João Nogueira Martins (Sertã, 1967), educated at the Universities of Coimbra (Portugal) and Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) – Degree and Master in Economics, has been working for the EU institutions since 1994, after a few years teaching at the Coimbra Faculty of Economics (FEUC). He joined the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) of the European Commission, and moved then to the ECB (2000-02); in these two occasions he worked mainly on fiscal issues (Excessive Deficits Procedure and Stability and Growth Pact, and respective statistics). Back to DG ECFIN, he was then adviser to its Director General (2003-08), head of unit in charge of long-term fiscal sustainability (2009), and deputy mission chief (troika) during the first economic adjustment programme for Greece (2009-12). In 2014-15 he was adviser and then chief economic adviser (2015-19) to the President of the European Council (Donald Task). Since then, he is back to the European Commission as Head of the Unit in charge of economic policy coordination (Stability and Growth Pact, European Semester, Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure and Recovery and Resilience Facility).