José Paulo Esperança is the Dean of ISCTE Business School. He is full professor of Finance and a former Pro-Rector for International Relations and Entrepreneurship at ISCTE-IUL, Portugal. He is the Chairman of AUDAX-ISCTE (www.audax.iscte.pt), an associated center focused on entrepreneurship and family business. He also co-founded Building Global Innovators (BGI), a technology transfer accelerator in partnership with MIT Portugal. He got a PhD in economics from the European University Institute, Florence on "The Investment Decision by Service Multinationals" and has published in journals such as Applied Financial Economics, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Management Research, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Corporate Governance and Management International Review. His research interests include entrepreneurship and small business financing, corporate governance and the impact of language commonality in international business. He is the Portuguese Delegate for the SME Instrument of the Horizon's 2020 Program of the European Commission and a member of the board of CPADA, the Portuguese Federation of Environmental Associations.

Universidade/Instituição	Tipo	Curso	Período
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa	Agregação	Apresentação de Provas Públicas de Agregação	2003
Instituto Universitário Europeu (Florença)	Doutoramento	Economia	1993
ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Superior Ciências Trabalho e da Empresa	Licenciatura	Organização e Gestão de Empresas	1980

Corporate Governance

Small Business Financing

International Business