Mara Ribeiro Duarte

She holds a law degree, with a specialisation in Legal and Economic Sciences, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

She spent much of her career as a consultant to banks, in process and contract management. For ten years she worked at SIBS Processos, an interbank services company, in business process outsourcing (BPO): she supervised operational areas, was responsible for operational continuous improvement and introduced the Kaizen and Lean Management methodology across all of the company's operations.

In April 2022 she joined Closer, a technology company working in data, artificial intelligence and advanced analytics, where she is now Head of Public Sector. She is directly responsible for managing and selling the +transparente platform, built for the requirements of whistleblower protection in Portugal, which gives obliged entities a back office for managing investigations.

In recent years she has specialised in public procurement, in solutions for procurement management, compliance, risk management and the prevention of corruption. She is part of the multidisciplinary team of Procurai, an artificial intelligence platform for managing public procurement, where she is responsible for its public procurement law. At Procurelex she coordinates the legal review of the content; the methodology page says which pages have been reviewed so far.