Professor of International Law and Organizations at Columbia Law School, with the title of Henry L. Moses Professor. She is also the director of Columbia’s Center for European Legal Studies and a Senior Researcher at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School.
She specialises in EU law, digital regulation, international trade law and international and comparative antitrust law.
She is the author of «The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World» (OUP 2020), which was named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. More recently, she released «Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology», published by Oxford University Press in September 2023, and recognised as one of the best books of 2023 by the Financial Times.
Founder and CEO of the communications company Empower Sports and presenter on the Eleven Sports channel. He began his career at RTP, later working for CNN (in the US and later as a correspondent in London), Sport TV and UEFA. He has also worked with FIFA and the Portuguese Football Federation.
Finnish biologist and executive director of RePlanet, an environmental NGO that seeks science-based solutions to climate change and biodiversity collapse, without losing sight of the need to eliminate poverty. Interestingly, this environmental activist played American Football, winning two bronze medals at the World Championships.
He has been Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto since 2022, as well as an Associate Member of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, in the UK, after having worked in the Economic Studies Department of the Bank of Portugal and the Research Office of the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM). He completed a PhD and a research Master's Degree in Economics at the London School of Economics, and a Master's Degree and Bachelor's degree in Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics, having taught at both institutions.
His primary focus is labour economics and applied microeconometrics, having more recently developed scientific activity in urban economics. His work seeks to understand how regulatory and public policy frameworks affect market balance and dynamics, from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. His scientific work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Econometrics and the British Journal of Industrial Relations.
She has a degree in psychology from the University of Lisbon's FPCE, studied film studies at Lisbon's ESTC, worked for RTP and, as a director for SIC, attended a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) course in TV Production.
She was a director for SIC from 1992 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2003 she completed the Advanced Programme in Political Journalism at the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2008, she was a documentaries advisor to RTP's Programme Direction. In March 2018, she unanimously received her PhD in contemporary history, specialising in empires, colonialism and post-colonialism, earning a distinction and praise for her work. In 2007, she was awarded the Lusophony Grand Prize for the documentary «The Prodigious Writer», a film about the life of Jorge de Sena, which she wrote and directed. In 2018 she was awarded the Fernando de Sousa prize by the European Commission for her work directing and co-authoring the screenplay for the 6-film documentary series Europa 30, shown on RTP2. In 2021 she premiered the documentary «Visions of Empire» at the DocLisboa festival, which she also directed and wrote.
Co-founder and CEO of Vision-Box, he was President and CEO of US-based Logicad3d, formerly a Logitech company, and an aerospace research and development spin-off in Germany. Previously, he had an academic career that eventually led to the successful development, construction and launch of Portugal's first satellite. He earned a Master's Degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart.
He heads the largest Portuguese footwear group, Kyaia, which owns Fly London, the eighth best-selling shoe brand in the world, and the Foreva multi-brand chain.
He has dedicated his entire career to this sector: he started at the age of 14 sweeping up at the Campeão Português shoe factory, going on to open his first factory in 1976. Eight years later, in 1984, he founded Kyaia with his partner Amílcar Monteiro. The initial staff of 50 eventually grew to almost 600, and today the group has five factories and over 80 stores in 57 countries. Operating in a sector that has been experiencing a rebirth, the Kyaia group broke its seventh consecutive export record in 2016, with over 81 million pairs of shoes exported. Its corporate group has diversified its business by entering distribution and information technology. Fortunato Frederico was President of the Portuguese Footwear Manufacturers' Association (APICAPS) for 18 years, a position he did not stand for again in the April elections. He was born in Guimarães in 1943.
Bosch’s representative in Portugal since 2015, he also manages Bosch Car Multimedia in Braga. He has a degree in global leadership and management (Japan) and from Carnegie Mellon University. His strategic priorities include a permanent commitment to innovation and developing highly technological products, as well as growing Bosch's activities in Portugal.
