Prof. Dr. Filipe de Castro Soeiro

Prof. Dr. Filipe Castro Soeiro is a senior international multidisciplinary academic, administrator and executive leader C-level with 25+ years of experience in growth and innovation strategies who is market driven and oriented to purposive transformation and sustainable societal change impacts. He is an avid learner, holding five degrees and three post-graduation programs in STEM fields of knowledge. His applied research studies intersect digital technologies, economic and education policy making and innovation management. He is innovator, entrepreneur, professor and researcher with deep understanding of for-profit and non-profit higher education, education technology and executive training, and senior executive in multiple technology, industry, market and business life cycles. He is expert in digitalization strategy, higher education, regional innovation systems, innovation management, design thinking, technology monitoring, digital business and marketing, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, digital health, applied chemistry, smart cities and regional innovation systems applied to several fields in the context of society 5.0. He is well experienced in leading start-up, transformation and growth in higher education and business organizations in Europe, China and U.S. He has been driven successful navigation in complex and thriving Higher Education institutions (including Triple Crown Accredited and ranked on Financial Times) and corporate business ecosystems (listed in Fortune 500) in multiple leading board executive and board adviser roles. He has been leading and managing multi-business university units and multi-programme lines of business, as well as the design and development of campus, blended and online teaching & learning technologies and methodologies, academic development, academic and student affairs, accreditation, applied research, internationalization and corporate industry linkages.
He started practicing and studying Okinawa Goju-Ryu Karate Do in 1984 in IOGKF, founded by Master Morio Higaonna, 10th Dan. He was over ten years President of the Board of Directors of AKDK, an Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate Do Association in Portugal, member of GKI, an international federation led by Sensei James Rosseau, 9th Dan and also held the role of Adviser to the President of FNK-P, the National Karate Federation Portugal. He is the President and Dojo Head of Okinawa Goju-Ryu Karate Do Berlin e.V., and associated member of IOGKF Germany, holding a Black Belt 3.Dan IOGKF and DKV, and a A-Trainer License in Okinawa Goju-Ryu Karate Do.Prof. Dr. Filipe Castro Soeiro is a senior international multidisciplinary academic, administrator and executive leader C-level with 25+ years of experience in growth and innovation strategies who is market driven and oriented to purposive transformation and sustainable societal change impacts. He is an avid learner, holding five degrees and three post-graduation programs in STEM fields of knowledge. His applied research studies intersect digital technologies, economic and education policy making and innovation management. He is innovator, entrepreneur, professor and researcher with deep understanding of for-profit and non-profit higher education, education technology and executive training, and senior executive in multiple technology, industry, market and business life cycles. He is expert in digitalization strategy, higher education, regional innovation systems, innovation management, design thinking, technology monitoring, digital business and marketing, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, digital health, applied chemistry, smart cities and regional innovation systems applied to several fields in the context of society 5.0. He is well experienced in leading start-up, transformation and growth in higher education and business organizations in Europe, China and U.S. He has been driven successful navigation in complex and thriving Higher Education institutions (including Triple Crown Accredited and ranked on Financial Times) and corporate business ecosystems (listed in Fortune 500) in multiple leading board executive and board adviser roles. He has been leading and managing multi-business university units and multi-programme lines of business, as well as the design and development of campus, blended and online teaching & learning technologies and methodologies, academic development, academic and student affairs, accreditation, applied research, internationalization and corporate industry linkages. He started practicing and studying Okinawa Goju-Ryu Karate Do in 1984 in IOGKF, founded by Master Morio Higaonna, 10th Dan. He was over ten years President of the Board of Directors of AKDK, an Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate Do Association in Portugal, member of GKI, an international federation led by Sensei James Rosseau, 9th Dan and also held the role of Adviser to the President of FNK-P, the National Karate Federation Portugal. He is the President and Dojo Head of Okinawa Goju-Ryu Karate Do Berlin e.V., and associated member of IOGKF Germany, holding a Black Belt 3.Dan IOGKF and DKV, and a A-Trainer License in Okinawa Goju-Ryu Karate Do.