Permanent State Councilor and Chairman of the Eighth Section of the State Council. Master of Laws by the University of Virginia (USA). Certified Environmental Manager by the School of Business Administration, Bentley College (USA) (1999). Until June 2006, he has been UNESCO Full Professor of Planning and Environment at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; Professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law of the College of William and Mary (Virginia, USA) and at Harvard Law School (Massachusetts, USA).