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Full professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine and obstetrician and gynaecologist at Santa Maria Hospital. He was the first elected president of the National Council for Ethics in Life Sciences (2009-2015), he is coordinator of three projects on sexual and reproductive health in the European Union (2003-2010) and was elected vice-president of the Bioethics department of the Council of Europe (2018-2019). He has published very widely on bioethics issues.

She is Professor of Economics and Researcher at the Center for Population Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on labour economics, demography and health in the US, from a long-term economic-historical perspective. Her work analyses the implications of the spread of modern contraception on motherhood, career decisions and pay. She has a special interest in analysing «Great Society» programmes in the short and long term and the creation of a Micro Electronic Database (LIFE-M), which allows economic growth and geographic mobility to be studied, as well as family formation throughout the twentieth century.

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 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

Visiting Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of NY and Senior Scholar at LIS. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He was Senior Economist in the Research Department of the World Bank for almost 20 years and was Senior Advisor at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2003-2005). He has taught at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and Johns Hopkins University (1997-2007).

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