Economy

Assistant Professor at Católica Porto Business School, Catholic University of Portugal – Porto Regional Centre. Regular collaborator at the Centre for Management Studies and Applied Economics (CEGEA). Her research interests include Human Resources Economics and Management and Public Policy.

Professor at University College London, where she directed and founded the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, she is considered one of today's most influential economists.
She advises decision-makers around the world on sustainable, data-based economic growth.
She has written various books, such as «The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy», «The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths», and, most recently, «Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism» (January 2021).

Sociologist and Coordinating Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, she coordinates OBSERVA – Observatory of Environment, Territory and Society. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Programme in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies. Additionally, she is a member of the National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development (CNADS). the European Environment Advisory Council (EEAC) and the Portuguese Council for Health and the Environment (CPSA). She is a regular columnist for the newspapers Expresso and the «Água & Ambiente».

Last updated: November 2024

He holds a PhD, a Master's Degree and Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. Between 1998 and 2015, he was Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.
Since 2015, he has been Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. He is also Permanent Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, where he has dedicated himself to researching international migration.
He also collaborates with various national and international agencies and institutions, such as the International Organisation for Migration, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), the European Commission, the Council of Europe and the European Migration Network.
He has published over 100 articles and books on emigration and immigration in Portugal and Europe. In his most recent work, «Common Home» (2019), Pedro Góis notes that «migration flows to Portugal produce positive effects, mitigating, in the short term, the consequences of population ageing and decline» yet requiring long-term demographic planning, which has yet to be done.

Last update: February 2020

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.

Last updated: January 2022

Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI) at Nova University Lisbon and invited associate professor at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences, where she teaches Asian Studies and History of International Relations.
She chaired the Portuguese Association of Political Science (2012-2016) and was a consultant to the Board of Directors of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2020-2022).
Author of several articles and books including «The Great Wall and the Legacy of Tiananmen, China and Human Rights» (Tinta-da-China) and «The Portuguese and the World» (Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos). She also wrote the introduction to the new translation of George Orwell's «Nineteen Eighty-Four» (Penguin).
She teamed up with Pedro Vieira for the podcast – [Ir] Relevant Politics, for Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, and the duo currently do the monthly podcast «Eleanor's Friends», for the Luso-American Development Foundation, with stories about extraordinary women, centered on the figure of Eleanor Roosevelt.
She is a resident international policy analyst on SIC Notícias.

Last updated: september 2025

He holds a Bachelor’s degree and PhD in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), is a Principal Investigator at Nova SBE and Scientific Co-Director of the Nova SBE Environmental Economics Knowledge Centre. He worked at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, from 2008 to 2011, where he developed research in the area of integrating forestry, agriculture and land use topics into numerical macroeconomic models. In 2018, he was awarded a Scientific Employment Stimulus grant (Principal Investigator) and, in 2012, he was awarded an FCT early career research grant in the FCT Investigator Competition. His research interests focus on the study of renewable resources and ecosystem services, with an emphasis on the formulation of multidisciplinary bioeconomic models. He has published research work in prominent journals in the field and has been an invited speaker at various universities, seminars and workshops. His joint work with fisheries and forestry scientists has recently produced two bioeconomic models for Portuguese forests and a bioeconomic model for Ibero-Atlantic sardine stocks. In the academic field, he has taught at Nova SBE, the University of Aveiro and the University of Venice Ca'Foscari.

Last updated: October 2021

He currently works as a freelance consultant and is a senior associate in strategy consulting. His research interests focus on applied macroeconomics, asset pricing and behavioural economics. He has a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Cologne and a Master’s degree in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics.

Last updated: March 2022

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics (with distinction) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a Master's degree and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge. He is currently an Associate Professor (on leave) at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG) and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He is a member of the Unit for Studies on Complexity in Economics (UECE) and the Research in Economics and Mathematics (REM) consortium, both at ISEG. Previously, he was a senior economist in the research department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). His research work has been published in leading academic journals and cited in public presentations by prominent policymakers, as well as in renowned newspapers and magazines such as The Economist, the Dow Jones News, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Valor Econômico and the Expresso. With Maurice Obstfeld, he co-edited the book "Meeting Globalisation's Challenges", published by Princeton University Press in 2019.

Professor in the Department of Political Economy at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE), where he has been teaching since 1999. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Bocconi, Italy, and a Master's Degree in Economics and Management of Science and Technology from the Higher Institute of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon.
He was Director of Economic Analysis and Forecasting Services at the Strategy and Studies Office of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation in 2007 and 2008 and Co-ordinator of the Studies and Evaluation Centre of the NSRF Observatory between 2008 and 2014. He is author of the book «What To Do with This Country – From The Pessimism of Reason To The Optimism of Will» and co-author of the blog «Bicycle Thieves». He is a member of Dinâmica'CET, the Centre for Studies on Socioeconomic Change and Territory. He is a commentator for RTP.

Last updated: April 2017