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He is Professor of Legal Business Studies at Harvard Law School and at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. He has played a crucial role in characterising the function of the information commons and decentralised collaboration for innovation, information production and freedom in the networked economy and society. He has advised governments and international organisations on innovation and telecommunications policy and sits on the boards of directors or advisory boards of several non-profit organisations.

Last updated: November 2023

Philosopher, jurist and social theorist, he is Professor at Harvard Law School and was twice Minister of the Secretariat of Strategic Affairs of the Presidency of Brazil. He studied at Harvard University, where he completed an LL.M (Master of Laws) and an S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Legal and Social Sciences from the Law Faculty of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has published dozens of works on democracy and politics.

Last updated: November 2023

A French philosopher, he is a professor of philosophy at the University of Grenoble and one of the European thinkers who has most influenced social analysis. He was a member of the French National Council for School Programmes and a member of the Society Analysis Council with the French Prime Minister. He is a consultant to the French Association for Management Progress.

Last updated: November 2023

He is a researcher at the University of Lisbon, where he returned after a long career by universities in Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. He was responsible for the creation of the Coa Archaeological Park and its classification as World Heritage, and for the discovery of the «Lapedo Child». He was founder and director of the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology. The humanised image we have of neanderthals today is largely due to the results of the research that he conducted or fostered in deposits in Portugal, Spain and Romania.

She was born in 1982 and did competitive swimming and then the triathlon until 1999, when she went to the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon, where she got a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Design. She was in college when she became a finalist for the Young Creators Prize in Literature. Her first novel came out in 2009 and won the Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho Award. Since then she has published novels, short stories and children's books. She has a PhD in Cultural Studies and also writes for dance and theatre.
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Last updated: September 2023.

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Última atualização: maio 2023

Ricardo Borges de Castro is a European and global affairs analyst with more than 25 years’ experience in international relations, public policies and the strategic perspective. He is a guest columnist at Sábado magazine, a senior adviser at the European Policy Centre (EPC) and a senior non-resident fellow for the strategic perspective at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP).
His areas of interest focus on geopolitics, the international role of the EU and the future of Europe, transatlantic relations and global trends and scenarios.
He was a visiting researcher at the College of Europe from April to December 2024 and associate director and director of the Europe in the World project at the EPC, a think tank based in Brussels.
He was a Member of Cabinet under José Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission, and held positions in the office of the Prime Minister and in the Portuguese parliament.
He has a Master's in Arts (MALD) from the Fletcher School and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford (St Antony's College).

Last updated: april 2026

She has a degree in psychology from the University of Lisbon's FPCE, studied film studies at Lisbon's ESTC, worked for RTP and, as a director for SIC, attended a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) course in TV Production.
She was a director for SIC from 1992 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2003 she completed the Advanced Programme in Political Journalism at the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2008, she was a documentaries advisor to RTP's Programme Direction. In March 2018, she unanimously received her PhD in contemporary history, specialising in empires, colonialism and post-colonialism, earning a distinction and praise for her work. In 2007, she was awarded the Lusophony Grand Prize for the documentary «The Prodigious Writer», a film about the life of Jorge de Sena, which she wrote and directed. In 2018 she was awarded the Fernando de Sousa prize by the European Commission for her work directing and co-authoring the screenplay for the 6-film documentary series Europa 30, shown on RTP2. In 2021 she premiered the documentary «Visions of Empire» at the DocLisboa festival, which she also directed and wrote.

last update: January 2023

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Studies and a Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems, she worked as a producer of content for radio and television, directed documentaries and wrote fiction scripts. She is a founding member and vice-president of the Circular Economy Portugal association – CEP.