Maria Natália Guterres Viegas Carrascalão da Conceição Antunes (born ) is a former Portuguese politician, and is currently an

East Timor Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and ...

ese diplomat. In 2020, she has been the East Timorese Ambassador to Singapore, a post held since 2024 by Alex Tilman. Earlier, from 1999 to 2009, she was a

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(PSD) member of the Assembly of the Republic, the

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of Portugal. Between 2009 and 2014, she was the East Timorese Ambassador to Portugal, and was also accredited to

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and

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. From 2016 until 2020, she was East Timorese Ambassador to Laos. Carrascalão is one of the 14 children born to Portuguese exile

Manuel Viegas Carrascalão Manuel Viegas Carrascalão (24 October 1901 – 24 October 1977) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese journalist and trade union leader. Biography Manuel Viegas Carrascalão was born on 24 October 1901 to Manuel Viegas Carrascalão and Maria Faus ...

and his Timorese wife Marcelina Guterres; several of the Carrascalão children, and their father, have played important political roles in East Timor since their father arrived there as a political prisoner in 1927.

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