João Cortes
João Cortes is currently pursuing his Ph.D in Engineering and Public Policy at Instituto Superior Técnico and Researcher at IN+ Center for Innovation, Policy and Technology Research.
Cortes has worked for 5 years in Data Science and AI Engineering for the European Central Bank, Deloitte Technology and the Portuguese Foreign Trade and Investment Agency. He has also worked as a Researcher at the Institute of Public Policy - Lisbon; at Nova SBE's Economics For Policy Knowledge Centre and at the Office for Strategy and Studies of the Portuguese Ministry of Economics. In his part time, Cortes has also been invited to lecture on Econometrics for Financial Markets at ISCTE.
João holds a Master's Degree in Economics with a Major in Data Science from Nova School of Business and Economics, where he was part of the Nova SBE Fellowship for Excellence program.
He has specialized in Artificial Intelligence, particularly in leveraging AI for advancing policy decision-making and policy strategy.
