Ph.D. in Corporate Law at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, in 2015. LL.M. in Private Law at University of Lisbon Law School, in 1998. LL.M. in Public Law at Catholic University (Lisbon) Law School, in 1993. Law Degree at Catholic University (Lisbon) Law School, in 1988. PostDoc in Law at Instituto Jurídico of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, in 2022.

Ilídio Tomás Lopes was born on January 18, 1966, in the municipality of Abrantes (Portugal). He is currently a professor at "Iscte University Institute of Lisbon" and associate member of Bru_iscte Business Research Unit" of the same institution. He also teaches in the Executive Master in Business Management (Iscte_Executive Education) and in the Graduation of Economy and Regulation of Financial Institutions (Ipps_iscte). He is currently: Director of "Audax_iscte"; President of the Supervisory Board of  "Iscte Conhecimento e Inovação", and Member of the Supervision Committee of OROC - Ordem dos REvisores Oficiais de Contas. He was Non-Executive Director, Member of Auditing Committee and Member of the Corporate Governance Committe, of Banco BIC Português, S.A. (EuroBic); Member of the Supervisory Board of Novartis Farma - Produtos Farmacêuticos, SA.;PhD in Business Management, Specialization in Accounting (University of Coimbra, 2009), Master in Statistics and Information Management (ISEGI, New University of Lisbon, 2001) and Graduation in Business Organization and Management (ISEG, University of Lisbon, 1990). Over is career as professor (since 1994), he was a professor at the School of Management and Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém (1997 to 2013), acting between 2011 and 2013 dean of the institution. He was also a collaborative professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (2006 to 2011). Responsible for several curricular units such as: Auditing; Financial Auditing; Financial Performance Evaluation; Financial Accounting II; Bank Accounting.  He also held management positions in several multinational companies. Author of several scientific publications, member of several national and international scientific committees and reviewer of articles for scientific journals in the scientific fields of Management and Accounting. Author of the books "Management Control: An Integrated View of Business Performance" (Edições Almedina, 2019, 2020),  "Accounting and Finance for Non financial managers" (Edições Almedina, 2020), "Financial Auditing: From Internal Control to Independent External Control" (Edições Almedina, 2019, 2022), "Financial Accounting: Preparation of Financial Statements, Disclosure and Analysis" (Escolar Editora, 2013, 2017, 2021), "The Management of Intellectual Capital and Intangibles in the Age of Knowledge" (Escolar Editora, 2013) and" Financial Accounting: Resolved and Proposed Exercises" (Edições Almedina, 2017, 2019). Coauthor of the book "Societies: Accounting and Tax Aspects" (Escolar Editora, 2016), among others. He has published in several international journals, including: Measuring Business Excellence; International Journal of Business Excellence; International Journal of Disclosure and Governance; International Journal of Business Performance Management; Business: Theory and Practice, International Journal of Business Innovation and Research. His main areas of interest are: 1. Financial Accounting; 2. Corporate Governance; 3. Audit and Internal Control; 4. Financial Management and Performance; 5. Risk Assessment and Compliance.

João de Sousa Assis holds a PhD in Law from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he also tutored Business Organisations. He graduated in Law and holds a masters in Commercial Law, both from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Before joining the Iberian law firm Uría Menéndez, where he worked for two years as a trainee lawyer within the departments of M&A, TMT, banking and labour.  João regularly cooperates with international institutions such as the University of Thammasat (Thailand) or Symbiosis Law School Pune (India), holding the position of Integrated Researcher at IJP – Instituto Jurídico Portugalense research centre (Lisbon), and Research Fellow at the Centre for ASEAN Transnational Studies (CATS) of the University of Chiang Mai Faculty of Law (Thailand).

Graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, whith a Master's degree in Business Law, in the area of ​​Labor Law, from ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, she has a PhD in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Corunha (Spain) and from NOVA School of Law (Lisbon-Portugal). In addition to complementary training courses, he has participated in numerous National and International Congresses and Seminars, often as a lecturer. He has been teaching at several university institutions, with special emphasis on ISCTE - IUL – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where he teaches several courses in the Master’s Degree in Business and Labor Law, as well as in the Master’s in Labor Sciences and Labor Relations and in the Master in Human Resources Development Policies. She was an invited Lecturer in postgraduate courses at the Lisbon and Porto Law Faculties. She has supervised numerous dissertations, in addition to participating, as Arguente, in several Masters juries. She is the author of several essays and articles published in books and national and international magazines on Employment Law topics.

Mário Silveiro de Barros completed his PHD in Law, with a Doctoral thesis in Social Security Procedural Law at the Law Faculty of the University of La Coruña, Spain. Develops his academic and research work in ​​Social Security Law. In addition to 1 published book, he published 10 articles in scientific peer-reviewed journals and 10 individual chapters in collective books. He presented several on-site talks and communications at scientific events (conferences and seminars). He also has a professional activity as a lawyer in the area of ​​labour law, social security and commercial law. At ISCTE he is an Invited Professor, lecture in the courses of Social Security Law, Labor Procedural Law, Employment Law, Social Law and Corporate Law.