PhD in Politics from the University of Bristol and Advance Training programme by the Prince of Wales’s Program on Business and Sustainability for Senior Executives, in the Leadership and Sustainability Institute at the University of Cambridge, is Associated Academic in the International Academy for Portuguese Culture.

Significant professional experience in different industries, including, Diplomacy, Financial Services, Public Sector, Private Business, Higher Education, NGOs, media and working with International Organisations. Served as Secretary of State for International Trade and Foreign Investment, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Honorary Consul of Botswana in Portugal. Lived and worked in Belgium, Brazil, Portugal, Timor Leste and the United Kingdom.