Economy

Professor of Finance at Imperial College London. While she is a financial specialist with a PhD from the London School of Economics, she has a lifelong passion for humour. She coordinated the panel «Humour and Finance» at the annual conference of the European Financial Association and has published several articles on this topic. Her work regularly appears in academic journals and is also referenced in top-tier media outlets such as the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Forbes and NPR.

Last update: february 2026

Full Professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE) and holder of the BPI | "la Caixa" Foundation Chair in Responsible Finance.

He is also President of the Scientific Council and Dean of Faculty and Research at Nova SBE. He is a research associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He has a PhD in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master’s degree in Economics from Nova University Lisbon and a Bachelor’s degree in Management from ISCTE-IUL.

His research areas are corporate finance, corporate governance and asset management and his work has been published in international academic journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance and Review of Financial Studies. He has received several grants and research awards from international and national organisations including the European Research Council (ERC) and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He currently teaches corporate finance in undergraduate programmes. He also has extensive experience as a trainer in executive training programmes, legal expert and consultant to companies, banks and international government agencies.

Last updated: January 2023

He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Kent and has worked at the European Central Bank and Banco de Portugal. He was a professor at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management and assistant professor at Instituto Superior Técnico.

Last updated: January 2024

She is a coordinating economist in the Bank of Portugal’s Economics and Research Department, where she has worked since 2001, and is a guest lecturer at Católica Lisbon. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research interests include empirical studies on banking and corporate finance and monetary policy, and she has been published in the Review of Finance, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the Journal of Banking and Finance, among others.

Last updated: April 2021