Tiago Antunes is a Law Professor at the University of Lisbon, a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Tirana Campus) and a Senior Fellow of the Florence School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute. He also co-chairs the War Economy Taskforce within the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
Professor Antunes has a long and diverse professional record in the fields of law and policy, both from a researcher and a practitioner perspective. Along with his academic career, he has held public office for several years, in different capacities and often with a strong connection to the European Union.
In the Portuguese Government, Tiago Antunes has served as Secretary of State for European Affairs (2022-2024), Secretary of State Assistant to the Prime Minister (2019-2022) and Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (2017-2019). Before, he had worked in the European Parliament (2016-2017).
Professor Antunes obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Lisbon, where he has been a member of the Faculty since 2001 and is a Researcher of the Lisbon Public Law Research Centre (LPL).
He has authored an extensive number of publications, namely in the fields of Environmental, Administrative, Constitutional and European Union Law, and is regularly invited to speak at conferences and seminars, both in Portugal and abroad.
In the field of European Union Studies, his academic interests vary from Enlargement Policy to the Rule of Law. In his current research, Professor Antunes focuses on the process of internal reforms the EU will have to go through in order to be able to accept and function efficiently with up to ten new Member States, as well as on ways to improve the EU rule of law toolbox, not only as an accession criterion for candidate countries, but as a permanent requirement of EU membership, thus ensuring a high level of protection for fundamental rights and democratic institutions throughout the European Union.