CEO of the Casais Engineering and Construction Group, an organisation he was maintained ties with throughout his career. He is a member of the Strategic Board of the Institute for Science and Innovation for Bio-sustainability, Business Ambassador for the city of Braga, a member of the Advisory Board of the Civil Engineering course at the University of Minho and a member of the Board of Directors of the Waste Recovery Centre (CVR) (subsidiary of the University of Minho).
He holds a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Minho, where he also attended the MBA Construction Specialization Course. He runs an Owner/President Management Programme at Harvard Business School.
He is a member of the National Education Council in an advisory capacity on education policy. He served as President of the Porto Academic Federation until 2023.
He is currently studying a Master's Degree in Consumer Sciences and Nutrition at the University of Porto.
He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Kent and has worked at the European Central Bank and Banco de Portugal. He was a professor at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management and assistant professor at Instituto Superior Técnico.
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
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.
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.
She was born in 1993 and she is a journalist. The newsroom at the «i» newspaper and the «Sol» weekly newspaper was her first home, where she began in 2018, after completing a postgraduate degree in Multiplatform Journalism. She also worked at the «Expresso» and is now in the «Sábado» newsroom.
He is currently executive administrator of the Oceano Azul Foundation. He was an advisor on issues related to the Environment, Science and the Sea for the President of Portugal. He was a member of the Office of the European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs (2004-2010), working as Coordinator at the European Commission for the development of the new EU Integrated Maritime Policy. He was appointed Coordinator of the Strategic Oceans Commission in 2002. Between 1997 and 2002, he was an Advisor at the Permanent Mission of Portugal to the United Nations, in charge of ocean affairs, and represented the EU at the United Nations General Assembly for Ocean Affairs during the Portuguese and French Presidencies of the EU in 2000.
He was awarded the Pessoa Prize 2021 and he received the European Citizen Award from the European Parliament for his work in promoting ocean governance in the United Nations, the European Union and Portugal in 2016.
