The Embassy
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
| Rodrigo Gabsch | Ambassador | |
| Felix Faria | Minister Counselor | |
| Flávio Dontal | Counselor | |
| Raquel Cruz | Attachée | |
| Manoel Pinto | Attaché |
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.
| Non-resident Ambassadors | City | Appointed |
| Arnaldo Vasconcelos | Cairo | 1969 |
| Murillo Gurgel Valente | Jeddah | 1973 |
| Resident Ambassadors | Appointed |
| Paulo Henrique de Paranaguá | 1975 |
| Raimundo Nonato Loiola de Castro | 1983 |
| Sérgio Seabra de Noronha | 1988 |
| Aderbal Costa | 1991 |
| Antônio Carlos Coelho da Rocha | 1996 |
| Mário da Graça Roiter | 2002 |
| Roberto Abdalla | 2010 |
| Antônio Carlos do Nascimento Pedro | 2014 |
| Norton de Andrade Mello Rapesta | 2016 |
| Francisco Mauro Brasil de Holanda | 2021 |
| Rodrigo d'Araujo Gabsch | 2024 |
History
- Amb. Paulo H. Paranaguá presents credentials to the Emir of Kuwait, 1975.
In early 1974, Brazil sent Maurício Carneiro Magnavita to Kuwait as resident Chargé d'Affaires a.i., reporting to the Ambassador in Jeddah. Upon arrival, he installed his temporary office at the Hilton Hotel.
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.
- Amb. Paranaguá presents credentials. 1975.
Between 1983 and 2021, the Brazilian Embassy in Kuwait was also accredited to the government of Bahrein. In October 2021, a resident Embassy was created in Manama.
From its opening in Kuwait City in 1974 until 2000, the Embassy was located in the neighborhood of Nuzha, in the Capital Governorate. In 2000 the Embassy was moved to new premises in Yarmouk, in the same governorate. It moved to its current building in West Mishref, Hawalli Governorate, in 2010.