Filipe Almeida is currently President of the Mission Unit Portugal Inovação Social (Portugal Social Innovation), a public entity created to promote social innovation and social entrepreneurship, and to develop the social investment market in Portugal. This government initiative is a pioneering public programme in Europe that mobilises around €150 million of European funds. He is also a professor at the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre of Social Studies (CES/FEUC) and the Centre of Cooperative and Social Economy Studies (CECES/FEUC). He holds a PhD in Business Administration from EBAPE/FGV (Brazilian School of Public Administration and Business, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and a PhD in Business Management from FEUC (Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal). He also holds a Master’s degree in Business Sciences from FEUC, having attended the MBA programme at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (USA). He is the author of several books and articles on business ethics, corporate social responsibility and academic fraud.