João Amaro de Matos is a full Professor of Finance who was Vice Rector of Nova University (2017-2025), Lisbon, having joined Nova School of Business and Economics in1995, where he has been Associate Dean for International Development (2005-2017) and Director of the PhD Programs. He holds a Ph.D. in Management (1995) from INSEAD and a PhD in Physics (1988) from Sao Paulo University. He was a visiting scholar at Heidelberg University (1988-89), at the London School of Economics (2002), and at the MIT (2012). He teaches Corporate Finance, Investments, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Continuous-Time Finance at all levels. He worked for the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) as an expert for the internationalization of Cuban Universities, was a member of the International Board of the Strasbourg Business School, a member of the Executive Board (2007-2017) of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS), chairing its Research and Doctoral Education Committee (2008-2012) and its Quality Assessment Committee (2015-2017), and more recently (2023-2025) vice-president of YERUN’s Executive Board. Currently a member of the International Advisory Board at INSPER (since 2020), São Paulo, and also member of the Scientific Committee of EDUNIVERSAL, a worldwide ranking system for Managerial education based in Paris. Additionally, João Amaro de Matos has taught in various European and Brazilian schools such as INSEAD, HEC Geneva, INSPER and Getúlio Vargas Foundation. He is the author of the textbook “Theoretical Foundations of Corporate Finance”, (Princeton University Press, 2001), and of “Sustainability and Organizational Change Management”, (Routledge,2015). He wrote more than 50 scientific works among books, chapters, papers, and conference proceedings, having founded and organized since 2007 the annual Luso-Brazilian Finance Meetings.
