Economist specialising in public policy. She combines national, European and international experiences, including academia, applied research and hands-on executive and advisory roles at government level.
She is currently the Head of Sustainability at Banco de Portugal (since 2024) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. She served as Secretary of State for Energy and the Climate in the Portuguese government (2023-2024) and as Chief-Economist to the Prime Minister (2019-2022). She worked in the Research Department at Banco de Portugal (2018-2019), the Research Offices of the Portuguese Ministries of Finance and of the Economy (2015-2019), the European Central Bank (2008-2014) and Banco de Portugal (2004-2008).
She has a PhD in Economics from Nova SBE (2015), with a dissertation on the political economy of structural reforms. She was a visiting PhD student at the Toulouse School of Economics and the University of Liège in 2012/2013.