Milton Sousa is Associate Professor Adjunct and Academic Director of the CEMS MIM at NOVA School of Business and Economics. Previously, he was Director of the MBA Programs at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Milton currently also serves as President of the Estoril Institute for Global Dialogue, a think tank dedicated to globalization and local change. He chaired 3 editions of the Estoril Conferences, a large international forum on globalization that gathers renowned world leaders from business, academia and public sector. In that quality he has worked with the United Nations, World Bank, European Commission, NATO, and several world-class universities.

In business, Milton founded Leaders2Be, an organization that he ran for 5 years offering leadership development programs. He worked in various research and management positions, including Royal Philips Electronics, and as a strategy and management consultant at Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação and the Hay Group.

Milton is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer on the topics of leadership and organizational behavior in several universities and business schools.

Current research interests include:  Servant leadership; Meaning in work and organizations; Complex Adaptive Systems; Innovation