Caroline Dominguez holds a PhD in Socio-Economics from the University of Toulouse-Le-Mirail (France). She is assistant Professor in business/industrial management and a research member at the Didacticts and Technology in Education of Trainees (University of Aveiro) and the Transdisciplinary Development Studies (UTAD) centers. Besides her main research interest on critical thinking education, she publishes on project, quality, human resources and lean management and more recently on tourism governance (ORCID profile). She participates as coordinator or member of national and international funded projects. Before pursuing an academic career, she led organizations dealing with development issues in Peru and Portugal, where she managed various (international) funded projects.