Nuno Severiano Teixeira


Henrique Nuno Pires Severiano Teixeira is a Portuguese academic and politician. Severiano Teixeira is a Full Professor at New University of Lisbon, and was also the Vice Rector of the same institution. He is Director of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations, an academic research institute that belongs to NOVA University of Lisbon. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University.
Nuno Severiano Teixeira was Minister of Internal Administration in the 14th Constitutional Government, the second of the Prime Minister António Guterres. He was also Minister of Defense in the 17th Constitutional Government, the first of the Prime Minister José Sócrates.
Severiano Teixeira is the author of several publications in the fields of Military History, International Relations, Security and Defense, and European Integration.

Background

Nuno Severiano Teixeira was born in Portuguese Guinea, in 1957, when his father was serving in military mission. He is a descendant of Colonel José Manuel Severiano Teixeira, who was awarded Commander of the Order of Avis, in 1989.
Nuno Severiano Teixeira was also awarded. He received the Grade of Commander of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator, and also the Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator.
The former Minister graduated in History in 1981, from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, and holds a PhD in History of International Relations from the European University Institute, Florence, 1994. Nuno Severiano Teixeira has also the Habilitation degree in Political Science and International Affairs, from the New University of Lisbon.
Severiano Teixeira began teaching in the 1980s, as a Professor at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Évora, between 1982 and 1994. He also taught at the History Department of the Institute of Labor Science and Enterprise in Lisbon, between 2002 and 2006, and at the Portuguese Catholic University, between 1998 and 2013. He is currently Professor in the Department of Political Studies at NOVA University of Lisbon.
As a visiting Professor he taught at Georgetown University, at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute, in Florence.
Nuno Severiano Teixeira was Director of the National Defense Institute between 1996 and 2000.

Duties in the Government of Portugal