PhD by FLUL, Lisbon University,  has a Master degree in Family and Society from ISCTE, Lisbon University Institute and has graduated in Geography and Regional Planning by Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty at the New University of Lisbon. Co-founder of iLIDH – Luso-Illyrian Institute for Human Development, and is also project coordinator in Family Sciences Institute at the Portuguese Catholic University. Over the past 25 years she has focused her career on participating and coordinating Research & Development and International Cooperation Projects.

She is co-founder and director of the social literacy programme LED on Values and of the Values University.

PhD in Educational Sciences by the Education and Psychology Faculty at the Portuguese Catholic University, has a degree in Sociology by the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE).

Co-founder of iLIDH – Luso-Illyrian Institute for Human Development. Over the past 25 years he has participated and coordinated several national and international Research and Development projects and has been a consultant for public and private bodies in Education, Training, Employment, Immigration and Knowledge Management areas. He also has acted as an expert and member of working groups in European Commission and OECD programs, being author and co-author of over a dozen publications.

Honorary Consul of the Republic of Albania in Lisbon, he is co-founder of the social literacy programme LED on Values and of the Values University.