SPOF’ president, Manuel Filipe Costa, was elected by unanimity ad-clamare President of Red(e) Iberoamericana de Optica, RIAO, for the term 2019-2022, assuming office at the last RIAO/OPTILAS conference that most successfully toke place in Cancun, Mexico, September 23 to 27, 2019. After the rather successful organization of the RIAO/OPTILAS2013 meeting in Porto back in 2013, the contribution of the Portuguese Optics and Photonics community is again recognized by the Iberoamerican O&P community. At the General Assembly of RIAO, held September 25, 2019, in Cancun, Argentina was also unanimously accepted as new member of RIAO.