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Francisca Osório de Castro
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
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Miguel Cortez Pimentel
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
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Paulo Núncio
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
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Afonso Souto de Moura
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
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Niron Hashai
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
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Pedro Martins
Full professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. He obtained his PhD in 2005 from the University of Warwick.
He is currently co-director of the Nova School of Business and Economics Public Policy Institute, director of the Economics for Policy Knowledge Centre and a member of the Economics of Education Knowledge Centre at Nova School of Business and Economics.
He is also chair of the scientific council of the Association of Entrepreneurs for Social Inclusion and an external evaluator for the Education Initiative.
He is currently working on a study on «Vocational Education, Higher Education and the Labour Market: An Analysis of Cross-Referenced Individual Data» for PLANAPP — Centre for Planning and Evaluation of Public Policies — and the Foundation for Science and Education.
He has published various articles in international academic journals in the fields of labour economics and the economics of education.

Last updated: July 2025
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Hugo de Almeida Vilares
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
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James Heckman
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