Clara Bertrand Cabral holds a degree in Anthropology and a master's in Anthropological Sciences at the School of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP) of the University of Lisbon and a PhD in Social Sustainability and Development at the Open University of Portugal in the area of heritage studies. She worked in Social Security, Vocational and Educational Training (VET) and since 2005 has been a senior officer for culture at the Portuguese National Commission for UNESCO. Since 2011 she has taught in the areas of World Heritage, intangible cultural heritage and cultural heritage in general at the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies, at the Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, and in several training courses. She is an accredited trainer by the Scientific-Pedagogical Council for Continuing Education (register nb. CCPFC/RFO-37465/16) and has a certificate of professional aptitude for adult training (certificate nb. EDF 4641/98 DL). At the Portuguese National Commission for UNESCO, she advises and follows the Portuguese nominations to the World Heritage List, the Intangible Cultural Heritage lists and Register of Good Practices, the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, and UNESCO Chairs in Culture and Cultural Heritage. She has coordinated the edition of several publications, organized conferences, seminars and webinars, and managed all UNESCO culture and heritage issues in Portugal. She is a member of ICOMOS Portugal and investigator at the UNESCO Chair in Heritage and Values: Heritage and the Reshaping of Urban Conservation for Sustainability, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), and at the Centre for Global Studies, Open University of Portugal. She has been providing referee services in Scientific Committees of International Conferences.