Economy

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.

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.

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

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

(1936-2018) He joined the army and went to the Army School in 1953. He served in several units of the Armed Forces and did two missions in Africa. He was Commander-in-Chief of Madeira, Director of the Institute for Advanced Military Studies, Chief of the General Staff, head of government and Commander-in-Chief of Cape Verde, Permanent Secretary of the Council of the Revolution, member of the Council of the Revolution and Minister of National Defence. He was a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and a member of the Scientific Council of the Centre for Security and Defence Research at the Institute for Advanced Military Studies (IESM), the Honour Council at the School of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP) and a member (co-opted) of the General Council of Nova University Lisbon. He has 15 published works on Strategy, Security and Defence, History and International Relations.

Last updated: November 2018