Holding two PhD degrees, in Management and in African Studies, Renato Pereira is Professor at the Department of Marketing, Operations and General Management, Researcher at the Business Research Unit (BRU-Iscte) and at the Center of International Studies (CEI-Iscte) and he teaches in programs from Iscte Business School and from the School of Sociology and Public Policy.Specialized in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, International Business Management, and in Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Former resident-student at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the private foundation in charge of managing the international campus of the French capital city, elected by a college representing 5,000+ voters from 150+ nationalities.He has worked for different companies of the ICT cluster, including Outsystems, one of the initial Portuguese unicorns.
As Director of Inteli - Innovation Center, he has integrated the coordination structure of the Mobi.E consortium, responsible for the development of the 1st nation-wide network in the world for electric vehicle charging, and the board of directors of SGORME, the network operations management company.
For thirteen consecutive years, he was member of the Supervisory Board of Taguspark, the managing company of one of the biggest and most relevant science and technology facilities in Portugal.He was Advisor to the Minister of Public Works, Transportation and Communications of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Portuguese Constitutional Governments.He has directed the Executive Master in Innovation Management at Iscte Executive Education and several master-level subjects at Iscte Business School and at the Master of African Studies.
As Associate Professor of UniversidadeAutónoma de Lisboa, he directed: the PhD program in Business Economics, the Geoeconomics Seminar of the PhD program in International Relations, the MSc program in Business Management, and the BSc program in Management, as well as several subjects from all three levels.
His paper Entrepreneurship role on dynamic capabilities: A longitudinal study on Brazilian and Portuguese firms, written in co-authorship, was short-listed for Best Paper Prize at the Special Conference of the Strategic Management Society, in 2011. His paper Resilient employees are creative employees, when the workplace forces them to be, published in co-authorship, was awarded with the Tudor Rickards and Susan Moger Creativity and Innovation Management Best Paper Award, reported to the year 2019.
He has supervised 5 post-docs, 17 doctorates and 168 master's.He has a long and extensive international academic experience, having taken visiting positions in universities from Angola, Brazil, France, Hungary, India, Mozambique, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan.