Economy

He was born in Olhão. He has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and he received the Young Economist Award from the European Economic Association in 2001 and the Latin Union Scientific Merit Award in 2006. He is deputy director of the Economic Studies department in Banco de Portugal. His research area is the labour economy, a subject he has published articles on in several international scientific journals. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and he is on the Roll of Honour at ISEG-UTL, as well as a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the same university. He was on the Committee on the White Paper on Labour Relations in 2007. He teaches at ISEG-UTL and ISEGI-UNL.

Last updated: January 2013

(1936-2018) He joined the army and went to the Army School in 1953. He served in several units of the Armed Forces and did two missions in Africa. He was Commander-in-Chief of Madeira, Director of the Institute for Advanced Military Studies, Chief of the General Staff, head of government and Commander-in-Chief of Cape Verde, Permanent Secretary of the Council of the Revolution, member of the Council of the Revolution and Minister of National Defence. He was a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and a member of the Scientific Council of the Centre for Security and Defence Research at the Institute for Advanced Military Studies (IESM), the Honour Council at the School of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP) and a member (co-opted) of the General Council of Nova University Lisbon. He has 15 published works on Strategy, Security and Defence, History and International Relations.

Last updated: November 2018

He got his PhD in Economics from the University of Leicester College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities and his Master’s degree in Historical Sociology and Economics from Nova University Lisbon. He was a member of the Portuguese parliament, vice-president of the Committee on Budget, Finance and Administrative Modernisation and member of the Ad Hoc Committee for Strengthening Transparency in the Exercise of Public Duties. He is a visiting researcher at several foreign universities: U. Van Amsterdam (Netherlands), London School of Economics and Leicester University (UK), Turku (Finland) New York and Yale Universities (USA).

Last updated: January 2024

President of the Portuguese Association of Banks and member of the General Council of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance. He is also on the board of the Professional Women Network (PWN) Lisbon.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics, a Master’s degree and a PhD in Philosophy and he is a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Portugal.
He was president of the institute that manages Public Debt, Director General of the Treasury, director of the foreign department at Banco de Portugal and administrator of the Macao Issuer Institute (current Monetary Authority). He was a member of the EU Monetary Committee and played an active role in the tasks of preparing the EMU at national and European level. He is active in civil society and was president of Sedes.
He regularly comments on economic and financial issues. He has written several books.

Last updated: December 2023

He is an emeritus professor at the University of Lisbon School of Sciences. He has devoted himself to teaching and research in theoretical nuclear physics, astrophysics and, since 1987, in environmental sciences, global changes and sustainability, and is currently President of the National Council for Environment and Sustainable Development. His latest book is «Time, Progress, Growth and Technology».

Last updated: May 2021

Fátima Barros owns a PhD and a Master's Degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium (European Doctoral Programme in Quantitative Economics). Since 1992, she has been a Professor at the CATOLICA LISBON School of Business & Economics, where she also obtained her bachelor's degree in Economics, in 1986. She has several published works in the fields of competition, regulation and strategy in top international scientific journals.
She was the Director of CATOLICA LISBON between 2004 and 2012, and Deputy Director between 2001 and 2004. While holding the position of Director of the Faculty, she was invited to join the Directors' Boards of many institutions linked with university education in Europe and the USA; and was member of several Advisory Boards of Business Schools in France, England and Switzerland.
She is currently a non-executive director at BRISA Concessão Rodoviária and Banco BPI, where she is also Chair of the Audit Committee.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation since November 2025. Trustee of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos from 2024 until november 2025, she was a non-executive director between 2017 and 2023.

Last updated: november 2025

Professor of Finance and holder of the Max L. Heine Chair at New York University's Stern School of Business. He was named one of the «25 most promising economists under 45» by the IMF in 2014. He won the Bernácer Prize in 2013 for the best European economist under 40, the Michael Brennan & BlackRock Prize in 2010, the Prize for the Best Young French Economist in 2009 and the Brattle Prize for the best article on Corporate Finance in 2008. He has studied various topics in the fields of macroeconomics and finance: systemic risk and the financial crisis, the dynamics of corporate investment and household debt, innovation and financial regulation and the Eurozone crisis. His latest book «The Great Reversal» (Harvard Press, 2019) focuses on the growing market power of large companies. He serves as Academic Consultant for the Financial Stability Board and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research. He was a Consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a member of the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority of the Banque de France between 2014 and 2019 and Senior Economic Advisor to the French Minister of Finance from 2012-2013.

Pedro Pita Barros is a full professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics, Nova University Lisbon, where he is the BPI | Fundação la Caixa Professor of Health Economics, and a member of the Economic and Social Council (voted Personality of Recognised Merit).
Pedro held the position of Vice-Rector of Nova University Lisbon (2013-2017) and he is a member of the EC Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health (EXPH) (the European Commission, by selection). He was the President of the European Health Economics Association (2013-2016) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Energy Services Regulator (2005-2006). He was also the President of the Portuguese Health Economics Association (1998-2000; 2009-2010), a member of the EC Mission Board for Cancer (the European Commission, by selection) (2019-2020), a member of the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences (2015-2021) and a member of the National Health Council (representing the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities) (2016-2021).
Pedro has been honoured as a Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry (Ordem do Infante D. Henrique) and with a gold medal for Distinguished Services, awarded by the Ministry of Health.
His research work is in the areas of health economics, economic regulation and competition policy. He acts as a consultant for public and private bodies in the same areas.

Last updated: August 2025