Isabel is currently the Director of Finance, Studies and Strategy in IMPIC (Portuguese Public Procurement Regulator), after being Vice President of Justice Financial and Equipment Management Institute.

Previously she worked six years as a National Expert in the European Commission in the field of Digital Procurement Policy and Digital Transformation of Public Procurement. For four of those six years she coordinated the Digital Procurement team in the Innovative and E-Procurement Unit of DG GROW (Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) in the European Commission.

She has a PhD in governance frameworks for Digital Transformation in the Public Sector, a specialisation in National Defence and a degree in Applied Mathematics.

She has more than 30 years’ experience in ICT and Public Administration management mainly in management positions including Deputy Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Public Works, Transport and Communications and Chairman of the ICT Committee in the same Ministry in Portugal.

She worked both in the Portuguese and Macau’s Public Sector in taxes, defence, social housing, public works, public procurement, among others.  She also has more than 15 years’ experience in public procurement electronic systems and has been one of the lecturers of the electronic Public Procurement module in the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Belgrade.