In 1996, after a degree in Civil Engineering, at the Oporto University, I started my professional career in the second largest bulk water supplier in Portugal and a master’s degree in Structural Engineering, which allowed me to have my thesis awarded and the opportunity of becoming a teacher in that University.The responsibilities rapidly evolved to project management, involving several projects related to the design and construction of a variety of infrastructures. I later accepted (2001) the challenge of leading a project to implement an integrated quality, environmental and health and safety management system that was the first, in the Portuguese water sector, to obtain a simultaneous certification in those three international standards.In 2005, I did my MBA at the EGP – UPBS Oporto Business School. As a side activity, I went back to teaching in the Oporto University but this time in Environmental Economics and Management.After working in the construction sector for a few years, I went back to a water utility assuming, this time, responsibilities as General Manager at Águas de Gondomar (population 165 000), from 2009 to 2011, and Águas de Cascais (population 210 000), from 2011 to 2016.In 2016, I started my position as director in Indaqua, a company that holds water utilities serving more than 800 000 consumers, at first as COO and, since 2020, as CEO.