He has a PhD in Sociology from Nova University Lisbon, he is the author of «Anatomy of Portuguese Nepotism», which reproduces the first national PhD thesis on the subject. He has a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Coimbra. He is the only Portuguese to have performed leading roles in the two main international private law organisations (the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and the Hague Conference on Private International Law). He represented Portugal in the Council of Europe’s Group of States Against Corruption and the OECD Working Group on Corruption in International Trade Transactions. Since 2022, he was General Counsel and Director of Global Affairs in the international project «The Ocean Cleanup».

Last updated: August 2023