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President of Brazil for two terms (between 1995 and 2003).
He has a PhD in Political Sciences and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He is a university professor and writer and was considered by the Library of Congress to be one of the greatest thinkers in the area of political science and sociology in Latin America.
He was in exile during the military dictatorship in Brazil, in Chile in 1964 and then in France, before returning to his country in 1968. He was the founder of the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap). He also taught at Stanford, Cambridge and Paris universities.
He represented São Paulo as a senator for the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) and was one of the founders of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) in 1988. He was a member of the parliament that drafted the Constitution.
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992-1993) and Minister of Finance (1993-1994) in Itamar Franco's government.
He has a PhD Honoris Causa from the University of Coimbra and University of Porto Schools of Economics and from the University of Montreal. He has received the John W. Kluge Award (2012).

Alexandre Soares dos Santos was born in Porto in 1934 and died in Lisbon in August 2019. He attended the Lisbon Law Faculty and began working as a trainee manager at Unilever N.V. in 1957, having had internships in Germany and Ireland. This was the beginning of an international career at Unilever, which included working as Marketing Director for Unilever Brasil between 1964 and 1968. In 1968, he returned to Portugal to join the Board of Directors of Grupo Jerónimo Martins as Delegate-Director, before taking on the role of Chairman of the Executive Committee, which he held along with the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1996 to 2013. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation until his death.

Graduated in Communication and Journalism, with a postgraduate degree in Political Advising and Media. On her way to a master's degree in Political Science at ISCTE.
She assumed the role of digital content manager at the Foundation in October 2023.

Last updated: october 2023

Novelist, essayist and poet.
She did a History course at St Olaf College and got a PhD in English at Columbia University. She has received honorary doctorates from the universities of Oslo and Stendhal-Grenoble and Gutenberg University-Mainz.
Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages, the highlights of these being «The Summer Without Men», «What I Love» and «The Blazing World».

Historian and writer, specialising in modern Greece, 20th century Europe and international history. He is a professor of History at Columbia University.
He studied Classical History and Philosophy at Oxford, International Relations at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Centre and has a PhD in Modern History from Oxford (1988).
He published «Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe» (Allen Lane) in 2008, which won the LA Times Book Prize for History the same year.
His most recent book is «What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home» (Other Press, 2017).

Nuno Félix da Costa: A psychiatrist, he was a professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine (Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychopathology, Psychophysiology, Neurophysiology, Neuroscience).
He has published more than ten books of prose and poetry since 1995. He is the author of four photo books, the last of which was "Portugal was like this", (Cortex Frontal, 2024).
He has had painting, photography and painting on photography exhibits since 1983 in several dozen solo and collective exhibitions.
He was born in Lisbon in 1950.

Last update: october 2024

Journalist, she is a sub-director at Visão magazine and editor at Exame magazine. Throughout her career, she has covered topics related to business, economics, management, human rights, sustainability and innovation.
In 2020, she won the Grand Prize for Economic Journalism for her work «Money is Green», a report on green finance and environmental challenges. She also received an honourable mention in the Human Rights Journalism Award & Integration for covering human dignity issues in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
She is the author of Girl Talk, in Exame magazine, and the Sambando in Lisbon blog in the Estado de São Paulo newspaper.

Last updated: August 2024

He is an environmental engineer with a degree from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a master's degree from Virginia Tech in the United States, and a PhD from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
He is an Associate Professor in the area of the environment at the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCT) and a member of CENSE (Centre for Research into the Environment and Sustainability), part of the CHANGE Associated Laboratory.
President of Associação Zero – Sustainable Earth Association, created in 2015 to advocate for sustainability in Portuguese society.

She is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition – Heritage, Arts and Cultures at Nova University Lisbon.
She has a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the same university, she was a researcher at the National Institute of Agrarian Research between 1976 and 2009 and a visiting professor of Food Sociology at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE) from 1996 to 2003.
She coordinated and co-authored the following works: «Food Tradition and Innovation»; «Nature, Gastronomy & Leisure»; «The Mediterranean Algarve»; «Lives and Voices, of the Sea and of Fish»; «Food, Nature and Landscape».

Last updated: April 2024