Manuel Collares-Pereira

EEF Trustee

Foto Manuel Collares-Pereira

Board of Trustees

Portugal

International Energy Agency (IEA) Solar Heating and Cooling Award

Manuel Collares Pereira is Full Professor at the University of Évora, Chair BES Renewable Energies, Director of IPES-Instituto Português de Energia Solar, founder and President of SUN AID and consultant of DeViris. Author of “Energias Renováveis – a Opção Inadiável”, co-author and editor of other books, author of more than 180 scientificc papers and over a dozen patents. Up to 2006, he was Coordinator Researcher at INETI, simultaneously pursuing an University career- professorship. Also Founder and twice President of Centro para a Conservação de Energia and President of ACTD - Associação de Ciência e Tecnologia para o Desenvolvimento. He represented the Portuguese Government in high level Steering Committees for European Union Renewable.