Rita Almeida Dias's Page

Source of my passion about the power of business to fight poverty

I am an entrepreneur

Website:

http://www.sustentare.pt

Industry:

sustainability consultant

About my work:

Rita Almeida Dias is a founding member of Sustentare, Lda., a consultancy on sustainable management, where she provides technical advice on sustainability (in environmental, social and governance aspects) to its clients. In addition, she is still responsible, together with a founding member, for client management and staff coordination.

At the academic level, she has a master in corporate responsibility, accounting and social audit at the University of Barcelona. She has also a post graduation in Management at the Instituto Superior de Gestão, which she has concluded after obtaining the degree in Communication Studies, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Throughout her teaching activity, she was responsible, in the Executive Master of Corporate Sustainability, Business and Environment, at the INDEG - Instituto para o Desenvolvimento da Gestão Empresarial, by the ISCTE, for the discipline “Stakeholders’ Dialogue”. In 2006 and 2007 she has taught “Implementation of a Sustainability Strategy”, in the Post Graduation in Sustainable Development and Management at the Universidade Católica, at Oporto. She has also taught the discipline of “Marketing for Non-Profit Organizations”, at the Instituto Superior de Serviço Social, in Lisbon.

She is an auditor for the Social Accountability 8000 International Standard (SA8000), and she has also the course on environmental certification of buildings BREEAM and LiderA. She has also the course on the AA1000 standard, certified by AccountAbility.

She has co-organized and published the book “Sustainability, Competitiveness and Social & Environmental Equity”, published by Almedina.

Interested in:

Professional Contacts, Potential Partners, New ventures

Topics on my radar:

opportunity to work with business in africa to fight poverty