Natália Carrascalão

Maria Natália Guterres Viegas Carrascalão da Conceição Antunes (born 24 December 1952) is a former Portuguese politician, and is currently an East Timorese diplomat. In 2020, she has been the East Timorese Ambassador to Singapore, a post held since 2024 by Alex Tilman.^[1]

Natália Carrascalão
Carrascalão in 2020
East Timorese Ambassador to Singapore
Incumbent
Assumed office 2020
East Timorese Ambassador to Laos
In office 2016–2020
East Timorese Ambassador to Portugal
In office 2009–2014
Member of the Assembly of the Republic (Portugal)
In office 1999–2009
Personal details
Born	(1952-12-24) 24 December 1952 (age 72)
Political party	Social Democratic Party (Portugal) (PSD)
Parent	Manuel Viegas Carrascalão (father)

Earlier, from 1999 to 2009, she was a Social Democratic Party (PSD) member of the Assembly of the Republic, the unicameral parliament of Portugal.^[2] Between 2009 and 2014, she was the East Timorese Ambassador to Portugal, and was also accredited to Spain and Cape Verde. From 2016 until 2020, she was East Timorese Ambassador to Laos.^[1]

Carrascalão is one of the 14 children born to Portuguese exile Manuel Viegas Carrascalão 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.^[3]