An environmental engineer from the Portuguese Catholic University, he has a master's degree in Social Economy from the same university on the global value that corporate volunteering generates, having helped several companies in Spain and Portugal on this subject. He has worked at EDP since 2001 and spent 15 months as the field manager in a UNHCR refugee camp in Kakuma (Kenya) during 2010, with the aim of testing environmental and renewable energy solutions in the context of refugee camps. He worked at the EDP Foundation between 2011 and 2016, was the founder and manager of the EDP group's Volunteering Program, and is now responsible for the community relations team at EDP Produção.

He was born in Porto in 1977, is married, has 2 children, is Catholic and involved in social causes. He has been involved in the area of social action volunteering for 22 years, was at the foundation of the FASRondas group in Porto, where he was in the general coordination of this group for 4 years, and he is still a volunteer. He has been a guest lecturer at the Postgraduate Course in Management of Social Economy Organizations at Universidade Católica Portuguesa since 2019.

Between 2012 and 2018, he was on the board of the São Cirilo Community Center, which supports immigrants in Porto, and on the board of the UDIPSS Porto between 2015 and 2018. He is responsible for the institutional relations of Plataforma + Emprego, a project of Porto institutions that work with homeless people, which aims to place them on the job market, and which has already placed more than 120 people on the job market. He coordinates the Voluntary Organizations section of the Porto Planning and Integration Centre for People Experiencing Homelessness (NPISA), which brings together more than 50 organizations that support these people.

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