Florinda Matos holds a PhD in Social Sciences (Organisational Behaviour Studies) awarded by the University of Lisbon. She also holds a Master’s degree in Business Sciences from INDEG/ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, and Bachelor’s degrees in Management of Agricultural Business and in Agronomic Engineering, both awarded by the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém. She is Professor at ISCTE Business School – University Institute of Lisbon, where she teaches in the field of management, and serves as an invited professor at international higher education institutions. She is an integrated researcher at DINÂMIA’CET – IUL (Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and the Territory). She is also the founder and coordinator of the CoVE – Future Skills Factory®, a skills laboratory and observatory dedicated to the analysis, anticipation and development of skills for a digital and sustainable future. The initiative aims to support public policies, as well as the education and qualification system, by contributing to the identification and development of competencies aligned with the needs of an innovative, inclusive and sustainable economy. Her research activity is structured around knowledge management, intellectual capital management, measurement of intangibles, sustainability, innovation, additive manufacturing and digital transformation. She undertook postdoctoral research at NOVA.id.FCT, addressing the social impacts of additive manufacturing. She coordinated the national research project KM3D – Knowledge Management in Additive Manufacturing: Designing New Business Models, funded by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and implemented within a national research consortium. She serves as national coordinator of the European projects CATALYST – European VET Excellence for Leading Sustainable Systems and Business Transformation (Erasmus+) and CERERE – CEreals REsiliency REvolution for Agile Supply Chain Management in the Mediterranean (PRIMA Programme). She also acts as Coordinating Researcher in the project INITIATE – Supporting European R&I through Stakeholder Collaboration and Institutional Reform (Erasmus+). Her academic contributions include membership of scientific committees of international conferences, where she has undertaken the roles of organiser, speaker, mini-track chair and reviewer, as well as Conference Chair of several international academic conferences. She is also Chair of the Global Forum of Intellectual Capital (GFIC). Her scholarly output comprises more than 50 academic publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, books and book chapters. In parallel with her academic activity, she has contributed to public discourse through the publication of more than 200 opinion articles addressing economic and social issues and through participation in podcasts. She currently holds the position of Associate Editor in Economics and Business at Heliyon (Elsevier) and serves as Guest Editor for Springer Nature. She coordinates the thematic line Digital Transformation at the Sociodigital Lab for Public Policy. With recognised expertise in intellectual capital management, she is the founder and president of the Intellectual Capital Association (ICAA), whose mission is the valorisation of intellectual capital in support of sustainable development. She also serves as Portuguese Ambassador of the New Club of Paris and as European Ambassador of the International Conference on Knowledge and Innovation (CIKI), organised by the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. In addition, she is a member of the Observatory on Knowledge Management and Innovation in Public Administration at IPEA – Institute for Applied Economic Research of the Brazilian Government.