Amélia Cristina Ferreira da Silva holds a Ph. D. in Management Accounting. She teaches Management Accounting at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto. Her research interests are in accounting and management control, accountability in public organizations, and business failure prediction. She supervised several master’s dissertations and Ph.D. theses. She has participated in international conferences and national and international projects. She has also several scientific publications and collaborations as peer reviewer in international journals. She was head of CEOS.PP—Centre for Organizational and Social Studies of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, by FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology, the Portuguese entity for science and technology.