Carla Da Conceição Afonso Correia

Biography

  Began her professional career in 1996 at the Fernando Seara, José Luís Seixas e Gonçalo Ribeiro da Costa law firm, where she mostly engaged in commercial legal practices. She joined the Águas de Portugal Group in 1999 taking on responsibility for the legal services of AQUAPOR, a company with activities in municipal concessions for water supply and wastewater treatment. In January 2000, she moved to AdP Serviços as the Director of Juridical Services, coordinating the legal advice provided to the holding and the various Group companies, functions held until March 2005, accumulating them with those of Company Secretary to AdP SGPS and other Group companies. As Head of Office to the Assistant State Secretary for Public Works and Communications in the 17th Constitutional Government between 2005 and 2009, she supervised the drafting of the Code for Public Contracts and designed and implemented the e.escola online educational program. From 2010 to 2012, she served on the Executive Commission of SANEST before becoming a member of the Board of Directors of this company for the following two years, again with executive functions. As a consultant to the EPAL Board of Directors between May 2014 and November 2015, she held the role of Director of the Office of Image and Communications and advised on strategic projects. In November 2015, she became Head of Office to the State Secretary for the Environment in the 21st Constitutional Government with responsibility for supervising the EU processes of pre-litigation and litigation, transposition of directives, Court of Audit processes, among other matters related to companies and businesses within the scope of the State Secretary’s competences. She has served as the Vice-President of the AdP – Águas de Portugal, SGPS, S.A. Board of Directors since 1 June 2016.

Research Interest

 Recycling