Cristina Montalvão Sarmento is an Associate Professor (tenure) at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lisbon. In October 2022, she was elected to the direction board of the IAU-International Association of Universities (UNESCO) and was nominated Vice-President to serve the 2022-26 term. Director of the Political Observatory, an association for Political Studies created in 2009 at Universidade NOVA, currently based at the University of Lisbon. She founded and has been the editor of Revista Política Portuguesa (Political Observer) since 2010. With several national and international publications, Cristina Montalvão Sarmento specializes in areas such as Political Theory, Global Studies, and Security and Defense. Between 2015-2022, Cristina Sarmento was the Coordinator of the Seminar Political Theory (Ph.D. in Political Sciences) and was executive coordinator of the II Cycle of Studies, Masters in Political Sciences at ISCSP-ULisboa, until 2021. She taught as a guest lecturer and/or researcher since 2007 in Brazil (UERJ, Laboratory of Power Networks and Cultural Relations), at SciencesPo (2012-2015, Poitiers, France), and at foreign research and teaching institutions such as GATECH - USA (2012-2018, Latin American Seminar). Since 1997, throughout her career, Cristina Montalvão Sarmento has published several books as author, editor, and/or co-author, accounting for more than 20 chapters of published books and articles published in national and international journals primarily on public political protest (the later in 2019, Springer Scopus Collection with a Russian network). Ever since 2014, she has been on the board direction of IPSA's RC-15 Committee (currently in her second term - http://rc15.ipsa.org/pages/Board-of-Officers2). Cristina Montalvão Sarmento is an expert and guest consultant for several national (FCT, AR) and international institutions in matters related to higher education (Secretary-General of the Association of Portuguese Language Universities, since 2006, where she also directed the RILP - International Journal on Portuguese Language) and research in Political Science (APCP; AHILA, ACIS). In March 2022, he obtained the Title of Aggregation in Global Studies. She supervised more than 70 master's and doctoral theses and participated in more than 100 evaluative research juries. She is also an occasional political commentator for newspapers, television, and radio. (see: https://thebusinessyear.com/interview/cristina-montalvao-sarmento-portugal-2023/ )