Nazaré da Costa Cabral

Law Degree, FDL (1994); Master’s Degree in Legal-Community Sciences, FDL (1998); PhD in Law (Legal-Economic Sciences), UL (2007); Degree in Economics, Nova School of Business & Economics (2015); Between 1997 and 2002 and between 2005 and 2007, she performed legal advisory and consultancy roles in government offices, in the areas of Labor and Social Security; In 2014, she was appointed by the Minister of State and Finance as a member of the Working Group in charge of reviewing the Budgetary Framework Law; In 2015, she was hired, as a national expert, to join the European project entitled “Network of Experts on Intra-EU Mobility – Free Movement of Workers and Social Security Coordination” (social protection of migrant workers, known as FreSsco for short) and also, as a national expert, to be part of the project “National feasibility assessment of the different European unemployment benefit scheme options”, carried out by the consortium led by the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), with the European Commission, and responsible for evaluating the conditions and feasibility of creation of a European-wide unemployment benefit; In 2018, she was appointed to join, as an expert, the High-level Group of Experts on Pensions, at the European Commission, a role she held until 2019; Since March 2019 – she has chaired the Superior Council of the Public Finance Council.