Manuela Sarmento is a full professor of management at the Lusíada University of Lisbon (ULus) and Military Academy of the Military University Institute (IUM). She is Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Population, Economy and Society Studies (CEPESE-UP) and guest researcher at the Research Centre for Organizational, Markets and Industrial Management (COMEGI-ULus) and Research and Development Centre CIDIUM. She holds aggregation in Management by the Universidade Beira Interior (UBI), the PhD in Engineering and Industrial Management by Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa (IST-UL), the Master in Management Sciences by Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE-IUL) and the diploma degree (graduate) in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering by IST-UL (5 years course). She holds the degree in National Defence auditor by Instituto Defesa Nacional (IDN). She worked in a large national company and in a multinational computer company, where she served as manager. She teached at the IST-UL and at the Military Academy (AM). At AM she was the coordinator of the Integrated Masters in Military Administration and in Administration at GNR, she was the coordinator of the Finance, Accounting and Taxes course units, head of Human Resources Management, Leadership, Financial Management I and II. She was president of the Scientific Council of the Master in Leadership at AM and the head of the Advanced Seminars I. At Universidade Lusíada, she was head of the Scientific Research Methodology to the PhD in Management and head of Knowledge Management to the Master of Management Human Resources. She is coordinator of the graduate course in Tourism Management at Lusíada University. She has supervised 17 PhD theses (concluded) and 141 Master's dissertations (concluded). She published more than 180 national and international articles with scientific arbitration and published 13 books. She was in several PhD, and MSc juries. She organized more than 30 international and national congresses, and she belongs to more than 40 scientific committees. She belongs to the editorial board of 10 Journals and was co-editor of 2 scientific journals. She participated as coordinator and researcher in 19 national and community R&D projects in the area of Strategic Management, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Accounting, Finance and Tourism. She was president of the Research Centre at Military Academy (Cinamil) and of the Research Centre for Management and Economics (CITIS) at Lusíada University. She was an evaluator of new graduate and masters courses at the Ministry of Higher Education. She was an evaluator of R&D projects at European Commission and at the Italian and Greek Accreditation Agency. She was 8 years president of the South Portuguese Management Association and vice president of the National Defence Auditors Association.