Nuno Bessa Moreira was born in Porto in 1976. He graduated in History from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto in 1999. He completed his master’s degree in Modern History, with a thesis on Cardinal Henry (1539-1578), in 2004. In February 2013 he took public examinations for his doctorate in History, under the guidance of Professor Armando Luís de Carvalho Homem, incident on the Revista de História (1912/1928), a periodical directed by Fidelino de Figueiredo. He completed, in 2016, the National Defense Course, having defended his final research paper in public examinations.