HISTORY: Duarte studied in Madrid and Lisbon, where he obtained a degree in telecommunications. He then joined the research staff of the Portuguese Nuclear Authority (1970). In 1977 he moved to Porto, where he worked as a systems analyst for the Portuguese Electricity Holding (EDP) and other companies. In 1986, Duarte was appointed as a lecturer at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL). A year later, he was sent to the UK (University of East Anglia) as a research student and obtained his PhD in 1991. In 1995, he was seconded to the University of Macau (China), where he remained until 2001. He then worked at the University of Algarve in Faro until 2013 and also taught at the ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon.

PRESENTLY, Duarte is a researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon, having retired from the Algarve. He is a visiting professor at universities in Macau. At the undergraduate level, Duarte teaches business courses in Accounting and IS. At the postgraduate level, Duarte teaches interdisciplinary subjects related to accounting and finance that require mathematics, statistics and econometrics, such as business intelligence and financial modelling. In addition to teaching, Duarte also supervises research in areas such as bank capital requirements under the Basel Accords.  Read more at https://home.iscte-iul.pt/~dmt/