Ana Paula Silva is Professor of Epistemology of the Social Sciences of Education, Dialogue and Democracy, and Educational Leadership, Equity and Learning at Universidade Lusófona. Her academic work articulates epistemology, governance and educational justice, focusing on leadership, equity and institutional responsibility in education systems. She began her career as a secondary school teacher (1987–2014) and entered higher education in 2009, teaching at ESE Almeida Garrett (2009–2014), where she directed the Master’s programmes in School Administration and in Pedagogical Supervision and Training of Trainers. In 1998, she became a teacher trainer certified by the Portuguese Ministry of Education in educational innovation, project methodology and action research, later recognised in the fields of learning and institutional assessment. She is currently an expert in the Portuguese external school evaluation process. Alongside her academic career, she served as Deputy Director General and Pedagogical Director of Faculdade Conhecimento e Ciência (Belém, Pará, Brazil) (2017–2022). She is also co-founder of Almada Mundo – International Association of Education, Training and Innovation (Portugal), contributing to initiatives addressing school dropout, alternative educational pathways and Erasmus+ projects. Before joining the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development (CeiED), she was a researcher at CIUHCT (Inter-University Centre for the History of Sciences and Technology). She was awarded International Scholar by the Society for the History of Technology (USA) in 2002 and was a visiting scholar at Imperial College London (2011–2012). At CeiED, she was co-responsible for the European projects EPNoSL (2011–2015) and SLT4AA (2014–2016), and principal investigator of PedPack (2018–2020) and STAIRS (2019–2022), contributing to the development of analytical frameworks for leadership, inclusion and system-level reform. She is a member of the Board of the ATLAS – Association of Teacher Leadership and Scholarship, based at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (USA). Her publications span both History of Science and Technology and Educational Sciences, in Portuguese and English. She serves as reviewer for several international journals, including International Journal of Leadership in Education and The Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied.