Miguel De Serpa Soares Biography

Miguel de Serpa Soares is the United Nations Legal Counsel and Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs. He is in charge of the Office of Legal Affairs, whose ultimate goal is to provide the UN with a uniform central legal service. Serpa Soares was Director-General of the Department of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal from 2008 to his present post. Since 2010, Serpa Soares has also served as a member of The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration. He served as Legal Adviser to the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union in Brussels earlier in his career (1999-2008). Serpa Soares was born in Angola in 1967 and possesses a law degree from the University of Lisbon's Faculty of Law, where he also worked as an Assistant Lecturer from 1989 to 1993, as well as a Diplôme de Hautes Etudes Juridiques Européennes from the Collège d'Europe in Bruges.

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