CV Summary

Holding two Habilitation titles and two PhD degrees, Renato Pereira is Associate Dean for Internationalization and Research at Iscte Business School.

Specialized in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, International Business Management, and in Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Former resident-student at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the private foundation in charge of managing the international campus of the French capital city, elected by a college representing 5,000+ voters from 150+ nationalities.

He has worked for different companies of the ICT cluster, including Outsystems, one of the initial Portuguese unicorns.

As Director of Inteli - Innovation Center, he has integrated the coordination structure of the Mobi.E consortium, responsible for the development of the 1st nation-wide network in the world for electric vehicle charging, and the board of directors of SGORME, the network operations management company.

For thirteen consecutive years, he was member of the Supervisory Board of Taguspark, the managing company of one of the biggest and most relevant science and technology facilities in Portugal.

He was Advisor to the Minister of Public Works, Transportation and Communications of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Portuguese Constitutional Governments.

Currently directs the Master's in International Management of iscte Business School; previously has directed the Executive Master in Innovation Management at Iscte Executive Education and several master-level and doctoral-level subjects at both Iscte Business School and School of Sociology and Public Policy.

As Associate Professor of Autonomous University of Lisbon, he directed: the PhD program in Business Economics, the Geoeconomics Seminar of the PhD program in International Relations, the MSc program in Business Management, and the BSc program in Management, as well as several subjects from all three levels.

He has been the recipient of different research prizes and other distinctions related with his publications awarded by prestigious members of the scientific community.

He has supervised 5 post-docs, 19 doctorates and 198 masters.

He has a long and extensive international academic experience, having taken visiting positions in universities from Angola, Brazil, China, Czechia, Finland, France, Hungary, India, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan.

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
Université Paris Est
France - Paris
Aggregation Scientific Coordination Habilitation (HDR) in Management Sciences 2023
ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Universitario de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
Aggregation Habilitation in Management 2023
ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Universitario de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
PhD African Studies 2023
ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
Advanced Studies African Studies 2018
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
United States of America - Cambridge, MA
Post-graduation Executive Program in Corporate Strategy 2005
Université Paris Dauphine
France - Paris
PhD Management Sciences 2003
ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Superior Ciências Trabalho e da Empresa
Portugal - Lisboa
M.Sc. Business Sciences 1998
IPE - Instituto Militar dos Pupilos do Exército
Portugal - Lisboa
Bachelor of Science Accounting and Administration 1994
Research Interests
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
Creativity
Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory
Business Model Innovation
Emerging Technologies in Businesses
Entrepreneurial Finance
International Management
Africa
Emerging Markets
Dynamic Capabilities
Dynamic Flexibility
Strategic Flexibility
Electric Mobility
India
International Business
Intercultural Management
Economics and Business Social Sciences
Other Social Sciences Social Sciences