Carlos is the President of the Board of Directors and CEO at IES-Social Business School, he is the founder and former president of the Board of Directors at ESLIDER-PORTUGAL - National Network for Civil Society Leaders - and former Board member at EUCLID-Network – European Network for Civil Society Leaders. He worked as a research associate at INSEAD. He was also a research assistant at the Catolica University in Portugal and the former CEO of UDIPSS-PORTO, an umbrella group for more than 500 Nonprofit organizations in the country. He is the author of several books on Social Innovation such as “Managing Nonprofit Organizations - the challenge of social Innovation”, “The Social Entrepreneur’s Guide to Changing the World” and “Governance Manual for Nonprofit Organizations - the leadership challenge of social innovation". Carlos holds a BsC in Economics and is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Minho – Portugal.

Carlos is an assistant visiting professor at Católica Porto Business School and also teaches the elective course on Social Entrepreneurship at the MBA programme of INSEAD in Fontainebleau.