Miguel de Castro Neto is the Dean of NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS) where he is Associate Professor. Created and leads the NOVA Cidade – Urban Analytics Lab and directs the Master in Information Management and the Post-Graduation programs in Smart Cities and Business Analytics for Hospitality and Tourism.

He was Secretary of State of Spatial Planning and Nature Conservation in the XIX and XX Portuguese Government and Smart Cities Personality of the Year (Green Business Week 2017 / Fundação AIP).

Advisory Member fo the Portuguese Professional Engineers Association, founder of the Data Science Portuguese Association, member of the Sustainable Growth Platform think tank. President of Vissauim XXI Technical-Scientific board and former President of the Festival Terras Sem Sombra Curators Board.

Developing his research and teaching work in the area of Business Intelligence and Smart Cities, an highlight to the direction of NOVA IMS Master of Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence, currently ranked as the “Best Master Program in Business Intelligence” in the world by Eduniversal international ranking, where he teaches the Business Intelligence curricular units.