Paula Campos Pinto has a PhD in Sociology from the University of York. Associate Professor at the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon, she founded and coordinates the Disability and Human Rights Observatory which operates at this institution, with the aim of monitoring public policies in the area of disability, as well as promoting information, training and research on the human rights of people with disabilities.
She has coordinated several national and international projects on issues related to the human rights of people with disabilities and the evaluation of public policies, including from a gender perspective. She is the author of several publications on these topics.
