António Tavares is Adjunct Associate Professor at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV).
He is also associate professor at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, where he has held various positions over the past 20 years, including department chair, director of the Research Centre in Public Administration and Policy and director of the Ph.D. in Administrative Sciences.
He has coordinated several research projects, including “Quality of Local Governance in Portugal” and “C2P2 – Continuity and Change in Portuguese Policymaking (1975-2020)”, both financed by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. He was also the coordinator of the research line “EGOV for Context-Specific Public Service Delivery” as part of the project “SmartEGOV: Harnessing EGOV for Smart Governance (Foundations, Methods, Tools) (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000037)”, and principal investigator of research line “Digital Media and Digital Democracy” of the “Core Research Programme 2017-2019 - Digital Transformation for Better Governance and Sustainable Development” at UNU-EGOV.
He is senior field editor of the Journal of Public Policy (Cambridge), following his tenure as co-editor of the Urban Affairs Review (2013-2019). His research interests comprise topics in the fields of local government and urban politics, including policy-driven electronic governance, transparency and accountability, civic and political engagement, territorial reforms, and, more generally, urban and regional governance. His research has been published in a wide range of journals in political science, public administration and urban studies, including Government Information Quarterly, Public Administration, Policy Studies Journal, Public Management Review, International Review of Administrative Sciences and Local Government Studies.
António received a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from the Reubin O’D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University, a master’s in Public Administration from the University of Minho, Portugal, and a BA in Organizational Sociology from the University of Minho, Portugal. He teaches Local Government, Theories of the Policy Process, and Public Policy Analysis and Evaluation, and is involved in professional training for upper-level civil servants in the fields of public policy and public administration.