Ricardo Paes Mamede holds a Ph.D. in Economics by Bocconi University (Italy), a Master’s in Economics and Management of Science and Technology by the Higher Institute of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon (ISEG/UL), and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics by the same institution. He is Associate Professor of the Department of Political Economy at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, where he teaches since 1999 in the areas of European Economy and Integration, Industrial Dynamics and Innovation, Industrial Policy, and Policy Evaluation. He is presently Iscte’s Pro-Rector for Academic Collaboration with East Asia. Formerly, he was the Dean of Iscte-Sintra – School of Applied Digital Technologies from 2022 to 2025. He also served as President of the Board of Iscte’s Institute for Public and Social Policies (Ipps-Iscte) between 2018 and 2023. He is a National Delegate to OECD’s Technology and Innvation Working Party since 2024. Between 2017-2020 is was a Member of the Portuguese Economic and Social Council, elected as a Person of Recognised Merit. Between 2008 and early 2014 he was the Coordinator of the Research and Evaluation Department at the Portuguese NSRF Observatory, the institution responsible for monitoring and evaluating the use of EU structural funds in Portugal. In 2007/2008 he was Head of Department of Economic Analysis and Forecasting at the Cabinet of Strategy and Studies of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation. He is a Member of Dinâmia'CET, Iscte’s Center for Research on Socioeconomic Change and Territory, where he has participated in and coordinated several research projects on innovation studies, industrial and innovation policy, and policy evaluation. Ricardo Paes Mamede was born in Coimbra (Portugal) in 1974.