Paulo Rangel has a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University and is a lawyer by profession. He is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University in Porto, where he taught Administrative Law and Constitutional Law and where he teaches Political Science. Since 2011, he has also been a lecturer on the Executive MBA at the University of Porto Business School.

He has been vice-president of the PSD since July 3, 2022. In the European Parliament, as an MEP, he was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. During his last term, he was a member of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Committee on Stabilization and Association between the EU and Montenegro, as well as the Delegation for Relations with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. He was the author of the report on the European Parliament’s right of legislative initiative, approved in June 2022.

He was Deputy Minister of Justice in the XVI Constitutional Government between July 2004 and March 2005 and is currently the Minister of State and Foreign Affairs of Portugal.