Manuela Sarmento is a full professor of management at the Lusíada University of Lisbon (ULUS). She is currently a retired full professor of the Military Academy (AM) of the Military University Institute (IUM). She is an integrated researcher at the Research Center for Organizational, Market and Industrial Management (COMEGI-ULUS). She is a guest researcher at the Center for Population, Economy and Society Studies (CEPESE-UP) and the Research and Development Center of the IUM (CIDIUM). She holds a degree in Aggregation, from the Beira Interior University (UBI), a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon (IST-UL), a MSc in Business Sciences from the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa and a degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from IST-UL (5-year course). She holds a diploma in Auditor of National Defense from the Instituto Defesa Nacional (IDN). At the beginning of her professional career, she worked in a large national company and in a multinational IT company, where she held management positions. She taught at IST-UL, the following curricular units: Total Quality Management, Marketing Management, Human Resouces Management and Fundamentals of Management. At the Military Academy, she was coordinator of the integrated MSc in Military Administration for the Army and coordinator of the integrated MSc in Administration for GNR. She was coordinator of the academic section of finance, accounting and taxation, responsible for the curricular units of Human Resources Management, Leadership, Financial Management I and II. She elaborated and was chair of the MSc in Leadership at AM and was responsible for the Advanced Seminars in Leadership. She was a member of the Scientific Council and of the Pedagogical Council at AM. At Lusíada University, she was responsible for the following curricular units: Scientific Research Methodology for the PhD in Management and Knowledge Management of the MSc in Human Resource Management. She elaborated and coordinated the bachelor’s degree in Tourism Management at Lusíada University. She supervised 17 PhD theses (completed) and 146 MBA dissertations (completed). She was responsible for the final course work in Tourism Management. She published 122 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 196 articles in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and published 14 books. She was juri on several PhD and MBA. She organized more than 32 international and national conferences and belongs to more than 60 scientific committees. She participated im more than 80 international Conferences with communications. She is a member of the editorial board of 10 journals and was co-editor of 2 scientific journals. She participated as coordinator and researcher in 19 national and European Union R&D projects in the areas of strategic management, human resources management, leadership, accounting, finance, environment and tourism. She has 11 protocols with international universities. She wrote 11 reports for courses evaluations. She was juri on more than 140 academic exams, such as Aggregation, PhD, and MBA. She belonged to the Scientific Council at ULUS. She was head of the Research Center of the Military Academy (CINAMIL) and of the Center for Research in Innovation, Tourism and Services (CITIS) of the Lusíada university. She was an evaluator of new postgraduate and master's courses at the Portuguese ministry of higher education. She was an evaluator of R&D projects for the European Commission (Marie Curie, Horizon 2020, Horizon-Widera 2021), and for the Italian and Greek Accreditation Agency. She was president of the southern Portugal Management Association for 8 years and vice-president of the national defence autitors association.