Economy

Director of the Bank of Portugal, she holds a PhD in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the New University of Lisbon and a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Porto. Her area of specialisation is public economics. She was a member of the board of directors of the Portuguese Trade & Investment Agency (AICEP) and Lecturer at the Católica Porto Business School of the Portuguese Catholic University in Porto, where she taught macroeconomics and geopolitics, among others.

Last updated: November 2023

Journalist at «Público» since 2017. He has also worked on the newspaper's podcasts. He has a PhD in Communication Sciences.

Last update: june 2022

He became Mayor of Braga in 2013, after working with the municipality since 2001, first as a member of the Municipal Assembly and then as a Councillor.
He is currently Vice-Chairman of the Board of the cross-border association of municipalities «Atlantic Axis of the Northwest Peninsula», Chairman of the Executive Board of the Intermunicipal Community of Cávado and Chairman of the Boards of Directors of the municipal companies Theatro Circo and InvestBraga. He is a member of the Executive Committee of EUROCITIES, the Executive Committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors, the Committee of the Regions and the board of ATP – Associação de Turismo do Porto.
He has a degree in economics from the Faculty of Economics of Porto and an Advanced Course in Political Studies from the IEP, Catholic University of Lisbon.
He was Secretary General of the Portuguese Association of Financial Analysts and director of the Euronext Lisbon Capital Markets Institute. For several years, he worked as a public and business consultant and Lecturer at Universidade Fernando Pessoa, ISAG – Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão do Porto, Universidade Lusíada and IESF – Instituto Superior de Estudos Financeiros e Fiscais.

Last updated: June 2023

Former CEO and member of the Executive Committee and of the Board of Directors of the Foundation, David Lopes holds a college degree in Business Management. He was until September 2014 the President of the international area of Daymon Worldwide (a leading global company in consumers’ brand development) where he was also responsible for managing international joint ventures, business operations development and expansion in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He previously was General Manager at Daymon Portugal for three years, where he led the team that established the hub which became the basis of this North American international business in Europe. He transitioned from this role to serve as CEO of the leading Portugese wholesaler «Recheio Cash & Carry» before rejoining Daymon. His professional career also includes leadership positions in the polish company Biedronka and as member of the Board of Directors of the companies «Parque Expo», «Oceanário de Lisboa» and «Fundação do Gil». He is a founding member of the Portuguese Diaspora Council.

Last updated: april 2020

Graduated in Marine Biology from Lisbon Classic University, in 1986, with executive education at IMD (1995) and Harvard (1997), and Alumni Member of Stanford (2000). Executive President of Sociedade Francisco Manuel dos Santos B.V., the main shareholder of Jerónimo Martins, SGPS, S.A., since its establishment in 2012. Member of the Board of Directors of Jerónimo Martins SGPS, S.A. from 1995 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2015. He is a Non-Executive Director of the Company since April 2019. Chairman of Unilever Fima, Lda., Gallo Worldwide, Lda., JMDB Representação e Distribuição de Marcas Lda. and miMed, Cuidados de Saúde S.A. Chairman of Movendo Capital B.V., since 2017. Since May 2020, he is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, of which he was a Board Member from 2009 to 2018. Since September 2015, he is the Chairman of Oceanário de Lisboa, S.A., and, since December 2016, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of the Oceano Azul Foundation.

Last updated: may 2020

Bosch’s representative in Portugal since 2015, he also manages Bosch Car Multimedia in Braga. He has a degree in global leadership and management (Japan) and from Carnegie Mellon University. His strategic priorities include a permanent commitment to innovation and developing highly technological products, as well as growing Bosch's activities in Portugal.

Last updated: October 2018

She has a PhD in Economics (magna cum laude) and was awarded the MSC prize for the Best Master’s Thesis by the University of Antwerp. She has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from ISEG and a Master’s degree in Transport from Instituto Superior Técnico. Throughout her career, she has worked at AICEP in Buenos Aires, at the Port and Maritime Transport Institute, as Director of TIS in Sao Paulo and as Senior Consultant at Luxmobility. She works as an adjunct professor at the United Business Institutes in Luxembourg.

She is an associate professor in the department of Political Science and Public Policy at ISCTE-IUL, where she coordinates the Master's degree in Political Science, and a researcher at CIES-ISCTE. She has been involved in several research projects related to the themes of democracy, political participation, representation, electoral promises and political decision-making. She has published the results of her research in a number of national and international journals, books and book chapters.

Last updated: May 2022

Minister of State and Finance. He was a member of the Portuguese Parliament and President of the PSD Parliamentary Group between 2022 and 2024.
He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Tilburg (Netherlands), he is an assistant professor with aggregation at the ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management and a visiting professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Rio de Janeiro). He is a researcher at ADVANCE – Research Centre in Management, at the same university.

Last updated: April 2024

He was born in Olhão. He has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and he received the Young Economist Award from the European Economic Association in 2001 and the Latin Union Scientific Merit Award in 2006. He is deputy director of the Economic Studies department in Banco de Portugal. His research area is the labour economy, a subject he has published articles on in several international scientific journals. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and he is on the Roll of Honour at ISEG-UTL, as well as a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the same university. He was on the Committee on the White Paper on Labour Relations in 2007. He teaches at ISEG-UTL and ISEGI-UNL.

Last updated: January 2013