José Manuel Ivo Carvalho VICENTE, was born in Alenquer, Lisbon District. Graduated in Management from Faculty of Economics, at Nova University of Lisbon; Master in Business Administration from the University of Evora, whose dissertation focused on the Portuguese civil aviation; keeper an Executive MBA in Air Transports Management/ Civil Aviation, from the Aeronautical Sciences School ¿ ULHT, under the supervision of Cranfield University; PhD student in Management at the University of Evora, whose theme of the thesis focuses on the area of civil aviation / national airports. Member of the Centre for Research in Economics and Management, University of Evora, CEFAGE since 2010 as a PhD student. The investigation areas are the following: modelling of airports, marketing aviation, air transportation economics and management. From 2006 to 2009, worked on several projects (intermodality ¿ national, regional and international fields) developed in Multinationals Companies, as a manager.