Background
Rocha-Paris, Joao was born in 1945.
Rocha-Paris, Joao was born in 1945.
Degree in Law, University Lisbon, Portugal.
With Portugal Foreign Service, since 1969, advisor to deputy minister and minister of foreign affairs. 2d secretary Embassy of Portugal, Madrid, 1972—1975. Counselor Permanent Mission of Portugal to Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, 1980—1985, Permanent Mission to North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Brussels, 1986.
Ambassador to Angola Portugal Foreign Service, 1991—1996, ambassador to Belgium, 1996—1999. Ambassador to the United States Government of Portugal, Washington, since 1999.
Married; 2 children.