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In 2002, he created the group «The Republic of Ideas», which he chairs. In 1978, he took charge of the Sociology department at the Travail et Societé centre created by Jacques Delors at the University of Paris-Dauphine. Since 1978, he has been Professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales and Director of Studies, a position he still holds. Since the 1990s, he has devoted himself to documenting the intellectual history of democracy in France. In 2001, he was appointed Professor at the Collège de France.

He is a national Poetry Slam champion and a multi-platinum songwriter, writing to entertain, inspire and challenge listeners. Many of his poetry videos have gone viral, with over 50 million total views. His extraordinary performances include: selling out one of the largest poetry shows in Los Angeles history, being the first spoken word artist to perform with Cirque du Soleil and being featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam by A&E's Look Closer campaign. Organisations such as Google, Facebook, IBM, Nike, Spotify and Shazam have invited him to give motivational workshops on creativity and storytelling.

Born in Massachusetts, he is the son of an Italian mother and a Canadian father. He attended university in Maine and Massachusetts (Amherst), and currently lives between Cape Cod and Hawaii. He has taught in Italy, Malawi, Uganda, Singapore and the UK. He has written dozens of novels, essays and some of the best travel books ever, such as «The Old Patagonian Express», «Ghost Train to the Orient», «Deep South and «The Great Railway Bazaar».

Professor of Economics and holder of the Ford Chair at MIT. He is also Co-Director of the NBER Labor Studies Programme, the MIT Task Force on Work of the Future and the experimental JPAL Work of the Future Initiative. His research explores the impacts of the technological revolution and globalisation on the labour market, specifically job polarization, demands and skills, income levels and inequalities, and electoral outcomes. He has received several awards for his academic studies – the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Award for Outstanding Contributions to Labor Economics, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019 – and also for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. Most recently, Autor received the Heinz 25th Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his contribution to «transforming our perception of how globalisation and the technological revolution are impacting the jobs and wage prospects of American workers.« In 2017, Bloomberg recognised him as one of the 50 people who have defined the world of business on a global scale. And in 2019, the Economist magazine labelled him «The academic voice of the American worker». Later that year, and with (at least) equal justification, he was dubbed the «Twerpy MIT Economist» by John Oliver of Last Week Tonight, in a segment on automation and employment.

He was born in Bombarral in 1963. He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from ISE and he is a teacher and journalist. He was a correspondent for the Diário de Notícias and wrote for Sábado, Dirigir and Le Rail magazines. He has worked at the Público since 1991 and is Deputy Director of Gazeta das Caldas.

Last updated: February 2017

She is a journalist at the «Público» newspaper, which she joined in 2009 and where she still works. She was part of the founding team of P3.

Last updated: January 2024

A writer, illustrator, musician and filmmaker, he was born in Figueira da Foz and attended António Arroio School and the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon, before moving to Madeira, where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts.
An award-winning author in several genres, with about 30 books to his credit, he has also worked as an illustrator in dozens of fiction works for children, textbooks, the press and advertising.
In 2006 he co-founded the band The Soaked Lamb, winner of the Portuguese Revelation Band Award at the Cáceres Pop Arte Festival 2011, where he is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer and lyricist.
He has directed more than 200 films, including animation and advertising campaigns, and worked as an animator on several films and series for children. The short film «Two Diaries and a Tile Panel», which he co-directed in 2008, was shown at several international festivals and won two honourable mentions and an audience award. The many distinctions he has received throughout his career, include the Fernando Namora Prize (2015), the European Union Prize for Literature (2012), the 2011 SPA/RTP Authors Award and the National Illustration Award (2014).
He travels extensively and has visited close to 60 countries, but 11 years ago he left Lisbon and moved to the hills in a national agricultural reserve in the Alentejo, where he lives and makes his own beer.

Last updated: May 2019

Composer, sound designer, acoustic communication specialist and professor at the School of Social and Human Sciences (NOVA-FCSH).
He is a founding member of the Portuguese Acoustic Society.
He studied with R. Murray Schafer and Barry Truax and, under the guidance of the latter, completed his Master's Degree in Interactive Hypermedia Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
As a composer and sound designer, his work focuses mainly on theatre, video and interactive technologies.
He has written several plays and musicals. He was a programmer for the music and sound arts area at «Coimbra, National Capital of Culture 2003» and assistant to Constança Capdeville, with whom he collaborated in several works.

Last updated: September 2024

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».

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).