Capt. José Manuel Malhão Pereira,éManuelMalhã ComSE, born on 12 November 1940 in Loures (Lisbon), is a retired officer (Captain of Sea and War) of the Portuguese Navy, and a worldwide known scholar of nautical sciences. On 10 June 2013 he was awarded the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword. He is a member of the Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (), at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon; and also an advisor to the ERC RUTTER Project. Malhão Pereira was for a long time a professor at the Navy School, and from 1989 to 1993, Commander of the Sagres, school ship of the Portuguese Navy.
In addition to the Academia de Marinha, the Lisbon Geographic Society and other learned societies in Portugal, Capt. Malhão Pereira is a life member of the Kannur University Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (IRISH).