Economics, Finance, Control and Accounting
Senior Teaching Fellow
Diogo Ribeiro Santos has a PhD in Management by Universidade Europeia, with the thesis “To borrow or not to borrow: a Neoclassical model to explain how scacity causes debt“. He graduated in Law bu Universidade de Lisboa, with post-graduate courses in Corporate Law and Management, by Nova SBE Executive Education, Enterprise Data Science and Analytics, by Nova IMS, and Executive MBA AESE/IESE.
He is a professor of finance at AESE, a PhD student of Sciences and Technologies of Information, at ISCTE, an investigator at INESC-ID, and a consultant.
He was a member of the board (CFO) and a partner at Insight Venture – Sociedade de Capital de Risco, SA, a senior consultant at One to One Corporate Finance and CEO at Sixt Rent-a-Car Portugal, having also served as member of the board (CFO) of Navalrocha – Sociedade de Construção e Reparação Navais, SA until 2012. He previously held the positions of deputy functions of the Minister of National Defense, after which he held the positions of director of the Department of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of National Defense and vice-president of the Portuguese Institute of Support to Development (IPAD).
His current research is linked to the areas of Decision Theory and Behavioral Finance and focuses on the economic and financial consequences of aversion to debt and the propensity for debt.
Programs in which he lectures
PDE – General Management Program
PGL – Managing and Leading
GAIN – Agricultural and Agribusiness Management
Short Programs
