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He has been Director General of the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) since 1 September 2014. He is Professor of Nanotechnology at Lund University, Sweden, and founder of several Swedish companies working with nanotechnology. He is also President of the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA), which has more than 150,000 members from 32 countries. He is a member of the EC Executive High Level Group (HLG) at DG NMPB and Chairman of the Working Group of two European Technology Platforms: NANOFutures (European initiative for sustainable development through nanotechnologies) and EuMat (European platform for advanced engineering materials and technologies). Between 2003 and 2009, he was Dean of the Physics Department, Science and Engineering Faculties at Lund University and, between 2009 and 2011, he was director for the Öresund University and Öresund Science Region (ÖSR) initiative, a cross-border cooperation initiative between 11 universities and three regional authorities from two countries in the Öresund Region. He was Chairman of the Swedish Committee for Technical Standardisation in Nanotechnology from 2007 to 2014 and has written around 300 indexed international publications.

Last updated: October 2021

He is President of ANI – National Innovation Agency. Until 2014, he was Executive Director of PRODUTECH – Pólo das Tecnologias de Produção and Director of INESC Porto – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto. He is a member of the High-Level Group of the MANUFUTURE Technology Platform and Chairman of its National and Regional Technology Platforms Group. He is a National Delegate to the NMP+B Programme Committee of HORIZON 2020 and, since 2012, has been a RIS3 expert for DG REGIO.

A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and is a researcher at the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS), UK. He is currently a consultant at the Centre for Prospective Studies and International Information (CEPII), Paris, and a Professor at the University Paris Dauphine-PSL. Previously, he was Deputy Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) at the OECD. He has written several academic articles and OECD publications on trade and competition, productivity and growth, environmental issues, structural policy complementarities and regional policies.

He is a research economist in the Department of Economic Studies (area of structural studies) at the Bank of Portugal and a visiting assistant professor at the Catholic University of Portugal. He is a member of the research unit of CATÓLICA-LISBON, IZA – Institute for the Study of Labour, GLO – Global Labour Organisation and Iniciativa Educação. He has a PhD in Economics from UCL – University College London and was a short-term consultant at the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. His research topics include human capital, the economics of education, programme evaluation, the labour market, microeconometrics and economic development. He has published several papers in international peer-reviewed journals, including the International Economic Review, Labour Economics and the Journal of Population Economics.

He is an associate professor of international economics at the ESCP Business School in Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on international finance and macroeconomic policy. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, California, USA. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. His articles have been published in academic journals such as the "Journal of Economic Psychology", the "Journal of Financial Economic Policy", "VoxEU", the "Journal of International Money and Finance" and "Kyklos".

Last updated: June 2020

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.

Leads the Foundation's Digital & Social Content Management team.
She coordinated the Digital Area and the Fronteiras XXI project, with a monthly debate program in a partnership with RTP, the national Portuguese television.
Joana Ferreira da Costa was a journalist between 1997 and 2016. She worked for 11 years at the daily newspaper «Público» writing about Science, Health Policies and Politics, having been a resident's reporter at Parliament. She then worked as a sub-editor at «Diário de Notícias» and at weekly newspaper «Sol».
She has a degree in Social and Cultural Communication from the Portuguese Catholic University.

Last update: march 2023

He has a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from Nova University Lisbon. He began his career as a journalist at the «Semanario» newspaper, joined the founding team of the business magazine «Exame» and was part of the creative group on «Fortunas» magazine, then «Fortunas & Negócios». He was editor of the «Diário Económico» and the «Jornal de Negócios» and deputy director of «Exame» magazine between 2000 and 2012. He has published several books.

Last updated: November 2023