Personal Presentation

José N. Cruz is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of University of Porto (FDUP). He holds a PhD in Economics and is member of the Centre of Research in Law & Economics and of the Centre of Research of the School of Criminology of FDUP. In the School of Criminology he was in charge of an educational program about Economic Criminality. He participates in the network European Working Group on Organisational Crime (EUROC) and in the White Collar Crime Research Consortium (WCCRC). He is also member of the European Society of Criminology. He has published several monographies and scientific articles on lobbying and public choice, destructive entrepreneurship, white collar crime, academic ethics and the role of OECD and European Union regulations in improving international exchange of information in the field of taxation, and given several talks about the same issues. He is an experienced inter(national) speaker on institutional economic issues, namely white collar crime, interest groups and corruption, tax avoidance, secrecy jurisdictions and destructive entrepreneurship. His experience on management arose from being the CEO of a small company in the beginning of his career (during 10 years) and more recently he was the Dean of Faculty of Law (during 5 years). Presently, he is the Chairman of the Teaching Council of FDUP (since 2014). He has been teaching Economics and Organizational Behaviour in the Law degree and in the Master of Laws, and Topics of Economic and Financial Criminality in the Master of Criminology.

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