Ph.D in Management and Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL. Executive Board Member at Iscte Executive Education. She is co-director of Business Financial and Control program at Iscte Executive Education. Coordinator of management control course and professor of financial accounting, at ISCTE. She was director of Executive Masters' program in Management Control and Performance and Business Financial and Control, at Iscte Executive Education. She was director of Master Program in Accounting at ISCTE-IUL Business School, for 6 years. She was sub director of the accounting department and sub director of Iscte Business School. She teaches and coaches corporate executives on the areas of management control since 1997, at Iscte Executive Education. Has already co-authored several books covering management control and accounting subjects. She publishes in reference scientific publications.

António Freitas Miguel is an Associate Professor of Finance with Habilitation at ISCTE Business School, where he also serves as the Director of the MSc in Finance program. He holds a PhD in Finance from ISCTE Business School, focusing on 'Essays on International Investments,' under the supervision of Miguel A. Ferreira. Additionally, he holds a Postdoc in Finance from Bayes Business School, London (formerly Cass Business School). He has held visiting positions at The University of Miami Business School, Florida, and The University of Sydney Business School. With extensive experience teaching Postgraduate, MBA, and Executive programs, he has been awarded multiple times for excellence in teaching. His research interests include mutual funds and international investments. He is a research member of the Business Research Unit - ISCTE-IUL Research Centre since 2007 and the Bayes Business School Centre for Asset Management since 2008. He has received a Post-Doctoral Scholarship and a Sabbatical Grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He has also obtained research grants from the same foundation for the projects  'Performance Persistence and The Smart Money Effect in Mutual Funds - International Evidence' and 'Mutual fund management, national culture, and market integration.'   His research has been published in top tier journals, including the Review of Finance and the Journal of Corporate Finance.

Invited Professor at ISCTE Executive Education in the Corporate Finance and Control post-graduation course. Coordinator of the following courses: Valuation and Mergers & Aquisitions (M&A). PhD candidate in management at ISCTE Business School, with focus on corporate finance and M&A. João started his professional career in strategic consulting, however almost his entire professional career was in investment banking, first at Millennium Investment Bank and then at AXIA Ventures Group. João has specialised in the areas of corporate finance and M&A, providing financial advisory services on important transactions in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique. João has an undergraduate and master’s degree in management, specialising in corporate strategy, from NOVA School of Business and Economics in Lisbon and INSPER (Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa) in São Paulo.

PhD in Accounting and MBA in Management, by ISCTE-IUL, Post-Graduate in Finance, by CEMAF-ISCTE and Graduate in Management, by UML. He is coordinator of Courses of Taxation, Business Taxation, Company Tax Management, Principles and Procedures of Tax Litigation and Taxation of Non-Residents. He is Director of the MsC in Management at ISCTE-IUL and Director of Post-Graduation in Tax Management at INDEG-ISCTE.