Poiares Maduro was an
Advocate General at the
European Court of Justice in Luxembourg from 7 October 2003 to 6 October 2009. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar of Law at
Harvard University, He is Doctor in law at the European University Institute and won the Purpose Prize Europe for the best PhD thesis at the institute that year. He has worked as a lecturer at numerous institutions, including:
College of Europe,
Catholic University of Lisbon, the
New University of Lisbon,
School of Economics London,
School of Chicago Law School, Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies in Spain, Instituto Ortega y Gasset in Madrid and Institute of European Studies of Macau. Maduro belonged to the Political Committee of candidate
Aníbal Cavaco Silva in the 2011 presidential elections. Between 2012 and 2013, Poiares Maduro served as member of the
European Commission’s High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism, an advisory panel set up by
European Commissioner Neelie Kroes and chaired by
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga. From 13 April 2013 to 30 October 2015, Maduro was Minister for Regional Development in the centre-right Portuguese government of
Pedro Passos Coelho. In 2016, Poiraes Maduro was elected as chairman of the
FIFA Governance Committee and its independent Review Committee; his co-chairman is
Mukul Mudgal. ==Recognition==