Director - Eduardo Miguel Vicente de Almeida Cardadeiro


/ Updated on 22.01.2008

Eduardo Miguel Vicente de Almeida Cardadeiro - Director

Name: Eduardo Miguel Vicente de Almeida Cardadeiro

Nationality: Portuguese

Date of birth: 25 October 1969

Academic qualifications

1993 Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Degree in Economics
2006 University of Évora - Doctorate in Economics - thesis “Economic Regulation of the Water Supply and Treatment Industry”.

Professional Experience

  • March 1991 to October 1991 - Centre of Applied Studies, - Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Research Assistant.
  • June 1991 to July 1993 - AESE – Association of Higher Corporate Studies.
  • July 1993 to October de 2001 - Centre of Applied Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Researcher and Consultant.
  • October 1993 to August 1998 - Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Trainee Lecturer in  Microeconomics (I and II), Industrial Economics (I and II) and Economics of Regulation and Competition.
  • October 1998 to February 2000 - Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Guest Lecturer in Industrial Economics in the Economics Department.
  • October 1998 to February 2000 - Universidade de Évora, Guest Lecturer in the Economics Department.
  • 2002 to 2004 - INA – National management Institute – Trainer in Economic Regulation.
  • 2002 to 2004 – Higher Institute of Economics and Management - Lecturer in Economic Regulation, Masters in Economics and Energy and Environmental Policy.
  • 2001 a 2003 - Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Co-responsible for European Industrial Economics, - Post-Graduate/Master in European Studies.
  • Since March 2000 - Universidade de Évora – Assistant Professor in Microeconomics and Industrial Economics (lecturer until Jan 2006).
  • January 1998 to June 2006 – Centre of Economic and Business Studies, Universidade Autónoma – Researcher and Consultant.

Key projects participated in:

- In CEA-UCP - Intercalary assessment of PEDIP II and global assessment of PEDIP II (87-91) for the Ministry of Economy; State non-interventionalism in the Economy, for the Secretary of State for Administrative Modernization; The cost of non-supplied electrical energy, for EDP; Impact assessment of the “Empreendimento de Fins Múltiplos” of Alqueva, for EDIA.

- In CEEE-UAL - Study of entry barriers to the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) market, for Centromarca; Model for setting usage fees for Portuguese rail infrastructure, for the National Institute of Rail Transport; Airport Productivity, User Costs, Economic Regulation and airport fees for 2002, for the National Civil Aviation Institute; Study of Hierarchization of Abandoned Mines, for EXMIN; Review of the Basis for Multi-municipal Concessions, for IRAR - Regulatory Institute of Water and Waste, February 2005, and Interchange Fee and competition problems, for VISA Portugal

- Model and Legal Framework for the Organisation and Regulation of Public Passenger Road Transport in Luanda, for the Government of the Republic of Angola;  Regulation of Public Passenger Transport, for ANTROP - National Association of Heavy Road Passenger Transport; Assessment of the Integrated CALYPSO Project in the Lisbon Area, for OTLIS - Lisbon Transport Operators; Consultant to the Minister of the Environment on framework-law for water (Economic and Financial Sustainability)

- “Airport Productivity, User Costs and Economic Regulation”, in partnership with the Aeronautical Department of  University of Cranfield, UK, for the National Civil Aviation Institute, December 2001, “Airport Fees for 2002”, for the National Civil Aviation Institute, March 2002, “Study of Hierarchization of Abandoned Mines”, for EXMIN, May 2004, “Review of the Basis for Multi-municipal Concessions, for IRAR - Regulatory Institute of Water and Waste, February 2005, and “Interchange Fee and competition problems”, for VISA Portugal, June 2006.

Has participated in various national and international conferences and workshops, and had written a number of articles:

- “CEE Countries and EU Anti- Dumping Policy: A First Glance on Some Specific Cases”, "Communitary Anti-dumping,  Camouflaged Industrial Policy?", “Portuguese Industrial Policy: Its Problems and Hints for the CEEC Policies?”, “CEE Countries and EU Anti-Dumping Policy: An “Aggressive Policy?”, “Ascending Vertical Restrictions: a new vision of production-distribution relationships”, “Promotion of Public Transport and the reduction of external factors”, “Attracting Direct Foreign Investment - Motivations, effects and policies” , “Public vs. Private Monopolies: efficiency in Public Utilities”, “Economic Regulation of the Water Industry”.