University professor, Director of the Institute of Political Studies, UCP
João Carlos Espada is the director and founder of the Institute of Political Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP), where he is Professor of Political Studies. He earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford, and has taught at Brown, Stanford and Georgetown Universities, in the US, and in the College of Europe in Warsaw, Poland.
He was political advisor to President Mário Soares (1986-1990) and President Cavaco Silva (2006-2011).