PhD in Law, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Permanent State Councilor and Chairman of the Eighth Section of the State Council. MA in Law, University of Virginia (USA). Certified Environmental Manager, School of Business Administration, Bentley College (USA) (1999). Until June 2006, he was UNESCO Professor of Planning and Environment at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; Professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California, at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law of the College of William and Mary (Virginia, USA) and at Harvard Law School (Massachusetts, USA).