He graduated in law at San Pablo University, Madrid. He was an Erasmus student at Augsburg University, Germany, and obtained a Master's degree in EU law (LL.M, mention très bien) in 2002 from the College of Europe Institute. He started his career as a teaching assistant at the College of Europe and after two years he joined the US law firm Latham and Watkins, specialising in European competition law. Thereafter, he continued his career in the European Parliament, where he worked for two years in the Legal, Market and Home Affairs section of the Spanish delegation of the European People's Party (Partido Popular).

In 2008, he continued his career at the European Commission, following a successful open competition. He started his career at the High Commission for Justice, and from 2011 he was a staff member of the EU High Commission for Internal Affairs, where he was responsible for the foreign affairs aspects of the EU's migration policy in relation to Morocco and Black Africa. During this time, he traveled to Africa and initiated immigration-related dialogue with several African countries.

Between November 2014 and December 2019, he joined the Cabinet of EU Commissioner Tibor Navracsics at the European Commission, where he was responsible for primary and secondary education. His activities included the expansion of entrepreneurship education in the EU and he was the lead organiser of the 2018 and 2019 European Education Summits. He was also responsible for liaising with the European People's Party and was a frequent speaker at debates, meetings and conferences.

Since 2010 he has been a visiting lecturer in European Union law at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He is fluent in Spanish, French and English, has a good knowledge of German and Italian and he speaks Hungarian at beginner level.