Isabel is currently Vice-President of the Justice Financial and Equipment Management Institute in Portugal.

Until April 2022, she worked in the European Commission (DG GROW - Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) for 6 years, first as a Policy Officer and later as a Team Leader in the field of Digital Procurement and Digital Transformation of Public Procurement. 

She has a PhD in governance frameworks for Digital Transformation in the Public Sector, a specialisation in National Defence and a degree in Applied Mathematics.

She has more than 30 years' experience in ICT and Public Administration management mainly in management positions including Deputy Secretary-General of the Ministry of the Public Works, Transport and Communications and Chairman of the ICT Committee in the same Ministry in Portugal.

She worked both in the Portuguese and Macau's Public Sector, in the area of taxes, defence, social housing, public works, public procurement, among others.  She also has more than 13 years' experience in public procurement electronic systems and has been one of the lecturers of the electronic Public Procurement module in the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Belgrade.