Economy

Economist at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, where he is part of the Territorial Data Analysis and Modelling (TEDAM) team. His research interests include labour economics, fiscal policy, regional economics, technological innovation and ecological economics. He holds a master’s degree and a PhD in Economics from the International University of Andalusia (UNIA).
Before joining the JRC, he worked as a research assistant and adjunct professor at the University of Huelva. Furthermore, he was a visiting assistant professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Management Studies at IST (CEGIST).

Last updated: March 2025

Nonresident fellow in energy and global oil at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He has over 35 years of experience working at the intersections of energy, economics and public policy.
Before joining the Baker Institute, he was the senior U.S. economist at BP. For 12 years, he led the production of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, the world’s longest-running compilation of objective global energy data. He also was responsible for the company’s long- and short-term oil market analysis, and he led the global oil market and transportation sector analyses for the long-term BP Energy Outlook.
Prior to joining BP, he was an analyst and manager at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. He was responsible for assessing the implications for U.S. strategic interests of developments in global oil and other energy markets,
Finley is a senior fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics. He has held leadership roles in the International Association for Energy Economics, the National Association for Business Economics, and the Conference of Business Economics, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and holds graduate degrees from Northwestern University (in economics) and the George Washington University (in finance).

Last update: march 2025

Founder of the consulting company ‘MD Media Fusion’, presenter of the programme ‘Economia Sem Fronteiras’ and television commentator on the ‘News Now’ channel.
She has spent most of her career in the USA, where she was a reporter for ABC News, Fox News and a correspondent for TVI, based in New York, covering the major global events of recent decades.
Specialising in Justice and International Politics, she followed media cases in the New York courts, including those of Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and ‘El Chapo. She has interviewed figures such as Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu and Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Last updated: January 2025

He runs the Teak Capital fund, is a partner in the Horizon Equity Partners fund, vice-chairman of Sonae Indústria, and sits on the board of the Serralves Foundation. He recently stepped down as chairman of the BA Glass group after 22 years running the company.
He has accumulated decades of experience in company management, running dozens of companies in a wide variety of areas - here we name just a few. He was chairman of the Board of Directors of Sonae Retalho Especializado, TVI - Televisão Independente and the Spanish company La Seda de Barcelona. He managed the EDP - Energias de Portugal group and was a member of the board of COTEC Portugal.
He taught at the University of Porto between 1975 and 1987. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto, a master's degree and a doctorate in Management from the University of Warwick, UK.

Last updated: december 2020

Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship at Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland.
He is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization & Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park. Anil is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy, globalization and entrepreneurship.
Ranked by «Thinkers50» as 'one of the world’s most influential living management thinkers', he has also been named by The Economist as one of the world's «superstars» for research on emerging economies, and inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ «Hall of Fame».
He is one of only three professors, out of over 25000 worldwide, to have been elected a Lifetime Fellow of the three most prestigious academic bodies in his field – Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business. He is the author of several best-selling books including «The Quest for Global Dominance», «Getting China and India Right», and «The Silk Road Rediscovered».
Anil Gupta received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Last update: january 2025

He has been Professor at the Graduate Institute in Geneva since 1991 and CEPR President since 2016. He founded the VoxEU.org portal in 2007. As well as being a researcher and teacher, he has advised governments and international organisations around the world on globalisation and trade policy. He was Senior Economist in the Bush Administration's Presidential Council (1990-1991) and did his PhD in economics at MIT with Paul Krugman.

Journalist for the Público.

Last updated: September 2020

He was born in Bombarral in 1963. He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from ISE and he is a teacher and journalist. He was a correspondent for the Diário de Notícias and wrote for Sábado, Dirigir and Le Rail magazines. He has worked at the Público since 1991 and is Deputy Director of Gazeta das Caldas.

Last updated: February 2017

She is a researcher at CREA – Centre for Research in Anthropology at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences in Lisbon. She has a PhD in Anthropology and a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and she has worked on identity, memory and uses of culture in built-up areas, paying special attention to the fields of heritage and tourism.

Last updated: May 2019