Economy

A lawyer, he is a tax partner at Garrigues. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Lisbon School of Law. He holds an LL.M. (with honours, Dean's List) from Georgetown University Law Centre.
He was a member of the IRC Reform Commission (2014).

Last updated: October 2023

Lawyer, he was a partner at Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Catholic University of Lisbon School of Law. He was Secretary of State for Tax Affairs in the 19th and 20th Constitutional Governments and is currently parliamentary leader of the CDS-PP.

Last updated: April 2024

Economist in the Bank of Portugal’s Economics and Research Department and PhD student in Economics at Nova SBE. He previously worked as an economic consultant for the National Bank of Angola and as an intern at the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.
His research interests focus mainly on empirical macroeconomics and both fiscal and monetary policy.

Last updated: October 2023

Dean and Full Professor at the Arison School of Business at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel. He holds a degree in Computer Science and a PhD from Tel Aviv University, where he also earned an MBA. His research focuses on the theory of the multinational corporation, technological innovation, diversification and growth patterns of high-tech companies and has been published in leading journals on strategy, management, international business and innovation.
Before joining Reichman University, he was a tenured faculty member at Hebrew University's School of Business Administration, where he also served as Vice Dean, Director of the Asper Centre for Entrepreneurship, Director of the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department and Academic Director of the EMBA program.
He is a visiting professor at the Alliance Manchester School of Business and has also taught at institutions such as New York University.
He is Co-founder of the Entrepreneurship Centre at the Hebrew University and of the Israel Strategy Conference (ISC).

Last updated: August 2023

Pedro S. Martins is Professor of Economics at Nova SBE in Carcavelos. He received his PhD in 2004 from the University of Warwick in the UK. His research area is labour economics, and he has published his studies in several international academic journals. He specialises in topics such as employment, wages, vocational training and education. He has authored several reports for international organisations, including the European Commission, the ILO, the IMF, the OECD and the World Bank. He was Secretary of State for Employment in the Portuguese Government (2011-2013).

Last updated: August 2023

He has been Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto since 2022, as well as an Associate Member of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, in the UK, after having worked in the Economic Studies Department of the Bank of Portugal and the Research Office of the Portuguese Securities Market Commission (CMVM). He completed a PhD and a research Master's Degree in Economics at the London School of Economics, and a Master's Degree and Bachelor's degree in Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics, having taught at both institutions.
His primary focus is labour economics and applied microeconometrics, having more recently developed scientific activity in urban economics. His work seeks to understand how regulatory and public policy frameworks affect market balance and dynamics, from both a theoretical and empirical perspective. His scientific work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Econometrics and the British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Last updated: July 2023

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2000 for his work in microeconometrics, he is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago and Director of its Center for the Economics of Human Development.
He has dedicated his career to understanding the origins of the main social and economic problems linked to inequality, social mobility, discrimination, training and regulating qualifications, as well as designing and evaluating alternative strategies for dealing with these challenges.

Last updated: July 2023

Designer specialising in refurbishment, he owns a home refurbishment, architecture and interior design company in Matosinhos.

Last updated: May 2023

Senior Media Analyst at Oban International, she has also worked as a teacher and translator. She began her career as a freelance sound technician.

Last updated: November 2023