Founding partner of ANH Law Firm, he holds a bachelor’s degree in Law and in Business Administration, both from Universidade Braz Cubas. He earned a master’s degree in International Relations from Nihon University, where he wrote a thesis focused on the theoretical structure of Brazilian, Japanese, and Anglo-American contract law, with particular emphasis on the Anglo-American Common Law theory of consideration. The thesis was written in Japanese. In 2005, he completed an advanced English extension course in the Integrated Skills format at Harvard University in the United States. He was an entrepreneur in the tourism industry for about 15 years, operating in both Brazil and abroad. He is fluent in Portuguese, Japanese, English, and Spanish, and has intermediate proficiency in French.