António Tavares is associate professor w/ habilitation at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal. He is also adjunct associate professor at the Operational Unit of Policy-Driven Electronic Governance of the United Nations University in Guimarães, Portugal. His research interests comprise topics in the fields of local government and urban politics, including territorial reforms, regional governance, service delivery, and political and civic engagement. His research has been published in a wide range of journals in political science, public administration and urban studies. Between December 2013 and December 2019, he was co-editor of the Urban Affairs Review, the journal affiliated with the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. He is the author of the book essay Administração Pública Portuguesa (2019, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos).

Tavares received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from the Reubin O’D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University, a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Minho, Portugal, and a B.A. 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 administration.