Alexandre Miguel Mestre is Assistant Professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a legal counsel at the law firm Abreu Advogados, working primarily in the areas of sports law and European Union law. He is an independent member of the UEFA Governance and Compliance Committee; a member of the Aquatics Integrity Unit - the adjudicatory body of the International Swimming Federation/World Aquatics - and a member of the Pierre de Coubertin International Committee. He was Secretary of State for Sport in Youth, in Portugal.