Helena Vasques de Carvalho holds a PhD in Sociology of Culture (2016) from ISCTE, Portugal, a master's degree in piano performance from the University of Tennessee - USA, and a Diploma from the Lisbon National Conservatory. Her primary research fields are artists' professions and the market economy, vocational and professional development, and performing arts in the creative agenda. She is currently a researcher at INET-md, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Previous positions include Coordinating the Music Education Department at ISEIT, Almada, at the Master's degree program (2017-19), Associate professor at ISEIT, and invited Associate professor at Universidade de Évora (2022). She teaches a PhD seminar on "Cultural Industries in the XXI century" at INET-MD Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is the President of the Portuguese Coalition for Cultural Diversity, a member of IFCDC - International Federation of Cultural Diversity Coalitions, an invited observer by the UNESCO Cultural Diversity at the intergovernmental meetings on cultural diversity 2018/19/20/21 (2005 Convention), the international academic reviewer at IAFOR, since 2017; jury member at DGArtes public funding for the arts in 2018-19; as professional pianist performed many concerts in Portugal and elsewhere - recitals, chamber music concerts and orchestra concerts. She was involved in preparing the 2016 Portugal Report at UNESCO and has been working as an arts researcher and activist at the Artists Union. She was the Portuguese representative at the congresses of the Federation of International Coalitions (FICDC) in 2007 (Seville), 2009 (Bahia), 2013 (Möns), and 2019 (Togo); Portuguese representative at all CEDC meetings in Europe (Paris and Brussels) and since 2006; Portuguese representative at the FIM Congress in Romania (2009); Copenhagen (2011). She has been Portugal's ABRSM representative - Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music - since 2017.