Education
Public Policy Analysis Certificate
London School of Economics, UK — 2025
Ph.D. in Social Work
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada — 2019
Specialization: Citizenship Rights, Comparative Social Policies, Political Economy
Thesis: "The Politics of Austerity and Social Citizenship Rights: A Case Study of the Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on the Welfare State in Portugal"
Supervisor: Prof. Allan Moscovitch
Certifications & Training
Sustainability for Business: ESG Fundamentals, IMD - International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland (2025)
Learning to Teach Online, The University of New South Wales, Australia (2025)
Generative AI for Educators Specialization Certificate (comprised of the following Generative AI courses: Introduction and Applications, Prompt Engineering Basics and Empowering Modern Education), IBM Skills Network, USA (2025)
Excellence in Online Teaching, Johns Hopkins University, USA (2025)
Generative AI for Educators & Teachers Specialization Certificate (comprised of the following four courses: Generative AI Primer, Innovative Teaching with ChatGPT, GPT Vision: Seeing the World through Generative AI, and Trustworthy Generative AI), Vanderbilt University, USA (2025)
Generative AI and ESG, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey. USA (2025)
AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching, University of Pennsylvania, USA (2025)
Sustainable Development in the 21st Century with Ban Ki-moon, Yonsei University (2025)
"One Million AI Prompters" Initiative, Dubai Future Foundation, UAE (2025)
The Sustainable Development Goals – A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2025)
Research Ethics Certification, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2: CORE), Canada (2020)