Ana Paula Dourado is Full Professor of Tax Law and International and European Tax Law at the University of Lisbon, Director of the Centre for Research in European, Economic, Financial and Tax Law (CIDEEFF), and the Editor-in-Chief of the Kluwer Tax Journal Intertax. She has been a visiting Professor of several European Universities, at the University of Florida, the MoF in Taiwan. And the African Lusophone Universities. She is a founding member of Group for Research on European and International Taxation (GREIT).
Ana Paula Dourado has grafted and negotiated reforms in Portuguese speaking countries as an expert at the legal department of the International Monetary Fund (since 2003); and tax reforms on direct taxation and tax procedure for the Timor-Leste government (2015-2016).
She was a member of the Centre for Tax Studies at the Portuguese Ministry of Finance and a delegate for Portugal in the working groups for direct tax harmonization at the European Community and in the working group for tax avoidance and evasion at the OECD.
She is a member of the scientific boards of several Tax Journals.
Dourado was a Member of the EATLP Academic Committee (2007-2012, 2018-2020); of the EATLP Executive Board (2012-2017); and of the TAXUD Platform on Tax Good Governance (since 2013-2019).
Her research interests and publications focus on International, European and Comparative Tax Law, International Tax Justice, Constitutional & Fundamentals of Tax Law, Procedure Tax Law, Direct Taxes.