Sérgio Lagoa is currently an Associated Professor with Habilitation at Iscte. He has taught economics courses at the undergraduate, master, and PhD levels throughout his career at this institution. From 2011 to 2016, he served as co-director of the undergraduate economics program. Since 2015, he has been the director of the Master in Monetary and Financial Economics. He was a member of the scientific commission of Dinâmia’Cet-Iul from 2020 to 2022, and has been member of the board of the Institute for Public and Social Policies (IPPS-Iscte) of Iscte since 2023. Sérgio Lagoa is an integrated researcher at Dinâmia’Cet-Iscte. His main research fields are in monetary and financial economics, with a focus on financial institutions, and also in the labour market.

ILÍDIO TOMÁS LOPES He was born on January 18, 1966, in the municipality of Abrantes. He is currently an Assistant Professor With Habilitation at “Iscte Instituto Universitário de Lisboa” and an associate member of the “Bru_iscte Business Research Unit” at the same institution. He is also a lecturer on the Executive Master's Degree in Business Management at Iscte_Executive Education. Lecturer on the postgraduate course in Economics and Regulation of Financial Institutions at IPPS_ISCTE. Currently: Director of “Audax_iscte”; Member of the Supervisory Board of Novartis Farma - Produtos Farmacêuticos, SA. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of “Associação Iscte Conhecimento e Inovação” and Member of the Supervisory Board of OROC - Ordem dos Revisores Oficiais de Contas. He is also an advisor to the Opinion Council of RTP - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, SA, on economic and financial matters. He was a Non-Executive Director, Member of the Audit Committee and Member of the Corporate Governance Committee of Banco BIC Português, S.A. (EuroBic). He holds a PhD in Business Management, specializing in Accounting (University of Coimbra, 2009), a Master's degree in Statistics and Information Management (ISEGI, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2001) and a degree in Business Organization and Management (ISEG, University of Lisbon, 1990). A lecturer in higher education since 1994, he was a lecturer at the School of Management and Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém (1997 to 2013), and in recent years has held the position of director of that institution. He was also a collaborative lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (2006 to 2011). He is currently responsible for several curricular units, including: Auditing; Financial Auditing; Financial Performance Assessment; Financial Accounting II; Banking Accounting. He has also held management positions in several multinational companies. Author of several scientific publications, member of various national and international scientific committees and reviewer of articles for scientific journals in the areas of Management and Accounting. Author of the books “KPIs - Key Performance Indicators - Monitoring Business Performance” (Editora D'Ideias, 2025), “Financial Accounting: Theory and Practice” (Editoria D'Ideias, 2022, 2025), “Management Control: An Integrated View of Business Performance” (Edições Almedina, 2019, 2020, 2025), “Accounting and Finance for Non-Financial Managers” (Edições Almedina, 2020, 2023), “Financial Auditing: From Internal Control to Independent External Control” (Edições Almedina, 2019, 2022), ‘Financial Accounting: Preparation of Financial Statements, their Disclosure and Analysis’ (Escolar Editora, 2013, 2017), ‘The Management of Intellectual Capital and Intangibles in the Knowledge Era’ (Escolar Editora, 2013) and ‘Financial Accounting: Solved and Proposed Exercises’ (Almedina Editores, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023). Co-author of the book “Das Sociedades:Aspectos Contabilísticos e Fiscais” (Escolar Editora, 2016), among others.He has published in several international journals, including: Measuring Business Excellence; International Journal of Business Excellence; Contaduría y Administración; International Journal of Disclosure and Governance; International Journal of Business Performance Management; Business: Theory and Practice.His main areas of interest are: 1. Financial Accounting; 2. Corporate Governance; 3. Auditing and Internal Control; 4. Financial Management and Performance; 5. Risk Assessment and Compliance.      

José Maria Pimentel holds a BSc degree in Economics from the University of Coimbra, a MSc degree in International Economics and Finance from Tilburg University, in the Netherlands, and an MBA from Católica Lisbon and Nova SBE («Lisbon MBA»). He is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at CIES-Iscte Center for Research and Studies in Sociology, with a project on Decentralization and Quality of Government. He is also a guest professor at the Institute of Public Policies (IPPS) at ISCTE, in Banking Regulation and Supervision, as well as in the  executive training of Católica-Lisbon, where he teaches Critical Thinking. He is also the author of the podcast 45 Graus and the book «Politics at 45 Graus» (Bertrand Editora), where he addresses the ideas of different political ideologies and the current challenges of populism and polarization. He is a “Digital Ambassador” for the European Commission.

Ricardo Barradas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Economy from School of Social Sciences at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Integrated Researcher at Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and the Territory (Dinâmia'CET) in Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. His main research interests are in the fields of political economy, post-keynesian economics, financialisation and other related areas. He is author of several scientific articles that are published in reputable international journals, such as Economic and Industrial Democracy, Economic and Labour Relations Review, Industrial Relations Journal, International Review of Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, New Political Economy, Review of Keynesian Economics, Review of Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, among others.