Nuno Durão joined International IDEA in 2008. He was the Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General as of 2014-2018 and 2020.

He is responsible for managing the Secretary-General´s active calendar of appointments and seminars, compiling meeting documents, completing expense reports, reimbursements, minute taking, composing and preparing correspondence, arranging complex and detailed travel plans.

Durão has worked in England, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland.