João Vale de Almeida is a senior European Union Ambassador who recently retired from active duty after a 40-year international career.
He was last posted in London, until November 2022, as the first EU Ambassador to the United Kingdom, after Brexit. Previously he was Ambassador to the United Nations and Ambassador to the United States.
Ambassador Vale de Almeida has practiced diplomacy at the highest level over the last two decades combining political, security, environmental and economic aspects. He has a vast experience in European and International affairs, including as EU’s “Sherpa” for G8 and G20 Summits and Chief of Staff of the President of the European Commission. He was also Director-General of DG RELEX in the European Commission.
Upon retirement, in 2023 and 2024, he was anAdjunct Professor and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Columbia, in New York, United States, and at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.
João Vale de Almeida is a keen promoter of public diplomacy and civil society engagement and has been an active public speaker in business and academic circles in Europe and in the United States. He is regularly interviewed by television, radio, and print media .
His first book, “The Divorce of Nations - a diplomat’s inside view as the global order collapses””, has just been published in the United Kingdom