Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa and Chairman of the Management Commission of Partex Oil and Gas Group. Graduated in Mining Engineering by Instituto Superior Técnico (1983), master in Petroleum Engineering by the Imperial College of London (1984) and PhD (1994) by the Imperial College of London and Technical University of Lisbon with dissertation on The Development of Stochastic Models applied to Petroleum Reservoirs. As a professional and Researcher he is a Senior Reservoir Engineer with more than 25 years of experience in Reservoir Characterization namely integration of geosciences and reservoir engineering, building of dynamic simulation models and use of mathematical and stochastic methods; also in-depth knowledge of reservoir management, design of full-field development plans, evaluation of reserves, and integrated planning to maximize oil recovery. Experience in several areas of the world like North Sea, Middle East, Central Asia, West Africa and North and South America. He is often invited to participate in Energy Conferences in the country and abroad including, among others, the following: the Transatlantic Dialogues about energy organized by the Marshall Fund of USA and Germany in Potsdam (2007); the Seminar about Energy Security organized by the Deutsch Bank in Berlin, as part of the preparation of the G-8 summit (2007); the Seminar of the Brookings Institution held in Washington on “Transatlantic Energy Strategies and Resource Nationalism” (2010); the ADIPEC CEO’s Summit held in Abu Dhabi (2010); the “World Upstream Conference” held in Geneva (2011); the Seminar on “Global Security Challenges for Europe” organized by the European University Institute in Firenze, Italy (2011); the “23rd Annual Middle East, Petroleum & Gas Conferences 2015” held in Abu Dhabi (2015); the ADNOC CEO’s Summit, held in in Abu Dhabi in 2016 and 2017.