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), 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 240 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
Engineering Asset Management | Prof. Nuno Almeida (IST)
20 December 2022
Essays on Priorization Investment in Large-Scale Public Infrastructure in Angola | Amaro Ricardo (PhD student)
22 Novembro 2022
AWARDS
2022 | University of Lisbon/Caixa Geral de Depósitos Awards | Economics and Management
The University of Lisbon (ULisboa), with the support of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, awards annual “University of Lisbon/Caixa Geral de Depósitos Scientific Awards”, which aim to reward scientific research activity and encourage the practice of publication in international journals of recognized quality.
2022 | World's Top 2% Scientist
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- Career Long Impact
- Single Year 2021
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 Book Chapters
PPP hospitals in Portugal: what does benchmarking tell us about their relative performance? In: Assessing the Performance Advantage of Public-Private Partnerships. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Revisiting the theory on the regulation of water utilities: Evolution, challenges and trends. In: Routledge Handbook of Urban Water Governance. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
New Articles
Measuring the SDGs in Refugee Camps: An Insight into Arab States Bordering Syria. Sustainability | IF: 3.889
A geometric aggregation of performance indicators considering regulatory constraints: An application to the urban solid waste management. Expert Systems With Applications | IF: 8.665
Aedes Aegypti—Insights on the Impact of Water Services. GeoHealth | IF: 6.34
Outsourcing through intermunicipal co-operation: waste collection and treatment services in Brazil. Public Money & Management |IF. 3.040
Public-Private Partnerships in the Urban Regeneration projects: a review. Journal of Urban Planning and Development| IF: 2.317
Institutional paradigm shift: transitions in stormwater management principles. Environmental Science and Pollution Research | IF: 5.190
A network Data Envelopment Analysis to estimate nations’ efficiency in the fight against SARS-CoV-2. Expert Systems With Applications | IF: 9.602
Measuring what matters in local government: a municipality sustainability index. Policy Studies | IF: 2.152
Water Value Integrated Approach: A Systematic Literature Review. Water. MDPI | IF: 3.530
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