Executive Secretary of the AIR Centre, Alexandra has over 20 years of experience as a secretary of top-level management positions. Her career begun at the National Institute of Agricultural Intervention and Guarantee and on 2007 was the Personal Secretary of Prof. Manuel Heitor, State Secretary of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES), whom she followed at Instituto Superior Técnico in 2011. She was again Personal Secretary of the Minister at MCTES in 2015.