Tiago de Matos Fernandes

• Partner at Sfera Legal, Portugal (since 2026)
• Partner at Matos Fernandes & Associados (2002-2025)
• Associate (2000-2002) and Trainee Lawyer (1998-2000) at Correia Afonso, Archer & Associados
• President of the Advisory Board (2020-2024) and President of the Board of Directors (2015-2017) at TESE
• President of the General Assembly at TECNOPLANO (since 2007)
• Lecturer at the Portuguese Catholic University (Lisbon and Oporto), and trainer on European Union contractual and financial procedures at the European Commission (Brussels) and the Portuguese National Institute of Public Administration
• International consultant for the World Bank, the European Union, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Organization for Migration and OECD
(among several other multilateral organizations, private foundations and cooperation agencies), having provided services in over 50 countries across Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, in the fields of international public procurement, institutional development, WASH sector regulation, third sector funding, digital transformation of the public sector and regularization and integration of migrants (since 2004)
• Practice areas: Corporate Law and Labor Law (Private and Public); Administrative Law, Public Procurement (National and International) and European Union Law; Immigration Law

• International Program for Development Evaluation Training, Carleton University/The World Bank (2009)
• Master’s Degree in African Studies and Development, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon (2005)
• Post-graduate Degree in European Studies (European Union Law), University of Lisbon School of Law (1999)
• Law Degree, University of Lisbon School of Law (1997)

• Portuguese Bar Association (since 2000)

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