Economy

He is head of the «Net Futures» department at DG CONNECT and in charge of research and innovation on the current Internet architecture, software and services and strategy for the EU's cloud computing system.

Last updated: June 2015

Senior Project Leader at Nesta and Senior Consultant at Nesta Innovation Lab. She is the EU coordinator of the direct democracy and digital social currencies project «D-CENT», and Lead Researcher of the digital social innovation project in Europe «DSI». She is a Researcher and Associate Professor at Imperial College Business School, in the Centre for Innovation Studies – Digital Economy Lab. She has an undergraduate degree in social sciences and innovation economics, a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Imperial College London and a Master's Degree in E-business and Innovation from the University College of London, Birkbeck. She is also a member of the Internet of Things Council project and a consultant for the European Commission on Future Internet and Smart Cities policy.

Last updated: June 2015

He is President of Portugal Inovação Social, a government initiative created in January 2015 as part of Portugal2020, which aims to boost the innovation and social entrepreneurship ecosystem in Portugal and create the foundations for a social investment market. He holds a PhD in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Stanford University and was Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD for 12 years, where he ran the social entrepreneurship programme since 2007 and the Entrepreneurship Centre since 2009. He is the author of a vast body of research on organisational theory, entrepreneurship and social innovation, and has received over 2,000 citations on Google scholar. He co-founded the Social Entrepreneurship Institute and the Social Investment Laboratory in Portugal. In 2013, he published «Handbook for Changing the World», the first guide for social entrepreneurs in Portuguese.

Last updated: June 2015

He is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Co-Director of the New Political Communication Unit, which he founded in 2007. He is the author of two major award-winning books – «Internet Politics: States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies» and «The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power», both published by Oxford University Press. Chadwick was the founding editor of the Oxford Studies in Digital Politics collection from Oxford University Press.

Last updated: June 2015

She was born in 1993 and she is a journalist. The newsroom at the «i» newspaper and the «Sol» weekly newspaper was her first home, where she began in 2018, after completing a postgraduate degree in Multiplatform Journalism. She also worked at the «Expresso» and is now in the «Sábado» newsroom.

Last updated: March 2022

He has a PhD in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), an institution where he is a member of the Centre for Economics of Education and where he got his Bachelor's degree and MPhil in Economics. His research focuses on the subjects of Economics of Education and Human Capital, such as: measures of added value for teachers, differentials between internal and external scores, reasons behind the progression in PISA tests and factors of success in higher education.
His work uses comprehensive databases of both the labour market and the Portuguese education system. He was also involved in the impact assessment for different educational projects developed in Portugal. He was a visiting student in the economics department at the University College of London (UCL). He is a visiting assistant at Nova SBE for several Bachelor’s degree and Master's degree courses.

Last updated: August 2023

He has a PhD from the European University Institute of Florence and he is an associate professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics. He has a Bachelor's degree in History from Nova University Lisbon and a PhD in History and Civilisation from the European University Institute of Florence, specialising in the area of Economic History. His books and scientific articles have been published by international publishing houses and in magazines. He has also published books for the general public, such as «The Portuguese Economy», «Recent Decades», in 2010, published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, «A Grand Life», in 2014, and «In the name of the Father and of the Son...», in 2015, both published by Publicações D. Quixote.

Last updated: February 2022

Economist and researcher in Political Science at ISCTE-IUL. Director of the postgraduate Pprogram in Critical Thinking and Decision-Making at ISCTE Executive Education, and guest lecturer at Católica-Lisbon.
Consultant, trainer, and speaker on critical thinking and decision-making, with organizations such as Sonae, Nestlé, Fidelidade, Bosch, Isdin, E.Leclerc, Auchan, and C2, among others.
Host of the award-winning podcast «45 Graus» (currently, in partnership with the newspaper Expresso).
Commentator on the program «Contraponto», broadcast on the tv channel RTP News.

Last update: may 2025

He has worked in consumer policy for about 40 years. In addition to his work, he was an association representative, having served on the Consumer Advisory Committee, in the European Commission and on the board of the European Consumers’ Association. He was the author of television and radio programmes, as well as several works in the specific field of consumption.
He often works with regional press and blogs and does voluntary work with consumer associations as their representative. Since 2006, he has also devoted himself to studies on the Portuguese colony in Guinea and political life in Guinea-Bissau, subjects on which he has published a number of books.


Last updated: January 2023

Francisco Furtado is the coordinator of the Foresight and Planning team at the Centre for Planning and Evaluation of Public Policies (PLANAPP), where he coordinates the drafting of the Law on Government Planning Options (GO), the structural part of the National Medium-Term Fiscal-Structural Plan (POENMP), studies on foresight, the development of decision-making support models and the coordinated development of the national strategic planning system. He also worked as a modeller/analyst at the International Transport Forum (ITF -OECD, Paris) from 2016 to 2021.
Francisco has a PhD in Transport Systems (MIT - Portugal, Instituto Superior Técnico), a Master’s degree in Complex Transport Infrastructure Systems (MIT - Portugal, Instituto Superior Técnico) and a Bachelor’s degree (5-year course) in Civil Engineering from IST. His Master’s and PhD theses both focused on rail freight, and he has professional experience in the construction area, particularly public works.

Last updated: August 2025