The University of the Azores has announced that Maria Luísa Rocha, a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Azorean Academy (FEG-UAc), has been appointed by the Prime Minister to the Board of Directors of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD), in a non-executive capacity.
Among other duties, the Board of Directors is responsible for administering the Foundation’s assets and defining and establishing general operating policies; discussing and approving the Foundation’s budget, annual activity plan, and annual balance sheet; and defining the general criteria for awarding grants and other types of support from the Foundation.

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(for full transparency: FLAD, the Luso-American Development Foundation, sponsors PBBI’s Oral History, Lecture, and Conference Series and has also sponsored our Student Exchange Programs with the University of the Azores.)

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Maria Luísa Rocha holds a BSc in Economics from the Universidade dos Açores (2003); an MSc in Public Management from the Universidade dos Açores (2006); and a PhD in Economic and Management Sciences from the Universidade dos Açores (2010).
She has been a Professor at the Universidade dos Açores since 2009 and a researcher at the Center of Applied Economic Studies of the Atlantic since 2011. She teaches curricular units in Economics and Management for undergraduate and master’s degrees.
She has supervised numerous master’s students and some PhD students and have participated in several master’s juries.
She was the Director of the Degree in Management from 2021 to 2023 and has been the Director of the Degree in Economics since 2023.
Her primary research interests are measuring risks and vulnerabilities, probabilities and statistics, economics, and tourism. In these areas, she has published papers on inference on location using the scale and tourism statistics and the COVID-19 pandemic. (from the University of the Azores)