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Meet our team

Operational Team

Margarida Castro Caldas

Project Coordinator

What brings me to ICF is the will of having an opportunity to contribute to a society that welcomes and recognizes the unquestionable value of disability.

Frederico Oliveira Pinto

Project Manager

What brings me to ICF is to have the opportunity to contribute to the transformation of our community and being able to be at its service.

Carmo Ferreira Martins

Project Manager

What brings me to the ICF is the will to be part of a project that causes social change and has a concrete impact on the path to a more inclusive society.

Mafalda Correia de Sá

Project Manager

What brings me to ICF is the opportunity to serve the community and contribute to people with disabilities being an active part of society and having hope in a world that embraces their differences.

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board is made up of representatives from different areas who, every three months, meets the Operational Team to help outlining ICF's strategy and contributing to the development of its mission. This group includes parents of people with disabilities, Nova SBE faculty, companies' managers and representatives of social organizations dedicated to the lives of people with disabilities.

Ana Rita Bessa

CEO of LeYa, SA

What brings me to ICF is the challenge of people that I much respect, to contribute to the reflection and change in the lives of people with disabilities in Portugal. ICF has a solid grounding and a concrete action with a systemic ambition. Given my professional path, I believe I can contribute, from a macro perspective, from the education system to the employability.

Barbara Beck de Lancastre

CEO Europe, Affinitas Education

What brings me to ICF is the possibility to give back, modestly, to our society all that I have learnt from it, and all good that I take from my experience in education, where we face, many times, the difference and all the difficulties that come from it. It is with huge pride that I am part of this team that moves everyday towards the integration without discrimination, which is essential for a balanced and fair society .

Filipa Luz

Campus & Community Executive Director

João Bento

CEO, CTT

What brings me to ICF is to be able to modestly contribute to what motivates me the most: to be happy and helping others to be happy.

Manuel Schmidt

Administrator, Nova SBE

What brings me to the ICF is a tremendous desire to grow this magnificent project, which has a real and positive impact on the lives of the people it touches. Being able to help provide employment opportunities and a new outlook on life for people with disabilities is highly rewarding, and this project does just that.

Maria Castro e Almeida

Consultant

What brings me to ICF is being part of a project that "makes change happen" in the lives of people with disabilities and in the community.

Joana Castro e Costa

Executive Director of the Nova SBE Leadership for Impact Knowledge Center, Nova SBE

What brings me to ICF is the will to collectively build a more inclusive and more humane Society.

Miguel Carvalho

Founder and CEO, Yubuy

What brings me to ICF is the opportunity to give back with something real so that our community becomes more tolerant, open to diversity and inclusive for everyone, without exception.

Pedro Santa Clara

Director, 42 Lisboa

What brings me to ICF is the opportunity to live our mission as school of being an open and inclusive community, focused innovative projects which aim to solve real problems. A meeting point to societal forces around the world.

Rosa Neto

General Director, CERCICA

What brings me to ICF is to be part of a network that brings together the autarchy, Nova SBE and businessmen, with the joint purpose of improving the living conditions of people with disabilities.

Rui Diniz

CEO, CUF

What brings me to ICF is the willingness to contribute to a more inclusive community for people with disabilities, because I am convinced that this evolution is very important for each of these people, but also allows us to build a better community for all of us.

Former Members of the Advisory Board

Clara Streit

Isabel Almeida e Brito

Miguel Alves Martins

Miguel Pinto Luz

Pedro Mota Soares

Donors Council

The Donors Council is constituted by a group of people that make all the ICF's work possible. Find out who they are and what brought them to this project.
Aside from these donors, we also want to thank one individual donor.