Economy

Geographer, specialist in Human Geography, Spatial Planning and regional and local development. Policy evaluator for the Portuguese government and the European Commission. He has been a consultant for the OECD, President of the Portuguese Association for Regional Development and Secretary of State for Spatial Planning and Cities.

Architect (Faculty of Architecture, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), PhD in Town Planning – Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He studies the evolution of spatial planning as a public policy in Portugal, focusing on learning processes and institutional adaptation logics in the face of a changing legal and political framework.

Visiting Assistant Professor at Católica Porto Business School, Catholic University of Portugal – Porto Regional Centre. Regular contributor to the Centre for Management Studies and Applied Economics (CEGEA). He works as a consultant to companies in the area of strategy. His research interests include Corporate Strategy, Business Models in the digital age and Management of Multinational Companies.

Born in 1952. Degree in geography, from the Faculty of Letters, UL and a PhD from UL in Human Geography. As a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, he coordinated the «Environment, Territory and Society» Research Group and the ICS-UL Observatories Council.

PhD student in Economics at the University of Coimbra and Research Fellow at the Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER). His research focuses on productivity, financial constraints and firm dynamics.

Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. He was a research associate at the University of Cambridge and his research focuses on the interaction between micro-heterogeneity and macroeconomic dynamics, particularly on the topics of monetary policy and housing.
He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Last updated: October 2023

Economist in the Bank of Portugal’s Economics and Research Department, where he has worked since 2001. He graduated and obtained his PhD in Economics from Nova University Lisbon, where he has taught since 1993. He has also taught at the Nova School of Business and Economics and the School of Law at Universidade Nova, in the areas of Portuguese and European Economics, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. João Amador has been an editor and author of book chapters on the Portuguese Economy and International Trade and has published articles in international scientific journals.

Joana Vasconcelos is an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Lisbon School of Law, where she graduated and got her Master’s degree and PhD. She teaches Labour Law and Procedural Labour Law on the Bachelor's and Master's courses at the same institution. She was a consultant for the Legal Centre of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and was a member of the team that prepared the Preliminary Draft of the Labour Code. She works regularly with other national law faculties and institutions on postgraduate and advanced training courses in labour law and labour procedural law, and regularly participates in colloquiums, congresses and conferences in the same areas. Joana Vasconcelos works as a legal consultant with Miranda & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados and has written several monographs and numerous published articles on employment law and procedural law.

Assistant professor in the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism at the University of Aveiro and researcher at CIPES (Higher Education Policy Research Centre). He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Porto and a PhD in Business Sciences from Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He works with GOVCOPP – Research Unit in Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies at the University of Aveiro and is an affiliate of the Global Labour Organisation. His research focuses on Labour Economics, Education and Higher Education.

Hugo Carvalho is an engineer and has built his career in the areas of innovation and technology, more recently venturing into the field of artificial intelligence. He was a member of the Portuguese parliament between 2019 and 2024. On the invitation of the government, he led the Taskforce for Licensing Renewable Energy Projects (EMER 2030). He was President of the Portuguese National Youth Council and a member of the Social and Economic Council and of the National Board of Education.

Last updated: april 2026