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He runs the Teak Capital fund, is a partner in the Horizon Equity Partners fund, vice-chairman of Sonae Indústria, and sits on the board of the Serralves Foundation. He recently stepped down as chairman of the BA Glass group after 22 years running the company.
He has accumulated decades of experience in company management, running dozens of companies in a wide variety of areas - here we name just a few. He was chairman of the Board of Directors of Sonae Retalho Especializado, TVI - Televisão Independente and the Spanish company La Seda de Barcelona. He managed the EDP - Energias de Portugal group and was a member of the board of COTEC Portugal.
He taught at the University of Porto between 1975 and 1987. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto, a master's degree and a doctorate in Management from the University of Warwick, UK.

Last updated: december 2020

Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship at Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland.
He is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization & Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park. Anil is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy, globalization and entrepreneurship.
Ranked by «Thinkers50» as 'one of the world’s most influential living management thinkers', he has also been named by The Economist as one of the world's «superstars» for research on emerging economies, and inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ «Hall of Fame».
He is one of only three professors, out of over 25000 worldwide, to have been elected a Lifetime Fellow of the three most prestigious academic bodies in his field – Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business. He is the author of several best-selling books including «The Quest for Global Dominance», «Getting China and India Right», and «The Silk Road Rediscovered».
Anil Gupta received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Last update: january 2025

Professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE), where he has been teaching since 1999. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Bocconi, Italy, and a Master's Degree in Economics and Management of Science and Technology from the Higher Institute of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon.
He was Director of Economic Analysis and Forecasting Services at the Strategy and Studies Office of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation in 2007 and 2008 and Co-ordinator of the Studies and Evaluation Centre of the NSRF Observatory between 2008 and 2014. He is author of the book «What To Do with This Country – From The Pessimism of Reason To The Optimism of Will» and co-author of the blog «Bicycle Thieves». He is a member of Dinâmica'CET, the Centre for Studies on Socioeconomic Change and Territory. He is a commentator for RTP.

Last updated: April 2017

He is the Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the top 100 World Thinkers in 2011, and a poll conducted by «The Economist» magazine placed him among the most influential economists of the current decade. He is a regular contributor to publications such as «The New York Times», «The Wall Street Journal» and «The Washington Post». His blog, «Marginal Revolution», was named the best economics blog by «The Wall Street Journal», and Cowen was considered one of the 25 best bloggers by Time magazine in its 2013 edition. Tyler Cowen's other publications include «Discover Your Inner Economist», about behavioural economics, and «An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies».

Last updated: June 2015

He is head of the «Net Futures» department at DG CONNECT and in charge of research and innovation on the current Internet architecture, software and services and strategy for the EU's cloud computing system.

Last updated: June 2015

He is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Co-Director of the New Political Communication Unit, which he founded in 2007. He is the author of two major award-winning books – «Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies» and «The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power», both published by Oxford University Press. Chadwick was the founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Digital Politics collection from Oxford University Press.

Last updated: June 2015

CEO of Knowman. During the eight years she lived in London, she was a Knowledge Consultant at Headshift, Knowledge Manager in the UK Ministry of Health agencies and Cultural Change Manager at a major financial institution. She conceived the Citizenship 2.0 event, which she has been co-organising since 2010, and is responsible for the platform of the same name (citizenship20.com) which promotes and boosts projects for using social networks and tools as means of civic dialogue and participation. She collaborates regularly with the São Paulo State Government (Brazil) with whom she co-edited the book «We Can Do It – Knowledge Management and Innovation in the Public Sector» (2014). She also coordinates APDSI's Web 2.0 group.

Coordinating Researcher in the Scientific Employment Stimulus programme at the Institute of Social Sciences.
She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute, Florence, where she won the Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis 1995-98. She was Associate Professor at the Institute of Economic Analysis of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research and Affiliate Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. She was Visiting Researcher at the University of California-Berkeley (2011) and Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Germany (2002-08).

last update: September 2022

He has been Professor at the Graduate Institute in Geneva since 1991 and CEPR President since 2016. He founded the VoxEU.org portal in 2007. As well as being a researcher and teacher, he has advised governments and international organisations around the world on globalisation and trade policy. He was Senior Economist in the Bush Administration's Presidential Council (1990-1991) and did his PhD in economics at MIT with Paul Krugman.