Rui Cunha Marques
Graduated, Post-graduated, MSc, PhD and Postdoc (habilitation), is a Full Professor of the Scientific Area of Systems and Management of Infrastructure in the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geo-resources at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon (IST), Portugal. He is a researcher of the Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability of IST (CERIS / CESUR), of the Public Utility Research Center (PURC) at the University of Florida and of the Center of Local Government (CLG) at the University of New England in Australia, where he is a Visiting Professor at the Business School. His areas of expertise include regulation of public services, performance assessment, project management, procurement, particularly public-private partnerships and infrastructure services. He is the author of over 600 scientific publications in several countries, including 13 books and two theses and more than 230 referred journal articles.He also produced more than 400 technical reports. Currently he is a consultant of the World Bank and in the past he collaborated with other international organisations, such as the European Investment Bank, the European Union, the United Nations and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, as well as with other government entities and public and private companies from several countries. He has developed work in more than 50 countries in the five continents.
Contacts:
Universidade de Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico
Departament of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources
Av. Rovisco Pais
1049-001 Lisbon
Portugal
T: +351218418305
Email:
rui.marques@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
Skype:
rdcmarques
AREAS OF INTEREST
Regulation; Benchmarking; Public Policies; PPPs; Privatizations; Local Public Services; Infrastructure; Water; Solid Waste; Transport.
NEWS | EVENTS
Systems & Management Seminars
Radical reassemblages: the life history of a Nile delta pumping collective | Dr. Edwin Rap
29 June 2022
Análise exploratória da aplicação de indicadores de governança da água em bacias hidrográficas com base no protocolo OGA e princípios da OCDE – estudo comparativo entre casos do Brasil e Portugal | Profª Mirella Motta e Costa
8 July 2022
AWARDS
IWA (international Water Association) Prize Awarded for academic and scientific career
"In more than 20 years of academic dedication he carried out an honorable, respected and successful career with more than 400 scientific publications including books, theses and more than 160 refereed journal articles. Drive and motivation are enormous. Also a lot of knowledge, share and wisdom in the aim of the regulation, procurement and performance evaluation of infrastructure services".
CERIS / CESUR - Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability - IST
PURC - Public Utility Research Center
CLG - Centre for Local Government
New Books
Temas de Direito da Água - Vol. 2 | Faculdade de Direito
Direito do Saneamento - Vol. 2 | Faculdade de Direito
New Articles
Stormwater Utilities: A Sustainable Answer to Many Questions. Sustainability | IF: 3.251
Intermunicipal cooperation through regional consortia in Brazil: An analysis of transactions costs and their impact on sanitation services. Utilities Policy | IF: 3.247
Attracting the private sector to urban stormwater: A feasible task or just a pipe dream? Water. MDPI | IF: 3.530
Public policy: urban stormwater in a paradigm shift, is it the end or just the beginning. Water Science and Technology. | IF: 1.915
An evaluation of the financials sustainability of remote Australian local councils. Economic Papers. A journal of applied economics and policy.
Policies and incentives for developing universal access to water and sanitation for vulnerable families. Water Policy. | IF: 1.434
From a millennium to a sustainable water and sanitation development: Were we there already?. AQUA - Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society | IF: 1.644
Performance and its determinants in the Portuguese municipal solid waste utilities. Waste Management | IF: 7.145
Technical and scale efficiency of the Brazilian municipalities’ water and sanitation services: A two-Stage Data Envelopment Analysis. Sustainability | IF: 3.251
Is sunshine regulation the new prescription to brighten up public hospitals in Portugal? Socio-Economic Planning Sciences |
IF: 4.923
Presentations
Estado da arte da fiscalização do abastecimento de água e esgotamento sanitário no Brasil. Seminário Estado da Arte da Fiscalização do Abastecimento de Água e Esgotamento Sanitário no Brasil, AGERSA, Bahia (Brazil), December 2021
The multicriteria satisfaction analysis (MUSA): A tool to improve the customer satisfaction in the tourism sector. I Congreso Internacional de Turismo: Nuevas tendencias y desafos ante un escenario post-covid, Melilla (Spain), November 2021