CV Summary

Maria José Sousa (PhD in Management, with Aggregation in Management and Public Management), is a lecturer and researcher at ISCTE/University Institute of Lisbon. She was Pro-Rector  between March 2022 and January 2024, and a member of the scientific committee of the PhD "in Law and Economics" (Cycle XXXIX), Università degli Studi del Molise. Is a member of the Advisory Board of Banco Português de Fomento for Public Policies.  She took a postdoctoral position from 2016-2018, researching the area of digital education, with several publications in journals with a high impact factor (Journal of Business Research, Journal of Grid Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, and others). She worked as an expert in a European Commission project for the creation of a new category of digital skills to be integrated into the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS). She was also a member of the Coordinating Committee of the PhD in Management at the European University, a Senior Researcher at the GEE (Strategy and Studies Office) of the Ministry of Economy Portuguese, responsible for Innovation, Research and Entrepreneurship Policies, and Knowledge and Skills Manager at AMA, IP, Agency for Administrative Modernization (Ministry of the Presidency and the Council of Ministers) and a Project Manager at the Ministry of Labor and Employment, responsible for Innovation Projects and Qualification Assessment and Development Projects. Her research interests are currently in the public policies of Innovation and Research. She is the co-author of more than 180 scientific articles and book chapters (European Planning Studies, Information Systems Frontiers, Systems Research, and Behavioral Science, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, and others). She is guest editor of more than 10 special editions of Elsevier and Springer. She was President of ISO/TC 260 – Human Resources Management, representing Portugal in ISO - International Organization for Standardization. She has coordinated several European innovation projects (funded by programs such as Erasmus+, Horizon Europe and ICMPD) and is also an External Expert of COST Association - European Cooperation in Science and Technology.

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science
Public Policies - United Kingdom - London
Advanced Studies Certificate Studies in Public Policies Innovations 2023 - 2023
Universidade de Aveiro
Departamento de Economia Gestao e Engenharia Industrial - Portugal - Aveiro
Aggregation Gestão/Gestão e Administração Pública 2021 - 2021
Universidade de Coimbra
Departamento de Engenharia Informática - Portugal - Coimbra
Post-Doc Digital Learning 2016 - 2018
Universidade de Aveiro
Departamento de Economia Gestão e Engenharia Industrial - Portugal - Aveiro
PhD Gestão Industrial 2004 - 2009
ISCTE
Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Portugal - Lisboa
M.Sc. Políticas de Desenvolvimento dos Recursos Humanos 1996 - 1999
Universidade Europeia
Licenciate Gestão de Recursos Humanos e Psicologia do Trabalho 1990 - 1995
Research Interests
Public Policies of Innovation and Digitalization
Digital Education
Information Science and Data Science
Other Engineering and Technology Sciences Engineering and Technology
Economics and Business Social Sciences
Educational Sciences Social Sciences
Other Social Sciences Social Sciences