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The Board of Trustees is responsible for:
• Approval of the medium-term strategic plans and the action plan for the Rector’s four-year term;
• Approval of the institution’s general guidelines in the scientific and pedagogical domains;
• Approval of the institution’s general guidelines in the financial and asset-related domains;
• Approval of the annual activity plans and review of the Institute’s annual activity report;
• Approval of the proposed budget;
• Approval of the annual consolidated accounts, accompanied by the opinion of the statutory auditor.
She has held a PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Geneva since 1985. She is a researcher at CeiEF – Centre for Studies and Intervention in Education and Training, coordinator of the Observatory of Education and Training Policies, and lecturer in the Master’s and PhD programmes in Education at Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies.
She was a teaching assistant at the University of Geneva and a researcher in the field of Education at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She served as Secretary of State for Education (1995–2001) in the 13th and 14th Constitutional Governments and as a Member of Parliament (1995–2005), where she was responsible for the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Culture and Science.
She has extensive international involvement. After several years dedicated to teacher training at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, she retired in 2009. She led action-research projects and several studies on school exclusion and coordinated the first National Literacy Study.
She served as Vice-President (elected by the European region) of the General Council of the International Bureau of Education (IBE), UNESCO, Geneva (2001–2005), and was a member of the OECD CERI Committee (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation) from 1996 to 2002.
As a government representative, she worked with international agencies across Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Japan.
She has an extensive body of published work and has participated in hundreds of national and international colloquia, conferences, and congresses. She currently continues her work as an international consultant.
She holds a degree in Philosophy from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She taught Philosophy in secondary education between 1973 and 1981.
Between 1982 and 2007, she worked as a specialist at the Portuguese Book Institute/Ministry of Culture. In 1986, she joined the working group responsible for defining the principles of the national public reading policy, which led to the creation of the Municipal Libraries Network.
She served as Vice-President of the National Library and Book Institute until 1996. That same year, she participated in the interministerial working group that established the foundations, guiding principles, and lines of action of the School Libraries Network Programme.
From 1997 to 2014, she coordinated the School Libraries Network Office (RBE), leading the first national public policy programme for school libraries. The programme aimed to establish libraries in schools at all levels of education, conceived as multimedia centres providing users with the resources necessary for reading, access to and use of information in multiple formats, while playing a central role in the development of reading habits, multiple literacies, personal and social development, knowledge, and citizenship.
She also served as Deputy Commissioner of the National Reading Plan (PNL) from 2005 to 2013.
Between 2015 and 2017, she coordinated the research group responsible for the MILD Project (Manual de Instruções para a Literacia Digital – Manual for Digital Literacy), focused on promoting digital literacy among young people and sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
She is the author of books and articles published in specialist journals and regularly participates in national and international meetings and conferences, presenting work in the fields of reading and libraries.
She currently serves as Commissioner of the National Reading Plan 2027. She is also a board member of the Reading Volunteers Association, chairing its General Assembly Board.
On 10 June 2006, she was awarded the Commander of the Order of Public Instruction.
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