Irene has a bachelor's degree in Accounting and Administration, with a major in Taxation. She's also the director of the portuguese tax and custom council services, being a lecturer at Iscte in the field of tax and accounting. She's the executive coordinator of the Post-Graduate degree in Tax Management at Iscte Executive Education and trainer in several Professional Organizations. Irene is also a consultant for Banco Mundial and author of several papers in the taxation field, being the co-author of the book "Guide to Portuguese taxes" (26 ed.)