Our team works closely with the community and partner entities, including leading academic and scientific institutions, companies, and other national and international foundations.
Chief Executive Officer
Holds a degree in Management from the Higher Institute of Economics at the Technical University of Lisbon, and supplemented his education with an Executive MBA in Management and a postgraduate qualification in Marketing and Airline Management.
Holds a degree in Management from the Higher Institute of Economics at the Technical University of Lisbon, and supplemented his education with an Executive MBA in Management and a postgraduate qualification in Marketing and Airline Management. He has built a career spanning more than two decades in executive leadership roles, with a strong focus on the energy, aviation and business internationalisation sectors.
Throughout his career, he has held management and executive positions in organisations such as TAP Air Portugal, Air Luxor, AICEP Portugal Global and the EDP Group. At EDP, he was a member of the Executive Committee and, more recently, took over the leadership of EDP Brasil and EDP South America.
With extensive experience in strategy, business growth, mergers and acquisitions, and team leadership, he has focused his career on value creation, operational efficiency and the sustainable development.
Administrator
With a degree in Law from the Portuguese Catholic University and a Master’s degree in Legal and Economic Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, he has built a solid academic and professional career in the fields of law, university teaching and public life.
With a degree in Law from the Portuguese Catholic University and a Master’s degree in Legal and Economic Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, he has built a solid academic and professional career in the fields of law, university teaching and public life.
A lawyer and university lecturer, he served as a Member of the Assembly of the Republic and held the government post of Secretary of State for Education. Throughout his career, he has also held parliamentary leadership roles, notably as Chair of the CDS-PP Parliamentary Group.
He is the author of several works in the field of tax law and criminal law relating to information. At the António Pargana Foundation, he serves as executive director with a clear commitment to promoting knowledge, institutional cooperation and critical thinking.
Secretary-General
Graduate in Media Studies from the Portuguese Catholic University, with experience in institutional communications.
With a degree in Media Studies from the Portuguese Catholic University, she has built a solid and consistent career in the field of communication, with a special focus on institutional communication.
Professionally, she has gained experience in different contexts — public and private — which have given her a comprehensive and adaptable view of communication. She started and developed her career in leading institutions such as the Portuguese Parliament and the Centro Hospitalar do Oeste hospital. In the private sector, she joined LPM Comunicação, working with clients from various fields of activity. She has collaborated with other entities in the health sector, such as scientific societies, patient associations and the pharmaceutical industry, an experience that has consolidated her work in the field of health communication.