Ana Brochado is an economist and professor of management at the ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa - Lisbon University Institute and a researcher at DINAMIA’CET-Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies.  She has joined as invited professor ISCTE’ partner business schools, namely the Pforzheim University (Germany), the Strasbourg Business School (France), the Montpelier Business School (France) the Kyungpook National University (South Korea) and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China).   She is the President of the 'Direção Regional do Centro e Alentejo' - Ordem dos Economistas. She served as the Vice Dean for administrative affairs and Vice Dean for faculty for five years (ISCTE Business School) and coordinated the PhD in Tourism Management. She joined the General Council of ISCTE. She coordinated and taught several courses (bachelor, master, Ph.D., executive education) including econometrics, quantitative methods applied to competition and regulation, consumer behavior, and market research and research methods. She worked for more than one decade as Senior Economist for the Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC) and the Securities Commission (CMVM). She joined the Strategic Board of Compete2020 as an expert in policy evaluation methods. She is an external expert on the European Commission. She has a Bachelor of Science in Economics, a Master of Science in Quantitative Methods, a PhD in Management, and Habilitation in Marketing.  Her main research interests are economics and management. She has authored or co-authored over 100 publications in top international journals in these fields, wrote over 40 book chapters and presented over 200 talks at international conferences. Her research received over 4000 citations. She is listed in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List 2024, 2023 and 2022. Ana Brochado is an economist and professor