Graduated in Law and postgraduate in Legal and Political Sciences from the Faculty of Law of Lisbon. PhD in Public Policy from ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Director of the Master in Public Administration and Coordinator of the Training Courses in Higher Management in Public Administration. He held senior positions in the Coordination Commission of the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region and in the Center for Regional and Local Development Studies. Consultant for the reform of the State and Public Administration in the framework of EU projects, namely in the PALOP countries, Brazil and countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, as well as in China.