Economy

João Tiago Gaspar started working at Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in 2016, having held different positions in the Scientific Department until becoming head of Research and Science Communication (in 2022). As of 2024, he became responsible for the Foundation's Content and International Affairs, maintaining the position of director of the Foundation's Summaries collection (created in 2018). He was a teaching assistant of History of International Relations at NOVA FCSH, in the 2020/2021 academic year, having accumulated this position with his functions at FFMS. Between 2015 and 2016, before joining the Foundation, he was a research assistant at the ICS of the University of Lisbon, as part of the 2015 Portuguese Electoral Study. He graduated in Political Science and obtained a master’s degree in Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies at the Portuguese Catholic University, where he is working on his PhD in Political Science and International Relations. He was also an exchange student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a visiting student at Lincoln College, University of Oxford.

Last updated: May 2024

He recently graduated from the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE) with a Master's degree in Economics. Before that, he studied Economics and Business Management at Maastricht University, with a semester based in Chile. Alongside his studies, he gained work experience at GIZ (Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Germany), where he worked on the international development of green bond markets, and at Triodos Bank, where he was involved in financing renewable energy projects. Dietrich currently works as a research assistant at Nova SBE's Environmental Economics Knowledge Centre and as an independent information analyst. An environmental enthusiast, his interests focus on the social equity issues inherent in the transition to a more sustainable society. He loves outdoor sports, cooking and delving into the philosophy of human behaviour.

Last updated: October 2021

He was born in Lisbon in 1962. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (1985) from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Universidade Técnica de Lisboa – where he won the award for best student of the year in his field – and in Strategic Management in the Context of Innovation (1988) from University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE). He obtained a Master's degree in Heat Transfer and Conversion (1998), and a PhD (1993) and Aggregation (2004) in Mechanical Engineering from IST. President of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and National Director of the MIT-Portugal programme – the largest international partnership in Science and Technology in Portugal in the field of Engineering Systems – and also the main focus area for Sustainable Energy Systems. He is a Full Professor at IST, co-founder of the Centre for Studies in Innovation, Technology and Development Policies (IN+), and was the coordinator of the Sustainable Technologies and Environmental Systems area in the Laboratory of Robotics and Systems in Engineering and Science (LARSyS) at the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR). He has written more than 70 articles published in journals, book chapters and more than 80 papers presented at conferences and lectures in different fields. He has co-organised more than a dozen international conferences and led more than 30 scientific projects in the areas of Energy Efficiency and Industrial Ecology.

Last updated: October 2021

She is an associate professor in the Mathematics department at the University of Minho and a member of NIPE – Research Centre for Economic and Business Policies. Her main research interests are in the area of numerical analysis and applications of the theory of wavelets to economics, having developed, in collaboration with Luís Aguiar-Conraria, a Matlab toolbox for the use of various wavelet tools.

Last updated: March 2022

She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA and is a Professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE). She has extensive experience in project coordination and her main areas of interest are Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, with an emphasis on the economic valuation of environmental goods and the formulation of models with application to natural resources. Her work has been published in international scientific journals such as the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Land Economics, Environment & Resource Economics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Energy Economics and Ecological Economics. She has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Environment and Development Economics since 2008 and of the journal Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales (EARN) since 2014. She was Vice-President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) and President-elect of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (AERNA) between 2008 and 2012. She has been scientific co-director of the Nova Environmental Economics Knowledge Centre since November 2017, the year the knowledge centre was launched. She is also Portugal's representative at EAERE and the Nova SBE representative on the Academic Council of Nova 4, the Globe interdisciplinary platform at Nova University Lisbon.

Last updated: October 2021

He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge and is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Lisbon. He previously worked at the Portuguese Public Finance Council as a senior economist. He was also an economist at the IMF, the OECD and the ECB. In the academic field, he has taught at Sciences Po, Paris, the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge, UK, and at Nova University Lisbon. His main areas of research include fiscal policy, forecasting performance, macro-financial linkages and energy economics. He has written numerous studies, with more than 100 academic papers published in prestigious scientific journals.

Last updated: October 2021

Professor in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro, he teaches and researches in the areas of Regional Economics, Regional Planning and Public Policy, in the fields of methods and techniques to support decision-making. He is a member of the Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy Research Unit, coordinating the Decision Support Systems Group.

Last updated: March 2022

He holds a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, a postgraduate degree in Enterprise Data Science & Analytics from Nova University Lisbon (NovaIMS) and is currently finishing his PhD in Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. He is a researcher at Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS) and a guest lecturer at Instituto Superior Técnico. Previously, he worked in investment banking and co-founded the artificial intelligence and data analysis company Alfredo Real Estate Analytics.

Last updated: October 2021

He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (Florence) and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Minho School of Economics and Management, a member of the Research Centre for Economic and Business Policies (NIPE) and an external collaborator of the Higher Education Policy Research Centre (CIPES). His main areas of research are labour economics and the evaluation of programmes and public policies. He has published articles in international journals and several books and chapters on these subjects. As a consultant, he has produced several reports aimed at analysing the economic impacts associated with climate change, large-scale projects or events and labour policies on minimum wages, education and employment, both for private and public institutions, such as the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, the Ministry of Economy and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Last updated: October 2021

He is one of the most important political economists of his generation. His ideas on customised economic growth strategies adapted to local conditions have been hugely influential on governments and multilateral institutions.
He is considered one of the pioneers in warning of the risks of globalisation in his book «Has Globalization Gone Too Far?» His notion of «globalisation trilemma» is now a crucial concept in the debate around the future of the world economy of the future. He was awarded the Princess of Asturias Prize for Social Sciences in 2020.

Last updated: June 2021