Pedro Oliveira is Dean at Nova School of Business and Economics, where he is also CASCAIS Chair Professor of Operations, Technology and Innovation).

Pedro is also Professor MSO at Copenhagen Business School; Academic Fellow at Cornell University’s Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures; Founder of Patient Innovation; and co-founder of PPL Crowdfunding.

He also serves as the President of the Open and User Innovation Society (OUI), the scientific society that gathers schollars in the field of open and user innovation worlwide.

He is also a member of the National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CNCTI) – an advisory body to the Portuguese Government in the areas of science, technology and innovation and a member of the Economics and Social Council (CES – Conselho Económico e Social) – a constitutional body for consultation and social concertation.

Previously he was Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Research; Director of the Research Unit in Business and Economics; Academic Director of the LisbonMBA (a joint-venture between Católica-Lisbon, NovaSBE and MIT-Sloan); and Academic Director of the doctoral program in Technology Change and Entrepreneurship (offered in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University) at Católica-Lisbon School of Business & Economics. He was also the founder and director of several exec ed programs.

Pedro also served as advisor to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal (with Ministers Mariano Gago and Manuel Heitor) and as member of the Environment & Sustainability Council at EDP Energias de Portugal. He was also an International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management .

His research has been published in leading journals such as Production and Operations Management (POM), Research Policy, Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM), Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Orphanet, New England Journal of Medicine – Catalyst, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, among other.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations, Technology and Innovation Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and his M.Sc. and his “licenciatura” in Naval Engineering from IST. He also completed advanced training at Harvard Business School and at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.