Maria Madalena L. Carvalho-Fischer and Matthias Fischer

Maria Madalena Carvalho Fischer studied Law at the Lisbon University and took a post-graduate degree in European Union and International Law at the University of Bonn. After teaching at the Lisbon University and the National School of Administration in Warsaw, she joined the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1994. In 1998, she worked as an exchange diplomat in the German Foreign Office and was assigned to the Portuguese Embassy in Berlin in 1999. In 2001, Madalena Fischer became Deputy Head of the Portuguese Embassy in Islamabad. She is currently Deputy European Correspondent in the Portuguese Foreign Office.

Matthias Fischer studied Law and Languages at the University of Bonn. After one year at the Bonn County and the LSE, he completed a post-graduate degree in International Relations at the Esculea Diplomatica in Madrid and joined the German Foreign Office in 1990. in 1991, he was assigned to the German Embassy in Warsaw as press attaché and, in 1994, to the Embassy in Lisbon as cultural attaché. In 1998, he was posted back to the German Foreign Office. In 2001, he became head of the Consular Department of the German Embassy in Islamabad. Matthias Fischer is now Counsellor at the German Embassy in Lisbon.