Biography
Degree and Master’s in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto. She has a PhD in Behavioral Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Since 2004 she has been a member of staff at the LSE and between 2004 and 2014 she was responsible for the Negotiation course, which she transformed into a reference course at the LSE. Since 2017 she has been a staff member of the Oxford Programme on Negotiation (OPN), a program for executives at the University of Oxford, Said Business School where she is an Associate Fellow.
Marta Coelho teaches Negotiation in various executive programs at Porto Business School. In terms of research, her main focus is the study of over-optimism and over-confidence among economic agents and the implications of such biases for economic decision-making. The themes of her research are central to the field of Behavioral Economics, as evidenced by the reference to her work by the Nobel Prize in Economics, Daniel Kahneman, in her book “Thinking Fast and Slow”.
In addition to teaching and research, she also works as a consultant. She is also a Henley Business School Certified Coach (accredited by the ICF, AC and EMCC) and has proven experience in executive coaching in the areas of Negotiation and Influence. She is a Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of Corticeira Amorim (a world leader in the cork industry), where is also Chairman of the ESG Committee and a Member of the Audit Committee.