Raquel is the founder of de-fora-fora and an Assistant Professor at Católica Porto Business School (CPBS).

She has a PhD in Management from the University of Bath, UK. She is passionate about the non-profit sector, to which she has dedicated a large part of her research and consultancy activity, having coordinated various teams over the years.

Examples include the studies Trends and Challenges for Portuguese Foundations (2022) and The Social Impact of Portuguese Foundations for the Portuguese Foundation Centre (2021), the NGOs Diagnosis in Portugal for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2015), the Portuguese chapter for the EUFORI - European Foundations for Research and Innovation project for the European Commission's DG Research and Innovation (2015).

She had the privilege of working directly with Emílio Rui Vilar in teaching a pioneering course on the Management of Non-Profit Organisations in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and of working with Lester Salamon on the project on the Portuguese Non-Profit Sector, which would later give rise to the Social Economy Satellite Account.

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