Carla Reis Santos holds a degree in Law, by the University of Lisbons's School of Law (1992) and completed post-graduate courses in european studies (1995) in the same university and in management and financial and budgetary control in NOVA Information Managent School (2018). She has been a Diretor at IGF - Audit Authority since 2017, where she was admitted in 1996. She is the head of projects related to public procurement and financial control.She is also a visiting teacher at NOVA Information Management Schooll since 2017 and a member of the supervisory board of Medical Teaching Hospital of Northern Lisbon. In recent years she was a board member of SPMS - Ministry oh Health Shared Services (state owned enterprise), a Director of legal and litigation services in Inspectorate-General of Cultural Activities, Deputy Director-General at Portuguese Geographic Institute, Diretor of Environmental Monitoring at Regional Development Coordination Commission, Vice President of Civil Protection Services, advisor of the Minister of Internal Affairs and a practising lawyer.