About Raquel Pimentel
Raquel Pimentel, a native of Mafra, Portugal, is a Chief Communications Officer (CCO at TELENIMA) and a specialist in media, ICT and informational resilience. She holds degrees from the University of Lisbon (ULisboa) and the University of Barcelona, and is currently conducting doctoral research. Since 2016, she has dedicated herself to communication governance and the safeguarding of institutional identity, primarily in complex institutional environments.
Her professional activity combines communication management with executive advisory, regulatory alignment, and data protection compliance (GDPR). She has extensive experience in high-responsibility public and private sectors where rigorous message control is vital.
In today's organisations, corporate communication plays a central and structural role. In the face of technological acceleration, regulatory demands, and information overload, managing communication means safeguarding strategic coherence, mitigating risks, and sustaining organisational legitimacy before society.
It is with this vision that Raquel Pimentel transforms communication into a vector of stability. Her practice goes beyond traditional rhetoric, designing risk analysis systems and protecting institutional integrity in unstable or sensitive environments.
In a landscape where public exposure is immediate but actual understanding is scarce, leading communication becomes a decisive factor. When dealing with the communication of sovereignty, culture, and causes of superior interest, efficient and serious institutions know that their role is not merely to broadcast data, but to ensure the clarity and reliability of information where integrity and truth are the foundations.
In parallel, her career has consolidated in the direct and energetic response to the threats of cybercrime and synthetic information manipulation within the scope of digital security. In this context, she has coordinated cross-sector initiatives to raise cybersecurity standards, mitigate disinformation campaigns, and contain vulnerabilities, collaborating directly with strategic decision-makers and institutional partners on an international scale.
Areas of Expertise
Her core areas of expertise include:
– Strategic management of institutional communication, focused on executive alignment, safeguarding of identity, and corporate coherence.
– Control and calibration of institutional messaging in critical and highly volatile scenarios.
– Systemic oversight of informational risks, focused on institutional integrity, impact analysis, and communication contingency response.
– Development of institutional resilience, ensuring communication continuity and the protection of organisational identity.
– Regulatory compliance and data governance, focusing on the practical application of GDPR and the auditing of privacy policies.
– Countering systemic manipulation and disinformation through early diagnosis and the neutralisation of informational threats in international fora.
– Information ethics and digital responsibility, materialised in the leadership of cross-sector projects in cybersecurity and media literacy.
– Investigation, evidence analysis, and computer forensics, including the preparation of expert reports focused on legal evidence for judicial proceedings.
Principles & Ethical Values
Raquel Pimentel's unwavering ethical values form the foundation of her conduct, reflected in both her professional and personal life. Guided by high discipline, her approach is based on the principle that when reputation stems from the inherent nobility of action, communication does not create value artificially. Instead, it acts as a regulatory and security shield that reinforces defence, compliance, rigour, and safeguarding, while preventing vulnerabilities in critical situations.
Distanced from the logic of consumer marketing, mass persuasion, or traditional corporate cosmetics, this pattern of conduct is reflected in the rigorous selection of the organizations she represents and the partnerships she establishes, whose collaboration, in its very genesis, presupposes a strict and mutual alignment of values, ethical principles, and standards of excellence. The foundations of this commitment to integrity are manifest in the Section on Principles & Ethical Values.
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Academic Background & Languages
- Licentiate Degree, Postgraduate Studies & Specializations, PhD Candidate
- Languages: Portuguese (native), English, Spanish
Industry Expertise
Audiovisual, Media, Public and Private Sectors
