Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon (FDL) Doctor in Law (PhD) (2005).
Associate Professor FDL (EU Law, Competition Law, Economic Regulation, Economic Law in general).Vice President of the Institute for University Cooperation of FDL (in charge of all scientific cooperation with Portuguese speaking countries). Vice-President of ECSA Portugal (Association of European Studies integrated in the ECSA World Network related with the European Commission Jean Monnet Program). Jean Monnet CHAIR (July 2009) – attributed by the European Commission with a Project of Teaching and Research on EU Economic Regulation. Founder and Chairman of CIRSF – Research Centre on Regulation and Supervision of the Financial Sector (having as Scientific Partners the Bank of Portugal and the Portuguese Insurance and Pension Fund Supervisory Authority). Member of the Board of AIDA Portugal – Portuguese Section of International Association of Insurance Law, based in Lisbon Law University (since July – 2015). Member of the Appeal Panel of the European Banking Single Resolution Board (SRB), as from October 2015.

Attorney at law - Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association – 1990 (with extensive previous experience and track-record as of counsel and as Partner of Lisbon based Law Firms, ensuring the responsibility for its competition, regulation or EU law departments).

He has been Member of the Board of Directors (Member of the Executive Board) of the Portuguese Supervisory Authority of Insurance and Pension Funds (“Instituto de Seguros de Portugal”, currently “Autoridade de Supervisão de Seguros e de Fundos de Pensões – ASF”) (1998-2001). Member of Economic and Financial Council of the Portuguese Ministry of Finance – holding the position of Vice-President of the Special Unit for Privatization of State-Owned Companies (2001-2011).  Chief of Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Treasury and Finance (XIII Constitutional Government – 1996-1998 – under Professor António Sousa Franco as then acting Minister of Finance of Portugal in a period that comprehended Portugal accession to the Euro area); Member of several Arbitral Courts (and appreciable experience as arbitrator); 

He has acted as attorney of the Portuguese State in various cases before the European Court of Justice (ECJ – Luxembourg), from 2006 until now – mainly in areas involving the enforcement of economic regulation rules within the functioning of the internal market or competition law as well. President of Working Groups of the Council of the EU – W. Group on the Directive of Winding Up of Insurance Companies and W. Group on the Fourth Directive on Auto Insurance – during the Portuguese Presidency of the Council (first semester of 2000). Vice President – IAIFA (International Association against Fraud in Insurance) – 1998-2001. Member of the governing body of the general meeting of shareholders of SIBS – Sociedade Interbancária de Serviços (since 2007), the entity held by all the Portuguese banks which runs ATM systems in Portugal. Member of several Ministerial Commissions which have prepared Draft proposals of legislation in the economic and financial fields. Member of an Independent Commission established at the Bank of Portugal to assess possible reforms of prudential banking supervision in light of the Espirito Santo Bank (BES) case (first semester of 2015). Member of the Board (non-executive Member), Member of the Supervisory Board, and Member of Committees of General Meetings of Shareholders, of various Companies (between 1992 and 1996 and from 2001 until the present date).

NGA – Non Government Advisor at the ICN (International Competition Network). Member of several Ministerial Commissions which have prepared Draft proposals of legislation in the economic and financial fields.
Short-listed GCR (Global Competition Review) for the Academic Excellency Award 2011. He has acted as Co-Director of Competition & Regulation Review between 2010 and 2015 (on the basis of a Project of Scientific Cooperation with the Portuguese Competition Authority).

He has published extensively in the field of EU Law and, in particular, EU Competition Law, and also in the fields of economic and financial law in general and he is a frequent speaker in top conferences on EU law, competition and regulation, worldwide Recent Papers of his in English may be accessed through his Authors’s page of Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at http://ssrn.com/author=1644131