Nuno Miguel Soares Banza graduated in Environmental Engineering and Master in Spatial Planning and Impacts, from the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. PhD candidate in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon.

He was a senior technician in Environmental Engineering at the Instituto da Conservação da Natureza (currently ICNF, I. P.), having been responsible for the specialty of environmental engineering in the work on the Planning Plans for the Arrábida Natural Park and the Estuário do Estuary Natural Reserve.
Sado. He was a senior technician at the Barreiro City Council, having exercised the role of Coordinator of the Environment Working Group and Head of the Environmental Sustainability Division, having been responsible for coordinating the Municipal Environmental Plan of Barreiro, as well as several community projects.

He was responsible for applying to the IEE/EACI Community Program which financed the creation of the Regional Energy Agency for the municipalities of Barreiro, Moita, Montijo and Alcochete (S. energia), of which he was Technical Director. In this capacity, he coordinated several regional works in the area of ​​Energy and Climate Change. He was a member of the Installation Commission of the National Network of Energy Agencies — RNAE.

He was the founder of the Local Nature Reserve of Mata Nacional da Machada and Sapal do Rio Coina, of which he was the first President of the Directive Commission, while elected local. He was responsible for the LIFE Biodiversity Application approved by the European Commission for the Local Nature Reserve. He held the position of Sub-Inspector General at the General Inspectorate for Agriculture, Sea, Environment and Spatial Planning (IGAMAOT) between March 2013 and May 2014 and the position of Inspector General between May 2014 and May 2019.

Represented the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities in the Coordination Group of the National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change. In the private sector, he was a manager of environmental projects and a consultant for several entities in the area of ​​Environmental Impact Assessment. He is the author and co-author of several publications in his area of ​​expertise and a regular contributor to some newspapers, having been coordinator of the Portuguese case study of the European Project “Participatory Spatial Planning in Europe — PSPE”. He is an effective member of the Order of Engineers at the College of Environmental Engineering. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Humanitarian Association of Volunteer Firefighters of the South and Southeast, Barreiro. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests, I.P. since May 2019.