Vítor Caldeira holds a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and a postgraduate degree in European Studies from the European Institute of the same Faculty.  

He has a long career of public service which began at the Inspectorate-General of Finance in 1984, where he served as Sub-Inspector-General (between 1995 and 2000). He was a member of the European Court of Auditors from 2000 to 2016 and elected its President for three successive terms between 2008 and 2016. 

Between 2016 and 2020 he assumed the functions of President of the Court of Auditors and, inherently, those of President of the Council for the Prevention of Corruption. 

He returned to IGF in 2020 and is currently a member of the Audit and Control Committee of the Recovery and Resilience Programme (RRP). He is also a Visiting Professor at Nova University-IMS and at ISCTE-IUL. 

 Throughout his career he has also held other activities, namely consultant to the OECD under the SIGMA initiative (1997-1999); member of the Joint Review Commission of EUROPOL (2002 - 2004); member of the Advisory Committee of the Academy of European Law (2008 - 2011); member of the Governing Boards of the European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions - EUROSAI (2011 - 2016) and the World Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions - INTOSAI (2017 - 2020), as well as member of the Board of the INTOSAI Development Initiative - IDI (2018 - 2021). He was also Auditor of EUROSAI (2008 - 2010) and External Auditor of EUMETSAT (2017 - 2020).           

Guest speaker at different conferences and seminars, he has written on topics of public finance, financial control and audit.

 He has been awarded national and international decorations and honorary distinctions: Grand Cross of the Military Order of Christ, Portugal, 2014; Order of Merit of Supervision in the Americas, 2014; Commander Cross of the Order of Merit, Poland, 2015; Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique, Portugal, 2020; Professor Honoris Causa, Sofia University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria, 2008; Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Tirana, Albania (2015).