Faculty Member

Mariana Costa

Biography

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto and a guest lecturer at Porto Business School, where she teaches on executive and postgraduate programmes. Her specialisation lies in Commercial Law, with a particular focus on corporate governance and commercial distribution.

She is the Executive Director of the Executive Monitoring Committee of the Corporate Governance Code of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance, where she coordinates the annual monitoring of listed companies’ adoption of the Code’s recommendations in Portugal. In this context, she also participates in national and international initiatives to promote good corporate governance practices, with a particular focus on SMEs. Her work combines in-depth academic knowledge with practical experience, contributing to the development and implementation of robust and sustainable policies in business management.

She holds a Master’s degree in Civil Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and a PhD in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto.