CATÓLICA-LISBON is the leading school in Executive Education in Portugal. It is also the fastest riser in the Financial Times ranking for Executive Education, currently sitting as the 24th best School in the world. Kellogg School of Management is one of the most reputed North American Business Schools, with an exceptional track-record in its Executive Programs. Together, the two schools designed an elite program targeted at top-level executives, with sessions in Lisbon and Chicago. This program provides a 360-degree view of the art and science of management, with emphasis on critical areas for executives at the very top of their organizations.
The previous twelve editions of the program were highly evaluated by their participants, who emphasized that the program combined exposure to new ideas and challenges, teaching excellence, and high-quality discussion in an atmosphere conducive to interaction and collaboration.
The thirteenth edition of the Program will take place in 2024: 6 - 10 May (Lisbon) and 26 - 31 May (Chicago). Participants come from the highest levels of management, including executive members of the Board. Participants are expected to contribute intensely to classroom debates and should be willing to enrich the quality of the discussion by sharing their experiences, approaches and perspectives.
Sérgio Rebelo
Program Director
MUFG Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance at the Kellogg School of Management, where he has served as Chair of the Finance Department. He has published widely in macroeconomics and international finance and has won numerous research and teaching awards, including Kellogg’s Professor of the Year Award. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the European Central Bank, the McKinsey Global Institute, and the Global Markets Institute at Goldman Sachs. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester. He was an undergraduate in Economics at CATÓLICA-LISBON, where he also served as Director of the Finance MBA program.
Céline Abecassis-Moedas
Program Director
Dean for Executive Education, founder and Academic Director of the Center for Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Associate Professor (with aggregation) in Strategy and Innovation Management at CATÓLICA-LISBON. She holds a Ph.D. in Management Studies from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, a Master in Scientific Methods of Management (DEA), from Dauphine University and a BA in Economics and Business Administration from Ecole Normale Supérieure and La Sorbonne, Paris. She was an International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management in 2011-12. Before joining Católica, Céline was an Assistant Professor at Queen Mary-University of London. She also worked in business development in a software company in New York and in management consulting at AT Kearney in London. She has published widely in the areas of strategy, innovation and design management. Céline is also non-executive director at CUF, Vista Alegre Atlantis and Lectra..