Full Professor of Finance at ISCTE/IUL. He was the Dean of ISCTE Business School and President of INDEG Executive Education. He has also been a non-executive director in several boards of large listed companies such as CIMPOR, CTT and EDP. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Board of EDP Renewables.  He has been a consultant in the areas of risk management, corporate governance and executive compensation. He was also President of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance. He is a regular contributor to the media and he is author of several books in the area of finance.

Diana E. Aldea Mendes is an associate professor at Department of Quantitative Methods for Management and Economics, ISCTE-IUL Lisbon, Portugal. She is a mathematician and applied scientist with broad experience in nonlinear dynamics (stochastic and deterministic), time series analysis, data science, ML and deep learning, computational economics and finance, control and synchronization. She is a researcher at BRU-IUL (Business Research Unit - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) and has authored or co-authored more than 40 technical papers and reports.

Felipa de Mello-Sampayo é Professora auxiliar no Departmento de Economica do ISCTE-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa e investigadora integrada no BRU-IUL. A tese de doutoramento em Economia da Universidade da Birmingham em 2001 foi publicada na The British Library. Entre vários artigos em revistas que à data da publicação estavam indexados na base de dados Scopus e na base de dados Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge (WoS), destacam-se 13 artigos sem coautores. A sua investigação centra-se em modelos microeconómicos e a correspondente aplicação empírica em várias áreas da ciência social. Coordenadora do projeto de investigação o PTDC/EGE-ECO/104157/2008, "Health and Economic Growth" financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). Coeditora de números especiais da revista Sustainability, intitulado“Spatial Econometrics Analysis of Sustainability”  e da revista Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health intitulado "Heathcare in China".