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Meet the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs

Welcome to the Undergraduate Programs of Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics!

At CATÓLICA-LISBON, we are committed to training the business leaders of tomorrow. We embrace all students looking for a demanding program with personalized guidance, focused on career development, and looking to unleash their potential.

Our programs were designed to offer you solid knowledge, allowing you to gain specialized expertise in areas of your preference. The unique school environment will help you develop interdisciplinary skills critical for your professional success, enhance your entrepreneurial ability, and immerse you into the exciting world of business and economics.

The undergraduate students at CATÓLICA-LISBON benefit from the possibility of developing various international experiences along their academic journey. Our school maintains partnerships with more than 100 universities in Europe and other continents under the Erasmus program and through other partnership agreements, including double degree opportunities in France and the USA. The international experience of our students is highly valued by business companies that recruit our graduates, who often follow careers at a global level.

If you have the ambition for a distinctive global career, our Undergraduate Programs are the right path. Join a vibrant academic community and open yourself to a world of opportunities.

Rita Coelho do Vale

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs
 
Associate Professor of Marketing with Aggregation
 
Academic Director- Licenciatura em Gestão
 
Academic Director- International Undergraduate Program in Business Administration
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Prof. Rita Coelho do Vale is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and the Academic Director of the Programs in Management/ Business Administration. She holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from Tilburg University (the Netherlands), an MBA from Faculdade de Economia-UNL, and a ‘Licenciatura’ in Economics- specialization in Business Administration from Faculdade de Economia- Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Besides managing the Undergraduate programs, she also coordinates the Behavioral Insights Unit at Católica Lisbon, which comprises different labs and data collection tools as the LERNE- Laboratory of Experimental Research iN Economics and Management, the PEO- Online Research Panel, and the OSP-Observatory of the Portuguese Society.

Her main research interests are on decision-making processes, self-regulation and its impact on choice and consumption decisions, impulsive buying behavior, package formats, and sustainable consumption. She teaches currently both in the Masters of Science, the Executive Masters, as in several executive education courses.

 

Catarina Reis

Associate Professor of Economics
 
Academic Director - Licenciatura em Economia
 
Academic Director -International Undergraduate Program in Economics and Finance
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Catarina Reis is the Academic Director for the Undergraduate Program in Economics and for the International Undergraduate Program in Economics and Finance.

She holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Her areas of specialization are Macroeconomics and Economic Theory, and her research focuses on the design of optimal fiscal policy.

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The Academic Director’s Office has weekly office hours available to students to individually share ideas and concerns about academic topics, curricular plans, discipline and conduct issues, and other relevant matters.
These office hours are available on a weekly basis and all students are welcome to book a slot.

 

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