 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.