Pedro Oliveira MSc, PhD, Ed

Pedro Oliveira is Professor at Copenhagen Business School with special responsibilities in healthcare innovation; He is also Academic Fellow at the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures at Cornell University; Founder and President of Patient Innovation; and co-founder of PPL Crowdfunding. Pedro is Principal Investigator of several research initiatives.

Previously he was a Professor at Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics, where, among other, he served as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Academic Director of the Lisbon MBA, and Director of the doctoral program in Technology Change and Entrepreneurship. He was also an International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management and Advisor to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations, Technology and Innovation Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; hisM.Sc. in Operations Research and Systems Engineering; and his 'licenciatura' in Naval Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico. He also completed some advanced training at Harvard Business School and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.