João Félix Pinto Nogueira, PhD in Tax Law, is a Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University (“Universidade Católica Portuguesa”). He serves as Deputy Academic Chairman at the International Bureau of Fiscal IBFD and team manager of IBFD Academic. He is the Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Portuguese Securities Market Commission. He was appointed an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and a regular visiting lecturer at several universities worldwide. He holds the position of Deputy Editor-in-Chief in leading academic publications, including the World Tax Journal, the Global Tax Treaty Commentaries, the Doctoral Series, and International Tax Studies. He is listed among the independent persons of standing by the European Commission, being authorised to act as an arbitrator under the EU directive on tax dispute resolution. Earlier in his career, he was a lawyer at one of Portugal’s most prestigious law firms.

His areas of expertise are international and European tax law, fields in which he has  authored a dissertation, several academic manuals, numerous book chapters and a wide range of scientific articles. With over twenty years of teaching experience at both the graduate and post-graduate levels, he currently lectures in multiple master's programs on EU and International Tax Law.

He has extensive experience supervising academic works at the master's, doctoral and postdoctoral levels, including several award-winning theses. He is frequently invited to speak at international conferences and seminars, and often serves as national reporter for Portugal. In addition to his work at IBFD, he actively collaborates with research centres across the European Union. For several years, he served as co-arbitrator of the IBFD-KU Leuven International and European Tax Moot Court Competition, where he was responsible for drafting the cases. His professional experience also includes governmental consultancy, having been invited to assess, advise, and train various tax administrations, among them some of the most advanced in the world. He has lectured and contributed to academic initiatives in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Africa and and Asia.

Prof. Nogueira is a member of the EATLP, IFA, IBDT, and IFA Portugal (“Associação Fiscal Portuguesa”), where he currently serves as Vice-President. 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 sits on the editorial boards of several international tax journals and frequently acts as an external peer reviewer. In 2025, he served as General Reporter for Main Topic One at the IFA Annual Congress held in Lisbon, focusing on residence for corporate income tax purposes, and was also a member of the event’s organising committee. From 2009 to 2025, he served as a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of IFA.