Member of Parliament Carla Castro present at the 1st Liberal Professional Forum

The Member of Parliament from the Liberal Initiative will participate in the panel titled “A Statute for the Liberal Professional?”

In Portugal, despite there being over 430,000 regulated professionals and more than 200,000 engaged in qualified but unregulated professional activities, we observe that liberal professionals lack representation and full defense of their interests, particularly in economic, fiscal, and social protection aspects. These realities will be discussed at the 1st Liberal Professional Forum, taking place on September 23rd at the Almeida Garrett Library Auditorium in the Gardens of the Crystal Palace in Porto.

This event is supported by the Porto City Council. Registration is free and exclusively open to liberal professionals, and it can be completed at https://anpl.pt/forum/inscricao/.

Carla Castro, a professional manager with a career in strategy and marketing in the insurance sector, will be one of the speakers. Over the course of 13 years, she taught at the university in the fields of Strategy and Consumer Behavior, as well as Management Control associated with Strategic Implementation. She also served as a trainer at the Portuguese Academy of Insurance for over 12 years.

In 2019, she suspended all her professional activities to take up the challenge presented by the then-president of the Liberal Initiative (IL) , Carlos Guimarães Pinto. She provided assistance to the party’s sole deputy at the time, João Cotrim de Figueiredo, and worked on establishing the Research Office. She held the position of Vice-President of the IL parliamentary group from March 2022 until May 2023 and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Assembly of the Republic (AR).

As a Member of Parliament, she is part of the Education and Science Committee (vice-President) and the Work, Social Security, and Inclusion Committee. She joined the latter committee in January 2023, following her departure from the Budget and Finance Committee (where she had already coordinated State Budgets (OE) and the Inquiry Commission for Novo Banco as an Advisor, and, as a deputy, for the OE2022 and OE2023).

Carla Castro established and directed the IL Research Office from December 2019 to March 2022. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the Liberal Initiative. In any of her roles, she identifies as a reformist with a liberal vision for the country. With a background in economics, she holds a Doctorate (DBA – ISCTE) with a thesis approved with distinction in applied consumer behavior research, an MBA with a specialization in strategy and marketing, and she characterizes herself as “restlessly constructive”.

For more information about the Forum, you can visit https://anpl.pt/forum/.