Economy

President of the Portuguese Association of Banks and member of the General Council of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance. He is also on the board of the Professional Women Network (PWN) Lisbon.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics, a Master’s degree and a PhD in Philosophy and he is a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Portugal.
He was president of the institute that manages Public Debt, Director General of the Treasury, director of the foreign department at Banco de Portugal and administrator of the Macao Issuer Institute (current Monetary Authority). He was a member of the EU Monetary Committee and played an active role in the tasks of preparing the EMU at national and European level. He is active in civil society and was president of Sedes.
He regularly comments on economic and financial issues. He has written several books.

Last updated: December 2023

He is an emeritus professor at the University of Lisbon School of Sciences. He has devoted himself to teaching and research in theoretical nuclear physics, astrophysics and, since 1987, in environmental sciences, global changes and sustainability, and is currently President of the National Council for Environment and Sustainable Development. His latest book is «Time, Progress, Growth and Technology».

Last updated: May 2021

Professor of Finance and holder of the Max L. Heine Chair at New York University's Stern School of Business. He was named one of the «25 most promising economists under 45» by the IMF in 2014. He won the Bernácer Prize in 2013 for the best European economist under 40, the Michael Brennan & BlackRock Prize in 2010, the Prize for the Best Young French Economist in 2009 and the Brattle Prize for the best article on Corporate Finance in 2008. He has studied various topics in the fields of macroeconomics and finance: systemic risk and the financial crisis, the dynamics of corporate investment and household debt, innovation and financial regulation and the Eurozone crisis. His latest book «The Great Reversal» (Harvard Press, 2019) focuses on the growing market power of large companies. He serves as Academic Consultant for the Financial Stability Board and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research. He was a Consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a member of the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority of the Banque de France between 2014 and 2019 and Senior Economic Advisor to the French Minister of Finance from 2012-2013.

BPI / «La Caixa» Foundation professor of Health Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics, Nova University Lisbon. He is on the EC Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health, the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences, the EU Cancer Mission Board and the National Health Council and is a member of the board of the Institute of Public Policy – Thomas Jefferson – Correia da Serra.

Last updated: May 2013

He is an associate professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE) in Lisbon. He got his PhD in Economics from Stockholm University in Sweden, where he also taught between 2007 and 2014.
He taught at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He worked as a researcher at the European Central Bank and was a fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.
He carried out research at the Centre for Economics and Finance at the University of Porto until 2019. His research focuses on the interaction between micro-heterogeneity and macroeconomic dynamics, particularly on the topics of fiscal policy and optimal taxation.
He has published several papers in international scientific journals, such as the Journal of Monetary Economics or the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and contributed to the second edition of the Handbook of Macroeconomics.

Last updated: April 2024

Associate Partner, EY-Parthenon Portugal, Ernst & Young, S.A. Leads EY-Parthenon's Government and Public Sector team. He is a visiting professor at the University of Lisbon, where he teaches Macroeconomics and Economic Policy. Throughout his 30 years of professional experience, he has coordinated studies and projects on regional and sector analysis, impact measurement and evaluation, foresight and regional planning, monitoring and follow-up of regional and sector plans and strategies, as well as specific studies on the Portuguese and European economies.

President of the European Association of Law & Economics. He is a Professor of Law at George Mason University in the United States and holds the Chair in Research Innovation at Católica Global Law School.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Nova University Lisbon, holds a Master's degree in Economics and Law (LL.M.) from the University of London and a PhD in Economics from the University of York, UK.
He joined the Executive Board of the American Society for Comparative Law (2021-2023), after having chaired the Spanish Association of Law and Economics between 2017 and 2021. He has taught at Texas A&M University (2015-2018), the University of Illinois (2007-2015), Nova University Lisbon (2001-2007) and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (1998-2001).
He was awarded the Julián Marías prize by the government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid in 2010. He has written more than 150 scientific articles published in international journals.
He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos between 2014 and 2016 and has been a member of its Board of Trustees since 2018.

Last updated: January 2024

Full professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine and obstetrician and gynaecologist at Santa Maria Hospital. He was the first elected president of the National Council for Ethics in Life Sciences (2009-2015), he is coordinator of three projects on sexual and reproductive health in the European Union (2003-2010) and was elected vice-president of the Bioethics department of the Council of Europe (2018-2019). He has published very widely on bioethics issues.