He got his PhD in Economics from the University of Leicester College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities and his Master’s degree in Historical Sociology and Economics from Nova University Lisbon. He was a member of the Portuguese parliament, vice-president of the Committee on Budget, Finance and Administrative Modernisation and member of the Ad Hoc Committee for Strengthening Transparency in the Exercise of Public Duties. He is a visiting researcher at several foreign universities: U. Van Amsterdam (Netherlands), London School of Economics and Leicester University (UK), Turku (Finland) New York and Yale Universities (USA).

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