Nazaré da Costa Cabral holds a license degree (1994), a Masters (1998), and a PhD (2007) in law, from Lisbon Law School (Faculdade de Direito, Universidade de Lisboa), and she holds a license degree in economics (2015), from Nova SBE - School of Business & Economics (Universidade Nova de Lisboa).
Nazaré is Associate Professor in tenure, in Lisbon Law School. She also lectures in other Universities, either in Portugal or abroad. Nazaré is principal researcher of the Center for European, Economic, Fiscal and Tax Law Research (CIDEFF) of Lisbon Law School (Group IV on ‘Crises, Public Policies, Fiscal Policy and the Euro’). She is also a member of the Board of ‘Instituto de Direito Económico, Financeiro e Fiscal’ (IDEFF), of the same School, in which she also lectures. Nazaré is vice-president of the journal Revista de Finanças Públicas e Direito Fiscal (Public Finances and Tax Law Journal), published by IDEFF and Almedina Editors. She is also a member of the Executive and Editorial Board of the journal Concorrência & Regulação (Competition & Regulation), published by The Portuguese Competition Authority, IDEFF and Almedina Editors, and a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Economia & Segurança Social (Economics & Social Security), published by Diário de Bordo Editores.
Nazaré is author of several books, articles and working papers, and her research areas are mainly on Public Finances, Public Budgeting, and Social Security.
Professional experience
Between 1997 and 2002 and between 2005 and 2007, Nazaré worked as a legal adviser in the Labor and Social Security Minister and Secretary of State Offices.
During these periods, she was member of several working groups charged with social security laws revision (e.g. Social Security Framework Laws of 2000 and of 2007, Social Security financing sources regime, and pensions system law). She was also member of the Working Group for the Financing Sources of the Portuguese Social Security System, that produced the report entitled ‘The Financial Sustainability of the Social Security System’ (2002).
In 2014, Nazaré was appointed by the Ministry of State and Finance to integrate the Working Group charged with the reform of the Portuguese ‘Budget Framework Law’.
Currently (since 2015), she is national expert at FreSsco (‘Network of Experts on Intra-EU Mobility - Free Movement of Workers and Social Security Coordination’) and also of the EU project entitled ‘National feasibility assessment of the different European unemployment benefit scheme options’. Nazaré is author of several books, articles and working papers, and her research areas are mainly on Public Finances, Public Budgeting, and Social Security.
