Economy

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

He is an associate professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE) in Lisbon. He got his PhD in Economics from Stockholm University in Sweden, where he also taught between 2007 and 2014.
He taught at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He worked as a researcher at the European Central Bank and was a fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.
He carried out research at the Centre for Economics and Finance at the University of Porto until 2019. His research focuses on the interaction between micro-heterogeneity and macroeconomic dynamics, particularly on the topics of fiscal policy and optimal taxation.
He has published several papers in international scientific journals, such as the Journal of Monetary Economics or the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and contributed to the second edition of the Handbook of Macroeconomics.

Last updated: April 2024

Associate Partner, EY-Parthenon Portugal, Ernst & Young, S.A. Leads EY-Parthenon's Government and Public Sector team. He is a visiting professor at the University of Lisbon, where he teaches Macroeconomics and Economic Policy. Throughout his 30 years of professional experience, he has coordinated studies and projects on regional and sector analysis, impact measurement and evaluation, foresight and regional planning, monitoring and follow-up of regional and sector plans and strategies, as well as specific studies on the Portuguese and European economies.

President of the European Association of Law & Economics. He is a Professor of Law at George Mason University in the United States and holds the Chair in Research Innovation at Católica Global Law School.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Nova University Lisbon, holds a Master's degree in Economics and Law (LL.M.) from the University of London and a PhD in Economics from the University of York, UK.
He joined the Executive Board of the American Society for Comparative Law (2021-2023), after having chaired the Spanish Association of Law and Economics between 2017 and 2021. He has taught at Texas A&M University (2015-2018), the University of Illinois (2007-2015), Nova University Lisbon (2001-2007) and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (1998-2001).
He was awarded the Julián Marías prize by the government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid in 2010. He has written more than 150 scientific articles published in international journals.
He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos between 2014 and 2016 and has been a member of its Board of Trustees since 2018.

Last updated: January 2024

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.

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

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 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