João Wengorovius Meneses

With a university degree in Management, he has held various management and leadership positions in the public and private sectors, as well as in the third sector. Among other posts, he was president of ONGD TESE, coordinator of GABIP Mouraria at Lisbon City Council, manager of the Mouraria Innovation Center, an incubator for creative industries, Secretary of State for Youth and Sports in the 21st Constitutional Government of Portugal and, more recently, general manager of an investment fund for business angels and of an accelerator at Porto Business School (University of Porto). He was also a guest professor at two Portuguese universities for about ten years and a columnist for an economic newspaper. He attended several training courses for executives in the field of sustainability at several international universities, such as: Harvard, Kellogg, Stanford, INSEAD, Cambridge and IMD.