Economy

An economist in the Bank of Portugal's Economics and Research Department since 2001, she joined the institution a decade earlier as an employee of the Markets Department. She graduated in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics and completed the curricular part of the PhD and Master's programme in Economics at the same university.
Her main area of work is monetary policy in the eurozone, with the aim of providing informed advice for policymaking. In recent years, she has investigated the dynamics of the housing markets in Portugal from different angles, including the exuberant behaviour of real estate prices. She has co-authored several studies with Paulo M. M. Rodrigues, including "O Mercado Imobiliário em Portugal" by FFMS in 2022.

Last updated: July 2023

Associate Professor at the University of Minho. She has a PhD in Economics and teaches and researches in the areas of Political Economy and Economics and Public Finance. She has published articles in scientific journals and is on the board of the European Public Choice Society. She has coordinated various research and consultancy projects.

Visiting Assistant Professor at Católica Porto Business School, Catholic University of Portugal – Porto Regional Centre. She is a regular contributor to the Centre for Management Studies and Applied Economics (CEGEA). Her research interests include internationalisation, cooperation networks, regional clusters and global value chains.

Full Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, where he is Chairman of the Department of Engineering and Management. He was a Full Professor at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London, between 2013 and 2015.
Between 2010 and 2012 he was President of the Centre for Management Studies at Instituto Superior Técnico (COG-IST), where he is currently affiliated. Between 2004 and 2009, he was Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute of Economics, Germany. He has been editor of the scientific journal Small Business Economics (Springer Nature) since 2005. His research interests focus on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Regional Development and Industrial Market Dynamics.

Last updated: March 2022

He holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, he is a professor of Economics at Nova SBE and a researcher at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London.
His research focuses on a wide range of topics, going from the relationship between democracy and economic growth to the macroeconomic cost of gender discrimination and has been published in several academic journals, such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and in works published by Harvard University Press, MIT Press, Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press.
His academic work has been commented on in publications such as Time Magazine, The New York Times, Handelsblatt and La Repubblica, and discussed on specialised opinion article sites such as Vox.eu and Eurointelligence.
He was co-editor, with Francesco Caselli and Mário Centeno, of «After the Crisis: Reform, Recovery and Growth in Europe», and author of the essay «Europe Is Not a Foreign Country», a discussion on the past and future of Europe as an idea.

Last updated: October 2023

Visiting Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary, which he has been affiliated to since 2011. He got his PhD in Economics from the University of the Algarve in 2012. His areas of interest include Microeconomics, Energy and Environmental Economics and Econometrics. His publications include more than 15 scientific articles in these areas.

Last updated: March 2022

Member of the Board of Directors of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2022-2027).
Founder of NEWES, New Energy Solutions. Visiting professor at the MIT-Portugal programme. Former president of the Regulatory Authority for the Energy Sector (ERSE). And electrotechnical engineer, he got his Bachelor's degree from the University of Porto and his PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Last updated: April 2024

Geographer, specialist in Human Geography, Spatial Planning and regional and local development. Policy evaluator for the Portuguese government and the European Commission. He has been a consultant for the OECD, President of the Portuguese Association for Regional Development and Secretary of State for Spatial Planning and Cities.

Architect (Faculty of Architecture, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), PhD in Town Planning – Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He studies the evolution of spatial planning as a public policy in Portugal, focusing on learning processes and institutional adaptation logics in the face of a changing legal and political framework.

Visiting Assistant Professor at Católica Porto Business School, Catholic University of Portugal – Porto Regional Centre. Regular contributor to the Centre for Management Studies and Applied Economics (CEGEA). He works as a consultant to companies in the area of strategy. His research interests include Corporate Strategy, Business Models in the digital age and Management of Multinational Companies.