About
Renato Pereira, holding a postdoctoral degree in Management and two doctorates, serves as the Deputy Director for Internationalization and Research at the School of Management of Iscte-IUL.
He specializes in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, International Management, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
As a former resident-student of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the private foundation responsible for managing the international campus of the French capital, elected by a representative college of 5,000+ voters from 150+ nationalities.
He has worked in various companies in the information and communication technology cluster, including Outsystems, one of the first three Portuguese unicorns.
As an Administrator at Inteli - Innovation Intelligence - Innovation Center, he was part of the coordination structure of the Mobi.E consortium, responsible for the development of the world's first national network for electric vehicle charging, and the Board of Directors of SGORME - Electric Mobility Network Operations Management Company, S.A.
For thirteen consecutive years, he served as a Member of the Fiscal Council of Taguspark, S.A., the management company of one of the largest and most relevant science and technology parks in the country.
He served as Assistant to the Minister of Public Works, Transport, and Communications of the XVII and XVIII Constitutional Governments.
Currently, he directs the Master's program in International Management at the School of Management of Iscte. Previously, he directed the Executive Master's program in Innovation Management at Iscte Executive Education, as well as several curricular units of the Master's programs at the Iscte Business School, the Master's program in African Studies, and the Doctoral program in African Studies.
As an Associate Professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon, he coordinated the Doctorate in Business Economics, the Geoeconomics Seminar of the Doctorate in International Relations, the Master's program in Business Management, and the Bachelor's program in Management, in addition to several curricular units of the three university cycles.
His article "Entrepreneurship role on dynamic capabilities: A longitudinal study on Brazilian and Portuguese firms," co-authored, was nominated for the Best Paper Prize at the Special Conference of the Strategic Management Society in 2011.
His article "Resilient employees are creative employees, when the workplace forces them to be," co-authored, was awarded the Tudor Rickards and Susan Moger Creativity and Innovation Management Best Paper Award for the year 2019.
He has supervised 5 postdoctoral researchers, 18 doctoral students, and 179 master's students.
He has extensive international academic experience, having been a Visiting Professor and/or Researcher at universities in Angola, Brazil, Czech Republic, United Arab Emirates, Slovenia, Spain, France, Hungary, India, Mozambique, Peru, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Russia, Thailand, Uganda, and Uzbekistan.