EDUCATION

1980-81 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

• Master in Public Administration (MPA), distinction (3.9/4). Concentration in "Business and Government".

1978-79 ARTHUR D. LITLLE Management Education Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

• Master of Science in Management (MScM), highest honors, distinction (4.8/5). Research on "Strategic Management and Investment Criteria".

1967-72 UNIVERSIDADE TÉCNICA DE LISBOA, I.S.C.E.F.

• Licenciado em Economia.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Currently

2001-2006 OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

• Economic advisor

Before

API CAPITAL ,SA

• President and Executive Director

2002 I.P.E. – Investimentos e Participações Empresariais, SA

• Consultant

2001-02 NAER-Novo Aeroporto, SA

• Executive Director

2001 I.P.E. - Tecnologias de Informação, SA

• Executive Director

1996- 00 I.P.E. - Investimentos e Participações Empresariais, SA.

• Board member and Executive Director.

IPE Capital - Sociedade de Capital de Risco, SA.

• Chairman.

1994-96 AMBELIS - Agência para a Modernização Económica de Lisboa, SA.

• Executive Director.

CONSULTANT

• Consultant to several companies and institutions in the areas of project evaluation, technology-based incubators and seed and venture capital operations

• Consultant to EBN (European Business Network, Brussels) and to DG I of the European Union in Chech Republic, Romania, Poland and Lithuania.

• Consultant to DG XVI of the European Union (Appraisal of Business and Innovation Centres). President of the jury of the "Euroleaders" program 1995/96,Brussels, May 1996.

1987-94 AITEC - Tecnologias de Informação, SA.

• President and Executive Director of the first incubator of technology-based enterprises in Portugal.

UNINOVA, Instituto de Novas Tecnologias.

• Director (1987-93) and Board member (1994).

1987-92 ICTM, Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia de Materiais.

• Director.

I.P.E., SA.

• Consultant to the Board.

1984-86 IPE, Investimentos e Participações Empresariais, SA.

• Permanent consultant (Strategic Development Office).

1982-86 Ministério da Indústria, L.N.E.T.I.

• Economic advisor.

1977-81 Ministério da Indústria - Gabinete de Estudos e Planeamento

• Director of Service. Coordination and Control of Programs (PISEE, PIDDAC).

1972-77 Ministério da Indústria, G.E.P.

• Economist, industrial planning, sectoral and regional studies

1975 Ministério da Indústria e Tecnologia

• Chief of Cabinet of the Minister.

TEACHING

1983-01 Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Instituto Superior de Economia

• Professor auxiliar convidado. Responsible for "Avaliação de Projectos", Mestrado ISEG/IST/ISA (1989-99), Mestrado de Economia (1983-89), Licenciatura em Gestão (1979-04); "Marketing" and "Complementos de Marketing", MBA (1995-01).

1980-83 Management Education Institute (Cambridge, Mass. EUA)

• Invited Professor, "Strategies for Economic Development", Master of Science in Management Program.

1973-79 I.S.C.T.E., Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa

• Lecturer, "Economia Industrial", "Avaliação de Projectos".

PROFESSIONAL STAGES

1979 WORLD BANK (Washington D.C.), Industrial Projects Department (3 months).

1972 MINISTÈRE DES FINANCES (Paris), Direction de la Prévision (6 weeks).

MISSIONS ABROAD

Member of government delegations to

• U.N. Economic Comission for Europe, "Senior Economic Advisors", 1974 session, Genève.

• O.C.D.E., "Industry Commitee", "Regional Policies Commitee".

• Missions of industrial cooperation to Checoslovaquia, Poland, D.D.R., Hungary, U.S.S.R. and Spain.

• Missions to Japan, Korea, Brasil and USA.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• President of the “Environment” Committee of CEEP (Brussels)

• Participation in many courses, conferences and seminars, at home and abroad, on political economy, development, investiment analysis, technological innovation, venture capital, incubation, etc.. Among some of the more recent interventions as speaker and/or moderator, are:

- 16th Conference of the National Business Incubation Association (Toronto, Ontario, 2002).

- International Conference on Economic Development (Belfast, 1999).

- Financing Innovative SME's in the European Union (DG XVI, EVCA, Brussels)