Maria de Lurdes Calisto holds a PhD in Management, which was awarded in 2014 by the University of Évora, and a Master's Degree from the Department of Economics of ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon. She is a Coordinator Professor at Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, where she has been President of the Technical-Scientific Committee (two mandates), sub-coordinator of the Master in Hotel Management, and co-coordinator of the Post-Graduation on Creation and Management of Tourism Start-ups. She also acts as an evaluator of funding applications for European organizations in the tourism, hospitality, and food services business area. She is an integrated researcher and coordinator of CiTUR Estoril - Centre for Tourism Research, Development and Innovation (centre accredited by FCT, the Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology) and a researcher (collaborator) at CEFAGE - Center for Studies and Advanced Training in Management and Economics of the University of Évora (centre accredited by FCT). She has experience as PI, co-PI, and member of research teams for several competitive research projects (namely, funded by FCT). She supervises doctoral thesis and several master's dissertations. She develops research in Business and Management, namely in the context of tourism, hospitality and food service businesses. Her research interests include entrepreneurship, business strategy, marketing, innovation management, intrapreneurial behaviour, corporate entrepreneurship, and sustainability. She has several publications with global book editors and Q1 /Q2 journals. She is frequently invited as a reviewer for top-tier journals and an invited lecturer with Portuguese and foreign universities. She also has several years of business experience as an entrepreneur, manager and business consultant namely for the T&H industry.