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Senior Media Analyst at Oban International, she has also worked as a teacher and translator. She began her career as a freelance sound technician.

Last updated: November 2023

President of the Local Accommodation Association in Portugal and Non-Executive President of the European Holiday Home Association since 2022.

Last updated: May 2023

CEO of the Casais Engineering and Construction Group, an organisation he was maintained ties with throughout his career. He is a member of the Strategic Board of the Institute for Science and Innovation for Bio-sustainability, Business Ambassador for the city of Braga, a member of the Advisory Board of the Civil Engineering course at the University of Minho and a member of the Board of Directors of the Waste Recovery Centre (CVR) (subsidiary of the University of Minho).
He holds a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minho, where he also attended the MBA Construction Specialization Course. He runs an Owner/President Management Programme at Harvard Business School.

Last updated: May 2023

Chairman of the Board of SACHE – Solidarity and Friendship, Affordable Housing Co-operative. This cooperative was founded in 1978 in Porto by a group of «friends», some connected to fine arts and architecture, concerned about the lack of quality housing at fair prices for large sectors of the Portuguese population.

Last update: May 2023

He has a PhD in economics and is Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His work addresses urbanism and population, transport infrastructure, pollution and public policy.

Last updated: May 2023

He is a member of the National Education Council in an advisory capacity on education policy. He served as President of the Porto Academic Federation until 2023.
He is currently studying a Master's Degree in Consumer Sciences and Nutrition at the University of Porto.

Last updated: January 2024

President of the Portuguese Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors. He has a law degree from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and was Senior Associate in the Real Estate, Construction and Tourism Department at the law firm Cuatrecasas, which he left in 2014.

Last updated: May 2023

Geographer, holding a PhD in Geography and Territorial Planning from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) of the New University of Lisbon. He is Professor at NOVA FCSH, Coordinator of the Department of Geography and Regional Planning and Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA).
His research focuses on housing policies, real estate market dynamics, urban public policies, urban geography, spatial planning and urban studies. He has published various studies in these fields, in addition to conducting diverse knowledge dissemination activities, such as coordinating scientific projects and curating exhibitions.

Last updated: July 2023

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo is an associate professor of History at the University of Coimbra Centre for the History of Society and Culture. His research interests focus on the global, connected and comparative history of imperialism and of colonialism (19th-20th century).
Miguel publishes regularly in the foremost publishers and journals, both in Portugal and abroad. He recently co-authored «História(s) do Presente» (2020, Tinta-da-China) and coordinated «Os Mundos do (Sub)Desenvolvimento» (2023, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra).
He has a PhD in History from King’s College London.

Last updated: August 2025

An economist with a master's degree in quantitative methods (Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, FEP-UP), he launched and coordinated the National Statistics Institute's Construction and Housing Price Indicator System. He is Director of Confidencial Imobiliário, where he oversees statistical production. He is a guest expert on several postgraduate real estate courses, including at Lisbon School of Management and Economics (ISEG) and Porto Business School (EGP-PBS). He was an advisor to the President of the Association of Civil Construction and Public Works Industrialists (AICCOPN).