Diogo Ribeiro Santos is an academic and consultant with extensive experience in finance, management, and data science. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Universidade Europeia, where he teaches Statistics, Market Research, Forecasting Methods, and Data Analysis. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from Universidade Europeia and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technologies at ISCTE-IUL. Additionally, he completed a postgraduate degree in Enterprise Data Science and Analytics at Nova IMS.

He is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Finance at AESE Business School and has held positions such as Senior Partner and Financial Director at Insight Venture – Sociedade de Capital de Risco, CEO of Sixt Rent-a-Car Portugal, CFO of Navalrocha, SA, and Vice-President of the Portuguese Institute for Development Support. His experience includes company valuation, mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, and corporate restructuring.

His current research interests include natural language processing, applications of generative artificial intelligence, and the use of large language models in a business context.