Lourenço Vilhena de Freitas

He has held several positions in the Portuguese government, including deputy secretary of state for Tax Affairs, deputy-substitute for the Cabinet Chief of the State Secretariat for Public Administration, and deputy state secretary for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. 

He was a member of the Portuguese government’s administrative reform committee (XVI Constitutional Government of Portugal). He advised on the legislative reform in the oil sector, the reform of the General Cultural Heritage Act in Portugal, and on the reform of judicial review in Guinea Bissau.

He is an arbitrator at the Arbitration Center of the Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Portuguesa and at CAAD – Centro de Arbitragem Administrativa. He was vice-chair of the Arbitration and Litigation Resolution Center at Universidade de Lisboa.

He is an associate lecturer at Universidade de Lisboa and a guest lecturer at Universidade Lusíada. He was an assistant professor at Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas and a lecturer of interdisciplinary legal practice (public law) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

He has taught subjects including public procurement, administrative procedures, energy, urban planning, EU law, international law and constitutional law. He has also lectured on several master and postgraduate programs covering energy, public procurement and arbitration in Portugal and abroad at various faculties of law, including at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Maputo), Universidade José Eduardo dos Santos (Huambo), Universidade Mandume Ya Ndemufayo (Lubango), Faculdade de Direito de Bissau, Universidade do Mindelo, and Universidade Agostinho Neto (Luanda).

He was director of the research project on energy law of the Center for Research in Public Law at Universidade de Lisboa.