Mónica Correia, born in December 1971, boasts a diverse educational background. She holds a Law degree in Legal Sciences from Universidade Portucalense (LLM equiv.) and a PhD in Bioethics from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Porto (FMUP), where her research focused on Health Data Protection. Additionally, she completed a postgraduate degree in Planning, Urbanism, and Environmental Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of Coimbra. Her academic achievements include a Master's degree in Public Administration (excluding dissertation), specialising in Public Management, from the School of Economics and Management at the University of Minho. She also pursued doctoral studies in Management (excluding thesis), focusing on Organisation and Human Resources, at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto.
Her professional journey commenced as a lawyer, practising until 2005.
In 2003, she transitioned to the Municipality of Porto as a legal consultant, later assuming the role of head of the Municipal Mobility and Change Management Division until 2010.
In 2011, Mónica joined the University of Porto, where she initially led the Human Resources and Dispatch Service of the Rectory.
From May 2013 to April 2016, she was a 2nd-degree middle manager in the Human Resources Recruitment Unit (URRH) within the University's Shared Services.
Concurrently, she also served as a professional trainer in administrative law.
Between 2016 and 2021, she was FMUP's 1st degree middle manager, coordinating the Academic, Administrative and Legal Services.
In 2021, she assumed the role of a 1st-degree middle manager at the Legal Consultancy and Data Protection Unit, also serving as the Data Protection Officer at FMUP. On February 15, 2023, these responsibilities were suspended under Organic Law no. 4/2019, September 13, having been invested in the functions of a Member of the Entity for Transparency (EfT) (an independent agency that operates within the Constitutional Court of Portugal), an activity she currently carries out.
From 2019 to 2023, she also acted as a legal advisor to the Council of Portuguese Medical Schools and from 2021 to 2025 as a member of the Ethics Committee of FMUP.