Filipa is working as a Project Manager and Research Fellow at the Center for Responsible Business & Leadership at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, exploring how companies can embrace sustainable strategies to leverage their next level competitive advantage. She is also taking her PHD “on how companies embrace SDG’s as a strategic advantage” at the Rotterdam School of Management.

She mentors social business in different countries, she is a trainer on social innovation bootcamps and teaches on executive education for different institutions. She is also part of the Community Board of one of the biggest worldwide community of social entrepreneurs – Makesense. At the moment she is also part of the group of Economists advising Pope Francis on a new Economic Model, on the Pope’s initiative called “Economy of Francesco”.

She was previously working as business developer and community manager at IES-Social Business School, mentoring dozens of social entrepreneurs around Europe, Africa and Middle East. Previously, she was serving as Economic Policy Advisor in the European Parliament, where she followed the developments of the European economic and financial crisis of 2011.

Filipa also worked for Critical Software Brazil in the business development area, she was Assistant professor of Microeconomics at the Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics and worked as an analyst consultant for Deloitte Consulting in the area of Strategy and Operations.

Filipa took her MSc of Business Administration in Católica Lisbon and holds a Bachelor in Economics in Católica Porto Business School. She recently took part of the Shared Value executive course at Harvard Business School with Prof Michael Porter and Mark Kramer.