Alexandra was born in Porto, and married with three children.

She holds a graduate degree in Law from the Portuguese Catholic University (Porto School of Law), a Master’s in Administrative Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, and a PhD in Development, Societies and Territories from the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, co-supervised by the Portuguese Catholic University – Porto School of Law.

She has been the Director of Services at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (Polytechnic Institute of Porto) since 2007 responsible for legal planning, quality and evaluation. She is also the President of the private non-profit GrowgreenFood Association since 2018. For several years, she was a trainer for the Administrative Procedure Code module as part of the “School Administration-Oriented Technical Development” project. She has been a member of several private and public tender boards. She has given a number of national and international seminars and published in various national and international journals.

Main Publications:

Ribeiro, A., Madureira, L. & Carvalho, R. (2023). Evidence on how urban gardens help citizens and cities to enhance sustainable development. Review and bibliometric analysis. Landscape and Urban Planning,
236 (104766), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104766

Ribeiro, A., Madureira, L. & Carvalho, R. (2021) More urban gardens, less food waste: Innovative ways to achieve SDGs. In: The Role of Law in Governing Sustainability, Mauerhofer, V. (ed) Routledge, pp. 118–133

Ribeiro, A., Carvalho, R., Madureira, L. (2020). Establishing Urban Gardens on Vacant Land While Considering International Good Practices: A Legal Case Study from Portugal. In: Mauerhofer, V., Rupo, D., Tarquinio, L. (eds) Sustainability and Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42630-9_35

Ribeiro, A., (2018). A nova geração de hortas urbanas. Conferência Internacional de Ambiente em Língua Portuguesa – Ambiente e Direitos humanos. 8-10, May 2018. Aveiro, Portugal

Main Projects:

Project Advisor for preparing the research proposal for “Science4Policy 2023 (S4P-23): Concurso de Estudos de Ciência para as Políticas Públicas” (October 2023)

Project Member of Daughters of Themis, organised several seminars and publications related to law and women

President of Growgreen Food Association, co-ordinated various projects linked to the environment, healthy eating and the social economy, most recently producing information posters for secondary schools on the circular economy, a project co-authored with the Vila Real Ecological Agency