Executive Chairman of the Mestre Casais Foundation and Professor of Regional and Urban Systems at the University of Minho.
He was Secretary of State for the Environment, Secretary of State for Mobility, Secretary of State for Planning and Member of Parliament.
He was Chairman of the Transport Decarbonization Alliance (2017-2019), a global alliance of countries, cities and companies promoting decarbonisation of transport by 2050. He was a consultant and evaluator for the European Commission (2000-2015). As a professor and researcher, he has worked at various universities in Italy, Poland, the US, Brazil and Mozambique. He is a civil engineer, with a doctorate and habilitation in regional and urban systems, as well as postgraduate degrees from the University of Oxford, Harvard and University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE).