Porto School of Law Open class: New ways of war and the consequences for Portugal

The Porto School of Law organises the Online Open Class "New forms of war and the consequences for Portugal" on April 28th, at 9:30 a.m. The speaker will be the Portuguesa Minister of National Defense, João Gomes Cravinho. If you would like to attend, please register here.

The students of the Degree in Law were invited to attend the event in person. For this purpose, they should check the institutional email and register using the form that was sent.

Biography

João Gomes Cravinho was born in Lisbon in June 1964. PhD in Political Science, from the Oxford University, and with a Master's and Bachelor's degree from the London School of Economics, João Gomes Cravinho is ambassador of the European Union in Brazil since August 2015, having held the same position in India between 2011 and 2015.

Between March 2005 and June 2011, João Gomes Cravinho was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, in the XVII and XVIII Constitutional Governments. Previously, he worked as a faculty member of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, and as a invited professor at ISCTE and the Faculty of Law of the New University of Lisbon. 

He worked as a Consultant at the National Defence Institute, from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the European Commission and the World Bank. Between 2001 and 2002 he chaired the Portuguese Cooperation Institute.

Completed the Leadership for Senior Executives course at Harvard Business School. Author of a book entitled Visions of the World (2002), João Gomes Cravinho published numerous articles in specialized academic journals and in newspapers on topics related to defense policy, cooperation and international relations.