Economy

Born in 1947, he graduated in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon and led several Ministries in different governments (Internal Affairs, National Defense and Foreign Affairs). He was Member of Parliament from 1975 to 2011, were he held office as Speaker, consequently becoming a member of the Council of State. Presently, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Lisbon University and of the Strategy Board of the Political Studies Institute of the Lisbon Catholic University. Member of the Supervisory Board of the Military University Institute and of the High Council of the Navy’s Centre for Strategic Studies. He also belongs to the Aspen Ministers Forum. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novo Banco Azores and Chairman of the Supervisory Board for the electronic newspaper Observador. He is Senior Strategic Counsel at Albright Stonebridge Group. He was awarded several Portuguese and foreign decorations. He received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Azores and is Chancellor of the Ancient Portuguese Military Orders.

Last updated: september 2022

She is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Lugano (Switzerland), a field in which she completed her Master’s degree at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), specialising in public policy. She graduated from Nova SBE in January 2021 with a thesis on the impact of tax incentives on the adoption of electric vehicles in Europe, for which she received the highest grade. In addition to economics in the public sector, his areas of interest range from environmental and resource economics to energy markets. Before starting her PhD programme, she worked in the consulting sector as an information and market research analyst, and also at Nova SBE's Environmental Economics Knowledge Centre.

Last updated: October 2021

He has been a diplomat since 1999 and has worked in Lisbon, Luanda, Brussels, Tokyo and Paris (OECD). He was head of office and diplomatic advisor to the Minister of Agriculture and the Sea (2011-2015). He has written «Travels in Other Lands – Almeida Garrett, Diplomat in Brussels» (2011); «Blue Diplomacy – the Sea in Portugal’s Foreign Policy» (2017) and several articles in national and foreign magazines. He is currently the Consul General of Portugal in Manchester.

Last updated: February 2022

Director of publications and member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, António Araújo was born in Lisbon in 1966. He obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in law at the University of Lisbon and holds a PhD in contemporary history from the Catholic University of Portugal. He was a teacher at the Faculty of Law and teaches now at NOVA FCSH. He is adviser to the Constitutional Court, in unpaid leave, and was consultant to the President of the Republic for political affairs. He is the author of several books and articles in political science, constitutional law and contemporary history. He represents FFMS on the Board of the Portuguese Foundation Center.

She is President of the ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management at the University of Lisbon, where she has been a full professor of Finance in the Management department since 2010. She has taught at ISCTE and the University of Oxford. She holds a PhD from the London Business School. Her research areas are corporate finance and corporate governance, and she has published her work in international academic journals. She holds several non-executive directorships and is a corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

Last updated: February 2022

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