João Félix Pinto Nogueira, PhD in Tax Law, is Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University
(“Universidade Católica Portuguesa”). He is Deputy Academic Chairman at IBFD and team manager
of IBFD Academic. He is honorary associate professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
and regular visiting lecturer at several universities. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the World Tax
Journal, of the Global Tax Treaty Commentaries, of the Doctoral Series and of the International Tax
Studies. He is a member of the list of independent persons of standing of the European Commission
and, as such, authorised to serve as arbitrator for the purposes of the EU tax dispute resolution
directive. He was a lawyer at one of Portugal’s most reputed tax law firms.
His areas of expertise are international and European tax law, fields in which he has published a
dissertation and several articles and book chapters. Prof. Nogueira has more than twenty years of
experience in teaching at both the graduate and post-graduate levels and is currently overseeing
several master’s courses on EU and international tax law, taught in different languages.
He has extensive experience in supervising academic works (at the master’s, doctoral and
postdoctoral levels), including several prize-winning theses. He is regularly invited to present at
conferences and seminars on both EU and international taxation and is frequently appointed as a
national reporter for Portugal. Besides his scientific activities at IBFD, he collaborates actively with
research centres in several EU countries. For several years, Prof. Nogueira served as co-arbitrator of
the IBFD-KU Leuven International and European Tax Moot Court Competition, responsible for
drafting the cases. Since 2018, he has been appointed as judge of the final rounds. His experience
also comprises governmental consultancy, in which context he has been asked to assess, advise and
train several tax authorities, including some of the most advanced in the world. He has lectured or
been scientifically active in more than 30 countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia.
He is a member of the EATLP, IFA, IFA Portugal (Associação Fiscal Portuguesa) and IBDT. He is the
Vice-President of the AFP / IFA Portugal. He is a member (and the scientific secretary) of the ECJ Task
Force of the Confédération Fiscale Européenne. He is also a member of the Executive Board of the
ILADT (Directorio). He is a member of the editorial board and council of several periodicals on
international taxation and frequently acts as an external peer reviewer. He was a member of the
Permanent Scientific Committee of IFA Central from 2009 until 2025 and the General Reporter of
Main Topic One of the International Fiscal Association 2025 Annual Congress in Lisbon, focusing on
“residence of legal entities”.
Academic Portals:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3402074
https://ibfd.academia.edu/Jo%C3%A3oNogueira
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joao_Felix_Pinto_Nogueira2
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=3N35T9sAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
https://joaofelixpintonogueira.com/
https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/persons/jo%C3%A3o-f%C3%A9lix-pinto-nogueira