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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

CEO of Knowman. During the eight years she lived in London, she was a Knowledge Consultant at Headshift, Knowledge Manager in the UK Ministry of Health agencies and Cultural Change Manager at a major financial institution. She conceived the Citizenship 2.0 event, which she has been co-organising since 2010, and is responsible for the platform of the same name (citizenship20.com) which promotes and boosts projects for using social networks and tools as means of civic dialogue and participation. She collaborates regularly with the São Paulo State Government (Brazil) with whom she co-edited the book «We Can Do It – Knowledge Management and Innovation in the Public Sector» (2014). She also coordinates APDSI's Web 2.0 group.

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.

She is Professor of Economics and Researcher at the Center for Population Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on labour economics, demography and health in the US, from a long-term economic-historical perspective. Her work analyses the implications of the spread of modern contraception on motherhood, career decisions and pay. She has a special interest in analysing «Great Society» programmes in the short and long term and the creation of a Micro Electronic Database (LIFE-M), which allows economic growth and geographic mobility to be studied, as well as family formation throughout the twentieth century.

A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.

Professor of Economics and holder of the Ford Chair at MIT. He is also Co-Director of the NBER Labor Studies Programme, the MIT Task Force on Work of the Future and the experimental JPAL Work of the Future Initiative. His research explores the impacts of the technological revolution and globalisation on the labour market, specifically job polarization, demands and skills, income levels and inequalities, and electoral outcomes. He has received several awards for his academic studies – the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Award for Outstanding Contributions to Labor Economics, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019 – and also for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. Most recently, Autor received the Heinz 25th Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his contribution to «transforming our perception of how globalisation and the technological revolution are impacting the jobs and wage prospects of American workers.« In 2017, Bloomberg recognised him as one of the 50 people who have defined the world of business on a global scale. And in 2019, the Economist magazine labelled him «The academic voice of the American worker». Later that year, and with (at least) equal justification, he was dubbed the «Twerpy MIT Economist» by John Oliver of Last Week Tonight, in a segment on automation and employment.

Professor of Finance and holder of the Max L. Heine Chair at New York University's Stern School of Business. He was named one of the «25 most promising economists under 45» by the IMF in 2014. He won the Bernácer Prize in 2013 for the best European economist under 40, the Michael Brennan & BlackRock Prize in 2010, the Prize for the Best Young French Economist in 2009 and the Brattle Prize for the best article on Corporate Finance in 2008. He has studied various topics in the fields of macroeconomics and finance: systemic risk and the financial crisis, the dynamics of corporate investment and household debt, innovation and financial regulation and the Eurozone crisis. His latest book «The Great Reversal» (Harvard Press, 2019) focuses on the growing market power of large companies. He serves as Academic Consultant for the Financial Stability Board and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research. He was a Consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a member of the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority of the Banque de France between 2014 and 2019 and Senior Economic Advisor to the French Minister of Finance from 2012-2013.

American economist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics. He is also the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he is also a professor at the Hoover Institute and a visiting fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations. He is an adjunct professor at Bocconi University in Milan and an honorary fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford University.
He is a senior advisor to Jasper Ridge Partners and General Atlantic Partners. He co-chairs the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute and was chairman of the Independent Commission on Growth and Development (2006-2010).
He was Dean of Stanford Business School (1990-1999) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University (1984-1990).

Last updated: July 2022

Professor and director of the Globalisation and Governance Centre (CG&G) at the Nova School of Business and Economics, he is a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Belgium and the Canadian Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He taught at Yale and Princeton universities, Sciences Po university in Paris and the Catholic Universities in Portugal and Angola. He also served as President of the OECD Development Centre and the Tropical Scientific Research Institute (which includes the Tropical Botanical Garden). The long list of his academic publications is available at www.jbmacedo.com

Journalist for the Público.

Last updated: September 2020