Plenary Lecture

Local: Auditorium Prof. Dr. José Marques Dos Santos

Date: Tuesday, July 01^st, 2025 | 16h10-17h00

Chair: António de Sousa Pereira, Rector, University of Porto

Lecturer: Margarida Isabel Mano Tavares Simões Lopes, Vice-Rector, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Biography

Margarida Mano with a PhD in Management from the University of Southampton, she is currently Vice-Rector for Continuous Improvement and Development at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and President of the Board of TI-Portugal, the Transparency and Integrity Association. She is also Chairwoman of the General Assembly of FORGES (https://aforges.org/) and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Order of Engineers. Minister of Education and Science in the XX Government of the Republic (2015) and Member of the Portuguese Parliament, in the XIII Legislature, with responsibilities in the areas of Education, Higher Education, Science, Culture, Communication, Youth and Sport, and represented the Portuguese Parliament in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean, where she chaired the Committee on Economy, Finance, Social Affairs and Education. She has been Vice-Rector of the Portuguese Catholic University since 2020. Until 2015 has held management positions in Banking and at the University of Coimbra as Vice-Rector, Pro-Rector and Administrator. Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra since 1986 in the areas of Economics and Management. Strategic Management (prospective analysis, scenario), Change Management, Quality and Governance Models stand out as areas of scientific interest.