EGINA PIRES DE BRITO – Post-Doctorate at the University of Minho (Braga-Portugal), PhD and Master in Linguistics from FFLCH-USP. Adjunct Professor III at the Center for Communication and Literature at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM). Coordinator of DINTER-CAPES Mackenzie – National University of Timor-Leste (2022-2025). Coordinator of the Dean of Extension and Culture at UPM (since 2022). Coordinator of the Tordesilhas Doctoral College in Languages, Societies and Cultures (since 2018). She was Coordinator of the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program in Letters at UPM (PPGL-2017- 2022). Leader of the GP CNPq-Mackenzie - Culture and Linguistic Identity in Lusofonia; Deputy leader of GP CNPq-Mackenzie - Paulo Freire's pedagogical discourse: a reading. Member of the Virtual Museum of Lusofonia (Portugal). Member of CPCLP - Commission for the Promotion of Content in Portuguese Language, of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries|Brazilian Book Chamber. Full Member of the ANPOLL Board of Directors. Member of the ABRALIN Public Policy Commission, Researcher at CLEPUL - Center for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, member of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Linguistics of Timor-Leste, of the Historiography GT of ANPOLL . He has dedicated himself to Portuguese-speaking themes since 2001, with special attention to Portuguese language policies, varieties of Portuguese, linguistic-cultural identity of Timor-Leste, where he has been developing projects for two decades.