Manuel Mouta Lopes holds a Ph.D. in Management from the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão at the University of Lisbon (ISEG-UL). He serves as a lecturer in the undergraduate Management program and in the master’s programs in Management and Business Information Systems at Universidade Aberta. His work focuses on Investments and Finance. He has served as the Vice-President of the Pedagogical Council at Universidade Aberta and was a member of the Coordinating Council of the Department of Social and Management Sciences. He has also coordinated the Master’s in Management program and the Bachelor’s in Management program. He has co-authored books in the areas of Project Evaluation and Investment Evaluation.