The Team

Estrela Chaby is a Judge, having joined the Centro de Estudos Judiciários in 1997. In jurisdiction, she exercised functions in the general jurisdiction, in the civil area and in the family and children’s area. She graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (1994), post-graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon…

Ravi Afonso Pereira was born in Lisbon in 1981. He graduated in Law from the Law Faculty of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2004), where he is currently completing his doctoral dissertation. He is a researcher in the areas of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and European Constitutional Law, and author of scientific articles published in Portugal and abroad. He was…

Ricardo Carvalho was born in Lisbon on 10 August 1975. He has a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. Jurist and lawyer, he was a member of the CID Coordination Group – Social Audit Plan, in the area of prevention of ill-treatment of children and young people, the elderly and people with disabilities housed…

Helena Afonso was born in Mozambique in 1967. She holds a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (1985/1990) and a post-graduate degree in European Studies from the European Institute of the same Faculty. She has first practiced as a lawyer, and then has held technical, intermediate and senior management positions in the Public…

Miguel Feldmann was born in Lisbon on 18th October 1967. He graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the Universidade Católica de Lisboa and attended the Institute of European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Jurist and lawyer, he performed functions as Advisor to the Ombudsman between 1999 and 2007. Having integrated the office of the Secretary…

Born in Coimbra in 1971. Graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (1995), where she completed the academic part of the Masters’ in Legal and Political Sciences (1998-1999) and the postgraduate degree in Medical Law (2003-2004). There she was also Trainee-Assistant, in the subjects of Constitutional Law and Political Science and Public and European…

Elsa Maria Henriques Dias was born in Alverca do Ribatejo on the 10 March, 1966. She holds a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, with postgraduate degrees in European Studies and on Organizations’ Fiscal Management. She was legal advser at the Office of the Chief Financial Officer of Lisbon and was a lawyer…

João António Portugal was born in Leiria on the 27th January, 1965. He holds a degree in Law (Political and Legal Sciences) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He was a trainee assistant professor in Political Science, Constitutional Law and Public International Law. Since 1993, he has been working at the Ombudsman. From 1998 till 2022,…

Maria Teresa de Lemos dos Santos Bessa was born in Coimbra, on January 5th, 1968. She has a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and a post-graduate degree in Political-Administrative Sciences (administrative branch) from the same Faculty. She practiced law and was Sub-Inspector General in the General Inspection of Justice Services. She began…

Jorge Silva Sampaio has a doctorate (2022), a master’s degree (2011) and a degree in Law (2005), in the area of Legal and Political Sciences, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (FDUL). In terms of teaching and research activity, he is currently a guest Assistant Professor at FDUL, where he has been teaching since 2012, an…

Sofia Duarte has a law degree in Legal and Political Sciences (2008) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. She completed a master’s degree in European Union Law (2009) and a postgraduate degree in Corporate Governance, Compliance and Public Supervision (2022) from the same Faculty, as well as a postgraduate degree in Banking, Stock Exchange and Insurance…

Ricardo Neves has a law degree (2015) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. He is currently a guest assistant and master’s student in Administrative Law at the same institution, where he has been teaching Introduction to the Study of Law and Administrative Law since 2020. He also has a postgraduate degree in Arbitration Law from the…

João Tornada holds a Master’s degree (2019) and a Bachelor’s degree in Law (2015) from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University – Lisbon. He is currently a visiting assistant and doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he has been teaching since 2022, in the areas of Constitutional Law (Fundamental Rights,…

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Lina Rocha Mascarenhas was born in Lisbon on the 22 June, 1963. She studied Secretarial Techniques and attended the Translators and Interpreters Course of the Superior Institute of Languages and Administration. She entered the Ombudsman’s Office in 1996 and since then has worked as Personal Secretary of successive Ombudspersons. Previously, she had been the Secretary of the Office of the…

Sara Patrícia Santos Duarte was born in Coimbra on the 6th December, 1976. She holds a degree in Modern Languages and Literature from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra (2001). She has been Secretary to the Office of the Ombudsman since 2013, accumulating, since 2016, the same function in the National Prevention Mechanism. Between 2009 and 2013…

Susana Santos was born in Lisbon in 1977. She holds a degree in Marketing and Consumer Affairs from Instituto Superior de Santarém (2002). As part of the Socrates-Erasmus program, she attended classes at Hogescholl West-Vlaanderen and was an interna t the Chemistry Company Corn, Van Loocke in Bruges, Belgium. Between 2003 and 2005 she provided technical and administrative support to…