Joana Mendonça

Joana Mendonça is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. She was President of the Portuguese National Innovation Agency (ANI) from May 2021 to March 2023. From 2010 to 2012, she was Deputy Director at the Directorate for Education and Science Statistics (DGEEC). She is a member of the Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Studies, IN+, where she led the Laboratory of Technology Management and Policy (until 2021) and has developed research activities on management of technology and innovation, as well as technology commercialization and adoption. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Research Policy, Small Business Economics and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. She was scientific director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Partnership (2012-2021) and scientific coordinator at the Center of Engineering and Product Development, CEiiA, (2018-2021). In 2016, she was an assistant to the Minister for Economy on issues related to Innovation and Technology and, from 2009 to 2010, she was an assistant to the Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education.