Vasco Moreira Rato is Chief Adviser at the office of the Lisbon City Councillor for Housing and Public Works Filipa Roseta. Associate Professor at ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa until December 2021, teaching sustainability in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism. His research interests are performance-based design, materials environmental impact and multi-criteria selection of materials for a sustainable architecture, being a researcher at ISTAR-IUL and VitruviusFabLab-IUL. He is an architect with a MSc. in Construction and a PhD in Civil Engineering; he has executive training in Business Sustainability Management from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He was Director of Sustainability at ISCTE-IUL (Mar.2017-Oct.2018).