Rúben S. Barros is an Assistant Professor of Management Accounting and Control at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and associated researcher at the Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL). His current research interests are related to management accounting and control. Particularly, he has investigated management control systems design and use with a focus on innovation, and performance measurement and management in public organizations. He has published in reputable international peer-reviewed journals like Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, Journal of Management Control, and Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management.

Associate Professor - with a Habilitation in Information Science and Technology - in the Department of Information Science and Technology (DCTI-ISTA). Degree in Information Systems and Computer Engineering (5 years course). MD and Ph.D. in Social Psychology. Researcher at Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture Research Center (ISTAR-IUL). Involved in projects related to applied computing, gamification, technology acceptance, cybercultures, information society, information systems, technologies and education, adolescence, childhood, music, education and learning, suicide prevention, virtual communities, gaming, and social networks. Member of some scientific Associations, such as the Centre for Studies in Suicide and the Portuguese Society of Suicidology. In short, he focuses his work on data science and applied computing in the study of human behaviour in different contexts. He is also the author of many scientific papers, book chapters, and some books, namely, 'Jogos Sérios - A Arte de Gamificar' (Serious Games - The Art of Gamification), ‘O Desafio da Morte’ (The Challenge of Death), Illusions in the Age of Emotions’, or 'O Desafio da Vida' (The Challenge of Life). He has participated in several scientific events and other actions toward the community. He has also participated in radio programs, has always enjoyed playing sports, and advocates a sustainable world and a healthy life, being vegetarian.

Alexandra Ferreira-Lopes is an Associate Professor at ISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE - IUL), at the ISCTE Business School (IBS) and she is affiliated with the Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL) of ISCTE - IUL. She earned her PhD in Economics from the Lisbon School of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon (ISEG - UL, Lisbon, Portugal). She is the author of articles about Open Macroeconomics, Business Cycles, Endogenous Growth Theory, and Empirical Economics, published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Ecological Economics, Economic Modelling, Open Economies Review, Oxford Economic Papers, Public Finance Review, Regional Studies, and Tourism Management. She was the sub-director of BRU-IUL between February 2014 and August 2016 and the director of the Msc. in Economics between July 2019 and June 2021.

Álvaro Rosa is a professor of Management. His areas of research and study are Strategy, Governance and Cross-Cultural Management. In addition, he is also a researcher and teacher of Chinese Studies, namely Contemporary China. Currently, he is the Director of Master Degree in Chinese Studies, a joint program of University of Aveiro and ISCTE - IUL. Professionally, he is a coach and trainer in negotiation techniques.

Ana Conceição (publication name, Conceição, A.) is an Assistant Professor of Management Accounting and Control at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon, Portugal). She holds a PhD from ISCTE-IUL. Prior to joining ISCTE-IUL she was Professor at Escola Naval where she taught Accounting, Auditing and Financial Management.

Ana Isabel Lopes, Ph.D., is a full time Associate Professor (with habilitation) of the Accounting Department at Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) and integrated member of the researcher center BRU/UNIDE, in Lisbon (Portugal). She has experience in teaching in doctoral and master programs, executive education, and undergraduate programs, engaging in courses related with financial accounting and business reporting, management control in multinationals, and consolidated financial statements. Currently, she is Director of the MSc program in Accounting and she is the Executive Director of the post-graduation in Finance and Accounting Applied. She has an extensive experience in coordinating programs in high education institutions. She also supervises doctoral and master students' dissertations. She is active in presenting conference papers in national and international congresses (by submission or invitation). Her research interests cover international financial accounting and reporting, integrated and sustainability reporting, business combinations, and corporate governance. Ana Isabel has published in leading academic journals such as 'Australian Journal of Management', 'European Business Review', 'Accounting Education', 'Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting', 'Journal of Economics and Business', and 'Meditari Accountancy Research'.

Andrea Fontes is an invited teacher, a psychologist, a coach and a consultant in Human Resources. She holds two degrees, respectively in the areas of Organization and Business management and Psychology, a Master in Psychology, Counseling and Psychotherapy and a Phd in Organizational Psychology in ISCTE. She has  20 years experience in multinational companies practice field, in several areas, from Marketing&Sales to Consumer Research and Human Resources. Publications in scientific journals and book chapters have been mainly within the coaching topic. Her researches were also presented in several national and international conferences. Research interests revolve around HR practices for development and positive interventions at the workplace.  

Felipa de Mello-Sampayo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at ISCTE-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and integrated researcher in BRU-IUL. The PhD Thesis in Economics from University of Birmingham in 2001 was publish at The British Library. Among her several peer review publications, all published after the PhD and indexed in Scopus and Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge (WoS), there are 14 manuscripts without coauthors. Her research focus in microeconomics models and their empirical application in several fields of social science.  Coordinator of the project PTDC/EGE-ECO/104157/2008, entitled "Health and Economic Growth" funded by the Portuguese Government under Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). Coeditor of special issues entitled “Spatial Econometrics Analysis of Sustainability” of Sustainability  and "Heathcare in China" of the Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health.

  Education       Academic part of Doctorate Program in Corporate Finance       Universidade Complutense de Madrid e Universidade Autónoma de Madrid, Spain       from October 2008 to July 2010. Final Grade Average: 7.5 points in 10       MBA specialized in Finance       UCP - Católica-Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal       from September 1996 to July 1998. Final Grade Average: 15 points in 20       Degree in Management (electives in Finance)       ISCTE-IUL – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal       from October 1986 to July 1991. Final Grade Average: 16 points in 20           Work experience       Since 2001, ISCTE – IUL, Lisbon. Invited Lecturer of Corporate Finance and Markets, in undergraduate, master and post-graduate degrees, namely in courses of Project Evaluation, Capital Budgeting, Financial Analysis, Return and Solvency, Financial Calculation, Capital Markets, Bonds and Shares, Capital Structure and Funding, Finance in Marketing (mostly held in English and with a very strong component of case studying). Co-author in two finance books. Communication, writing and motivating skills and flexibility.       Since 2009, Analyst, as freelancer, of new business projects of Portuguese SMEs in several industries. Capital Budgeting, Project Evaluation. Investment decision maker and financial consultant. Critical thinking skills.       Investor and Manager of own portfolio of financial and real estate assets.       From 2002 to 2009, Founder and managing director of a small business in the tourism and events industry, managing a team of 10 employees. Strong customer relations. Business sold in successful performance momentum. Interpersonal, planning and organizational skills.       From 1991 to 2001, Banco BCP / Banco Mello / Fungest (currently Banco BPI) – Portuguese Investment Banks, Lisbon. Portfolio Manager of Mutual Funds and Pension Funds. Equity analysis, Fixed income analysis, Data analysis, Investment decision, Trading operations, Performance evaluation, Financial Marketing. Analytical, quantitative and forecast skills.          

ILÍDIO TOMÁS LOPES He was born on January 18, 1966, in the municipality of Abrantes. He is currently an Assistant Professor With Habilitation at “Iscte Instituto Universitário de Lisboa” and an associate member of the “Bru_iscte Business Research Unit” at the same institution. He is also a lecturer on the Executive Master's Degree in Business Management at Iscte_Executive Education. Lecturer on the postgraduate course in Economics and Regulation of Financial Institutions at IPPS_ISCTE. Currently: Director of “Audax_iscte”; Member of the Supervisory Board of Novartis Farma - Produtos Farmacêuticos, SA. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of “Associação Iscte Conhecimento e Inovação” and Member of the Supervisory Board of OROC - Ordem dos Revisores Oficiais de Contas. He is also an advisor to the Opinion Council of RTP - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, SA, on economic and financial matters. He was a Non-Executive Director, Member of the Audit Committee and Member of the Corporate Governance Committee of Banco BIC Português, S.A. (EuroBic). He holds a PhD in Business Management, specializing in Accounting (University of Coimbra, 2009), a Master's degree in Statistics and Information Management (ISEGI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2001) and a degree in Business Organization and Management (ISEG, University of Lisbon, 1990). A lecturer in higher education since 1994, he was a lecturer at the School of Management and Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém (1997 to 2013), and in recent years has held the position of director of that institution. He was also a collaborative lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (2006 to 2011). He is currently responsible for several curricular units, including: Auditing; Financial Auditing; Financial Performance Assessment; Financial Accounting II; Banking Accounting. He has also held management positions in several multinational companies. Author of several scientific publications, member of various national and international scientific committees and reviewer of articles for scientific journals in the areas of Management and Accounting. Author of the books “KPIs - Key Performance Indicators - Monitoring Business Performance” (Editora D'Ideias, 2025), “Financial Accounting: Theory and Practice” (Editoria D'Ideias, 2022, 2025), “Management Control: An Integrated View of Business Performance” (Edições Almedina, 2019, 2020, 2025), “Accounting and Finance for Non-Financial Managers” (Edições Almedina, 2020, 2023), “Financial Auditing: From Internal Control to Independent External Control” (Edições Almedina, 2019, 2022), ‘Financial Accounting: Preparation of Financial Statements, their Disclosure and Analysis’ (Escolar Editora, 2013, 2017), ‘The Management of Intellectual Capital and Intangibles in the Knowledge Era’ (Escolar Editora, 2013) and ‘Financial Accounting: Solved and Proposed Exercises’ (Almedina Editores, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023). Co-author of the book “Das Sociedades:Aspectos Contabilísticos e Fiscais” (Escolar Editora, 2016), among others.He has published in several international journals, including: Measuring Business Excellence; International Journal of Business Excellence; Contaduría y Administración; International Journal of Disclosure and Governance; International Journal of Business Performance Management; Business: Theory and Practice.His main areas of interest are: 1. Financial Accounting; 2. Corporate Governance; 3. Auditing and Internal Control; 4. Financial Management and Performance; 5. Risk Assessment and Compliance.      

João Madeira is an Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL. He obtained his PhD in 2008 at Boston University and worked afterwards at the University of Exeter and the University of York. He is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on the sources of business cycle fluctuations and in particular the role played by labour market rigidities. He currently works on understanding better inflation expectations and how disagreement in monetary policy committees arises and impacts the economy.

João Guerreiro, PhD Marketing (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal), Associate Professor of Marketing with Habilitation and integrated researcher at BRU-IUL. Research interests focused in the area of ​​Consumer Behavior and Relationship Marketing, namely in the implications of technologies (Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, IoT) for Marketing, with published articles in several scientific journals such as Tourism Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Business Ethics among others. Director of the Master in Marketing at ISCTE-IUL between 2017 and 202. Professional experience as a senior consultant in Business Intelligence projects.

Jonas Oliveira holds a PhD in Accounting from the School of Economics and Management, University of Minho, Portugal. He is an Associate Professor of Accounting at ISCTE-IUL Business School, Lisbon. He has previously worked at the University of Aveiro as Adjunct Professor of Accounting. His research interests are corporate risk reporting, enterprise risk management, corporate governance mechanisms, impression management strategies used in corporate reporting, sustainability and integrated reporting. He publishes academic articles regularly in some internationally well-recognized journals such as the Managerial Auditing Journal, Meditari Accountancy Research, Australian Accounting Review, Corporate Communications: an International Journal, European Business Review, and Journal of Risk. 

J. Rocha is a theoretical physicist with broad interests spanning gravitation, high-energy physics and mathematical physics. His research focuses on the study of black holes and other solutions of General Relativity, and extensions thereof. He obtained a PhD degree in Physics from University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2008, under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Polchinski. He earned his pre-Bologna bachelor degree in Technological Physics Engineering, in 2002, from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon. He is currently an Assistant Professor of the Department of Mathematics at ISCTE-IUL. Between 2015 and 2019 he worked as a research post-doc fellow at Universitat de Barcelona.   In total, J. Rocha has published 30+ original articles in top international peer-reviewed journals. He has vast experience in oral presentations (20+ invited seminars at various institutes in the USA, UK, Belgium, Japan, Brazil, Spain and Portugal; 30+ oral communications at international conferences). He regularly engages in outreach activities.   J. Rocha organized 6 scientific meetings, among which four were international conferences/workshops. He supervised 1 Master thesis, and co-supervised one PhD student and another Master student. He was a member of the examination committee of 2 PhD students and 4 Master students. He is the recipient of 5 prizes and awards, including a Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellowship. He is a member of Sociedade Portuguesa de Relatividade e Gravitação.

José Miguel Rodrigues is a statutory auditor and partner in Azevedo Rodrigues, Batalha, Costa e Associados, SROC. Activities developed include statutory audit activities in over 50 companies, due diligences and company evaluation. He is also a consultant of Prótotipo, Sistemas de Informação, S.A. where he is responsible for the design team of GERIR® (ERP) e DEFIR® (financial reporting software). Consultant of CBR - Consultoria e Investimentos for projects in the tax and management control systems areas. He was also non-executive administrator of Parpública – Participações Públicas (SGPS), S.A. from 2020 to 2024.    He teaches in several training actions of OROC (Ordem dos Revisores Oficiais de Contas) where he was a jury member of the Order's Admission Exam from 2015 to 2021. Lectures Corporate Accounting Project and Applied Management Control Systems in ISCTE and several other subjects such as financial and managerial accounting in other universities, companies and other entities in Portugal, Angola,Cape Verde and Mozambique. Author of the compilation "Sistema de Normalização Contabiística" and co-author of "As novas demonstrações financeiras - de acordo com as normas internacionais de contabilidade".

Assistant Professor of Management in the Marketing, Operations, and General Management Department at ISCTE Business School. Holds a BA and MA in Economics, an MSc in Finance, and a PhD in Management with specialization in strategy and entrepreneurship. He has supervised theses in various business areas, including art markets. His research interests include entrepreneurship and business models, art market studies, and management of arts organizations and currently lectures on cultural management and cultural entrepreneurship. In addition to academic activities, he has 20 years' experience in banking and financial markets. He is a CFA Charteholder and member of CFA Society Portugal and TIAMSA.       

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.

Luís Clemente-Casinhas holds a BSc degree in Management from Nova School of Business and Economics. He completed both his Master’s and PhD in Economics at ISCTE-IUL, funded by a scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He began his teaching career in 2019 as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Economics at ISCTE-IUL. In 2023, he became an Assistant Professor (Visiting), teaching in both the Department of Economics and the Department of Political Economy. That same year, he also joined the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa as an Assistant Professor (Visiting), and gained additional teaching experience at ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management. Since 2025, he has been an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Department of Economics at ISCTE-IUL. He is a certified Microsoft Office Excel Specialist (2013) and has been awarded the Nova Excelência Prize (2014) and the IBS TOP Master Award (2018). His research focuses on housing markets and inequality, and he is part of an international project led by the London School of Economics.

MARIA HELENA PESTANA has been a professor at ISCTE since 1982. She holds a PhD in Quantitative Management Methods in the area of Market Research. She is a researcher in Statistics, Econometrics, and Data Analysis applied in the fields of Demography, Economics, Finance, Gerontology, Management, Psychology, Health, Sociology, and Tourism. She is the author of books and scientific articles in national and foreign publications. She is a researcher at Unifai-Universidade do Porto and researcher-collaborator at Dinamia_ISCTE and CEPCEP_UCP. CINTESIS, Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde,Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (FMUP), www.cintesis.eu. Helena received a certificate from the PSE company that represents in Portugal the IBM-SPSS for having pioneered in Portugal the first books of statistics and data analysis complemented with SPSS and its applications (1998, 2005, 2009, 2014). In the last 20 years, research interest has been directed essentially towards the application of multivariate analysis (quantitative/qualitative), scientometrics/bibliometrics, programming, big data, social networks, and the like with applications in the field of health and social sciences.

Mónica Mendes Ferreira is a Visiting Assistant Professor at ISCTE Business School and a researcher at BRU. She works in the social sciences area(s), emphasising Economics and Management. Her academic background is interdisciplinary, combining a degree in Marketing and Communication, a Postgraduate Diploma in Organisational Behaviour and Management, and a PhD in Management with a specialisation in Marketing and a focus on Human-Artificial Intelligence Engagement. She has published scientific articles in top journals as a co-author, two book chapters, and proceedings from conferences. Have extensive teaching experience, from a bachelor's in Marketing and Management to different master's and post-degree and Executive Education. At a professional level, over 20 years of experience in various sectors such as FMCG, Mass Media, Advertising Agencies, Associations, and Consulting. Her current research interests include consumer behaviour, digital marketing, social media, branding, communication, tourism marketing and the connections between marketing and VR, AR and AI.

PhD in Management, Master in Business Sciences, Degree in Management by Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte) and Bachelor of Accounting at ISCAC Coimbra Business School. Assistant Professor at ISCTE, where he teaches in Undergraduate, Masters and Executives Masters and has coordinated various courses. Executive Director of the Executive Master in Corporate Reporting of INDEG/ISCTE. Received a teaching award (2014). Was member of the Pedagogical Committee (1st cycle degree) and year coordinator in 1st cycle degree. Was CEO of Overgest/ISCTE - Management and Finance Specialization Center and Director of several Executive Masters, Postgraduate Programs, Specialization Courses and Programs for Executives. Was Senior Partner of Paradigma Consulting, SA, Senior Consultant at SE.MAR.TE Consulting, Consulting Supervisor at BDO International, Deputy Director Financial MAP-Plastics (current Map-Key Plastics, SA) and Chartered Accountant of several companies. Was member of the Students' Union Board and a member of Scientific Council (representing the students) of ISCA Coimbra Business School. He is co-author of books in the accounting field, articles and communications to scientific conferences.

Ricardo Dias, Guest Assistant at ISCTE, is a PhD student in Information Sciences and Technologies. His main research interests include Computer Systems, New Technologies and Teaching Methods and Models adapted to the new school reality. He has published in areas related to Education (e.g., Journal of Educational & Social Research, 4th International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences, 3rd International Conference on Human and Social Sciences). Ricardo has a Degree in Basic Education Teachers, 2nd Cycle variant (ISCE), a Master's in Pedagogical Supervision (ISEC) and is in the second year of his PhD in Information Sciences and Technologies (ISCTE-IUL). He is a Teacher at the José Afonso School Group, in Loures and Municipal Education Councilor, in the same municipality.