Carlos Fernando Leckie Lobo

Carlos Fernando Leckie Lobo was born in New York in 1921 and studied public and international affairs at Princeton. He began ministry service in the 1940s and completed training in diplomatic history and professional practice. His early embassy assignments included the Vatican and London before Washington, where he served as first secretary from 1959 and briefly headed the mission as chargé d’affaires in September–October 1961. ^{2, 1}

Lobo also worked extensively in protocol. He became chief of presidential ceremonial in 1963 and helped organize major official visits, including those of Charles de Gaulle and the shah of Iran, as well as the inauguration of the Brazil–Paraguay Friendship Bridge. After serving as minister-counselor and temporary chargé in Vienna, he was nominated in 1970 to head Brazil’s mission in Bulgaria. ¹