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Director of INESC TEC Institution and coordinator of the TEC4Energy business development unit.
Emeritus full professor at the University of Porto.
He is co-author of more than 500 publications and co-editor of the book «Electric Vehicles Integration into Modern Power Networks» from Springer.
He supervised several consulting projects related with the impact analysis of the connection of wind parks in the electrical grids of Madeira, Azores, Sal, S. Vicente and S. Tiago, in the Republic of Cabo Verde. He was the responsible for several consultancy projects related with the electrical grid impact resulting from the connection of large wind parks in Portugal.

Last updated: march 2026

Innovation-driven executive with a strong background in energy technology and policy, digital transformation, and strategic partnerships. As Innovation Director at Cleanwatts Digital, she leads initiatives that accelerate the energy transition through smart technologies, regulatory foresight, and collaborative ecosystems.
Winner of the «Women in Energy» award in 2022.

Last update: november 2024

Lawyer and university lecturer in tax law and controlled substances law.
He is a Founding Partner of Gama Glória LLP, Lisbon, Senior Consultant at Albright Stonebridge Group/Denton Global Advisors (Washington DC) and lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal.
Additionally, he advises international companies, governments and patient groups on the regulation, use, production and trade of controlled substances for medical, religious, spiritual and recreational purposes.
He also offers consultancy to NGOs advocating harm reduction and responsible adult use of cannabis, psychedelics and entheogenic plants.
A regular speaker on narcotics law and drug policy worldwide, he has published «The Regulation of Medical Cannabis in Portugal» (Brazil, 2019), «Regulate and Protect: Towards A New Drug Policy» (Lisbon, 2022) and «Psychedelic Law» (2023).

Last updated: July  2024

Expert on German, European, and trans-Atlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. She is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and the inaugural holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations at Brookings. She held the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress from October 2019 to March 2020, and served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at Brookings from 2014 to 2019.
Her areas of expertise include: trans-Atlantic relations; German foreign policy; NATO; the European Union’s foreign, security, and defense policy; international law; and human rights.
Stelzenmüller’s essays and articles, in both German and English, have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Internationale Politik, the Washington Post and Süddeutsche Zeitung. She writes a monthly column in the Financial Times.
She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn (1992), a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1988), and a law degree from the University of Bonn (1985).

Last update: july 2024

Director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative and a fellow in Foreign Policy. Her work is focused on the intersection of energy, environment, and policy, including climate policy and international cooperation, the transition to net-zero emissions energy system, energy geopolitics, and global energy markets. Se has more than 25 years of experience in energy and environmental affairs.
In 2021, Samantha Gross was a Brookings Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Fellow in Berlin. She has been a visiting fellow at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, where she authored work on clean energy cooperation and on post-Paris climate policy. She was director of the Office of International Climate and Clean Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, a Master of Science in environmental engineering from Stanford, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Last update: july 2024