Mr. Marcos Perestrello De Vasconcellos
President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Marcos Perestrello is a member of the Portuguese Parliament elected by the

Socialist Party (S&D - Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats). Mr. Perestrello is a Lawyer (1994, graduate of Lisbon University) and was elected member of the Portuguese Parliament for the first time in 2005. Since then, he has served several times as an MP. In 2007, he was elected and served as Deputy Mayor of Lisbon until 2009. Marcos Perestrello served twice in the

Government. First, from 2009 to 2011 as Secretary of State for National Defence and Maritime

Affairs and then, as Secretary of State for National Defence, between 2015 and 2018. Currently,

Marcos Perestrello is the Chair of the National Defence Committee of the Portuguese Parliament and

Deputy Chair of the Portuguese Atlantic Committee. He has also held the position of Chair of the

NATO PA Sub-Committee on NATO Partnerships (Political Committee) since the Annual Session in Lisbon in October 2021, and was appointed acting Vice-President of the NATO PA in September 2023. Marcos Perestrello was born in 1971, is married and has three children.