António Sampaio Ramos

Principal Consultant

Offices: Portugal

Email: antonio.ramos@technopolis-group.com

António Sampaio Ramos is Principal Consultant at Technopolis Portugal. He is a public policy expert with 30 years of experience in the design, programming and implementation of public policies.

His core competences include strategic planning, policy evaluation and multi-level governance. He applies these across various policy fields, with a particular thematic focus on territorial cohesion, regional and local development, and regional innovation strategies, including smart specialisation strategies.

Before joining Technopolis Portugal, António held several senior management and advisory positions across national and regional public sector bodies. Most recently, he served as Adviser at the Office of the Secretary of State for Regional Development and later at the Office of the Minister of Territorial Cohesion. In this capacity, he was actively involved in the national team responsible for programming and negotiating the EU Cohesion Policy for 2021-2027.

Previously, he was Head of the Regional Policy Unit at the Portuguese Agency for Development and Cohesion, where he led research and analysis on cohesion policy, coordinated national monitoring of Smart Specialisation Strategies and oversaw multilevel governance and public policy evaluation initiatives. He also coordinated the drafting of Portugal’s first Development and Cohesion Report.

At the regional level, António worked at the Algarve Regional Coordination and Development Commission, first as Head of the Unit of Regional Studies and the Algarve Regional Dynamics Observatory, where he led socioeconomic diagnostics and regionally impactful projects, and later as a Technical Officer in the Managing Authority for the Algarve Operational Programme (ERDF and ESF).

During this period, he coordinated the development of the Algarve 2020 regional strategy and the region’s first Smart Specialisation Strategy.

In addition to his public sector roles, he has experience in academia, having worked as a researcher and guest assistant lecturer at the University of Lisbon.

António holds a master’s degree in Human Geography and Regional and Local Planning from the University of Lisbon. He is a native Portuguese speaker and has working proficiency in English.