Economy

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

Professor of International Law and Organizations at Columbia Law School, with the title of Henry L. Moses Professor. She is also the director of Columbia’s Center for European Legal Studies and a Senior Researcher at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at Columbia Business School.
She specialises in EU law, digital regulation, international trade law and international and comparative antitrust law.
She is the author of «The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World» (OUP 2020), which was named one of the best books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. More recently, she released «Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology», published by Oxford University Press in September 2023, and recognised as one of the best books of 2023 by the Financial Times.

Last updated: May 2024

He has been a journalist and infographic designer for the “Público” newspaper since 2016. He has been recognised with more than three dozen national and international awards and mentions in infographics.
With a degree in Graphic Design, he has taken part in several world congresses on infographics at the Malofiej workshop in the University of Navarra - Pamplona, Spain.
He studied programming languages at Formabase.
His work focuses on producing infographics for paper and online and creating new digital visual narratives.

Journalist, infographic designer and illustrator for the "Público" newspaper since 2006. He previously worked for the Impala and Cofina Media groups.
He has won more than dozens of national and international awards and mentions in infographics, online infographics, animated infographics and illustration.
He took part in the Malofiej workshop at the University of Navarra - Pamplona, Spain, in 2009, and has been to several world congresses. In Portugal, he completed a workshop in storytelling through infographics at the Instituto Superior de Gestão.
With a background in design, he decided to invest in web design training at LX School (Flag) and, more recently, in programming language at Formabase.
His work focuses on producing infographics for paper and online and creating new digital visual narratives with a large illustrative component.

Last updated: November 2023

Lawyer and tax associate at Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Law and Management from Católica Porto Business School and from the Catholic University of Lisbon School of Law in Porto (2020).

Last updated: October 2023

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