Joana Mendonça, CMU Portugal scientific director and member of the Program’s faculty and research community, was appointed as the new President of the Agência Nacional de Inovação (ANI), the Portuguese Innovation Agency, for the next 3 years. This is the first time the Agency is leaded by a woman.
The CMU Portugal’s Scientific director has an extensive and successful career in Engineering and Public Policy, an expertise that will certainly be an asset for this new position as head of ANI’s Board of Directors. Joana Mendonça is an Associate professor at the Engineering and Management Department (DEG) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), co-coordinator of the Master program in Engineering and Management of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MEGIE) and of the Doctoral program in Engineering and Public Policy.
Throughout the years, Joana Mendonça has participated in the CMU Portugal 2013 ERI E4Value, has been a Ph.D. Advisor of three dual-degree Ph.D. candidates, and published several papers in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University researchers.
The ANI Board of Directors also includes Eduardo Bacelar, from the Computer Graphics Center of the University of Minho and João Borga, the executive director of Startup Portugal, a public-private think tank in charge of benchmarking government initiatives to support a thriving entrepreneurship community.
The new Board of Directors and governing bodies will begin their duties in May 2021.
