio Branco Institute in Brasilia, Brazil’s diplomatic academy. His dissertation for the Foreign Ministry’s course of advanced studies was published in 2010 as Aprovação interna de tratados pelo Brasil [internal approval of treaties in Brazil].

Ambassador Gabsch is fluent in English, French and Spanish, as well as his native Portuguese. He was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1969. He is married to Mrs. Caroline Gabsch and they have one daughter.

Former Ambassadors

The following is a list of Brazilian Ambassadors accredited to Kuwait. It does not include chargés d'affaires ad interim.

History

updated Feb 2026 

Brazil and Kuwait established diplomatic relations on 20 January 1968, when a joint communiqué was released stating that the Governments of Brazil and Kuwait, desiring to strengthen the bonds of friendship between the two countries, had agreed to exchange diplomatic missions at Embassy level. The Embassy of Brazil in Kuwait was initially created as a non-resident diplomatic mission on 8 February 1968, concurrent with the Embassy in Cairo. The concurrent accreditation was later changed, on 3 December 1973, to the Embassy of Brazil in Jeddah.

In February 1974, Brazil opened a diplomatic chancery in Kuwait City, with First Secretary Maurício Carneiro Magnavita as resident Chargé d'Affaires a.i., reporting to the Ambassador of Brazil in Jeddah. 

Meeting in Brasília on 25 March 1975, the Foreign Ministers of Brazil and Kuwait, Antonio Azeredo da Silveira and Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, agreed to open resident Embassies in Kuwait City and Brasília, as reflected in the Joint Declaration issued during the visit:

[The] Ministers (…), aware of the importance attached to the rapid growth of the relations between Brazil and Kuwait, as a result of the friendship and the spirit of cooperation which bind the two countries, express the intention of appointing in the near future resident Ambassadors to each of their countries.

A presidential decree of 1 April 1975 established the Embassy of Brazil in Kuwait as a resident mission in Kuwait City. On 9 November at 9h30 a.m., at Seif Palace, Paulo Henrique de Paranaguá presented his credentials to the Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah as the first Ambassador of Brazil with residence in Kuwait.

The Brazilian Embassy in Kuwait was also accredited to the Government of Bahrein (1983-2021) and to the Government of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1984-1990). In October 2021, a resident Embassy was created in Manama.

Premises

Upon arrival in Kuwait City in 1974, Magnavita temporarily installed the Brazilian diplomatic chancery at the Hilton Hotel, then located in Bneid Al-Gar.

With the arrival of the first resident Ambassador in 1975, the Embassy of Brazil was situated in Dasma, at Istiqlal Street 2/1 (currently Route 30), corner of Dasma Street (now Ahmad Yaqob Al-Mehameed St.).

In the 1990s, the Embassy moved to Damascus Street block 2, in Nuzha. In 2000 the Embassy was again relocated to new premises in Yarmouk, block 2. It moved to its current building in West Mishref in 2010.