Economy

Assistant professor at Lusófona University (Lisbon) and researcher at Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies (CICANT).
She holds a PhD in Political Science from ICS-ULisbon, a master's and a bachelor's degrees in Political Science from the Technical University of Lisbon (ISCSP-UTL).
Her research focuses on Comparative Politics, Autonomous Regions (Portugal and Spain), regional elections, regional/territorial politics, and research methods.

Last update: september 2026

Céline Abecassis-Moedas is pro-rector and associate professor (with Agregation) in Strategy and Innovation Management at Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics where she was the Dean for Executive Education (2019-2024).
She is nonexecutive director at Vista Alegre Atlantis and Lectra (technology supplier for the fashion industry). Céline holds a PhD in Management from École Polytechnique, Paris and an MA in Management (Université Paris Dauphine). She is a graduate from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan and La Sorbonne in Economics and Management.
Céline Abecassis-Moedas was assistant professor at the Centre for Business Management at Queen Mary-University of London and she worked in Business Development at Lectra in New York and as a Consultant at AT Kearney in London. She was as International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research in innovation management focuses on the role of design and design thinking, it was published in top Journals in the field.

Last update: august 2026

Brookings Instituion is considered the largest and most prestigious think tank in the United States.
Founded in 1916, Brookings Institution's work focuses primarily on the study of the social sciences, fiscal policy, the quality of democracy and foreign policy.
It is a private, non-profit organisation whose mission is to conduct in-depth, non-partisan research to improve policies and governance at regional, national and global levels.
It is a partner of the Foundation in the study «Europe’s energy transition: Balancing the trilemma», which included the publication of a series of policy papers on this topic.

Last update: july 2024

Luís Bento has a Bachelor's degree in Languages and Modern Literature and a Master's degree in Communication Sciences.
He has worked as a teacher, in banking, in content moderation and in the pharmaceutical industry.
He has written several books of poetry, published short stories in collections and works with Meer magazine.
Nowadays, he juggles his literary work with his job as a consultant in an information technology company, under the scope of a banking project.

Last update: may 2026

Paulo Miguel Rodrigues has a Bachelor’s degree in History (1992) and a Master’s degree (1999) and PhD (2007) in Contemporary History from the Universities of Lisbon and of Madeira. Currently, he is an associate professor at the University of Madeira School of Arts and Humanities.
He has written several books about contemporary history and culture, mainly on topics related to the politics and the institutions of Madeira during the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as on the History of Autonomy. He has published dozens of articles in academic and other journals, book chapters and Congress Proceedings (national and international), where he also looks at the inclusion of the Madeira archipelago in the framework of International Relations and the History of Portuguese Diplomacy.
In 2021, he published Dicionário Breve da História da Autonomia da Madeira (A Short Dictionary of the Autonomy of Madeira).

Last updated: april 2026

Ed Conway is a writer and broadcaster. He is the Economics and Data Editor of Sky News and the author of a number of books including the award-winning bestseller «Material World», an Economist and Sunday Times Book of the Year. «Material World» was shortlisted for a host of awards, including the «Financial Times»/Schroders Book of the Year and British Academy Prize. It was the winner of the Handelsblatt/Goldman Sachs German Business Book Award and the Galileo Prize for scientific literature (Italy). Ed Conway has won numerous awards for his television and newspaper journalism, most recently the 2024 London Press Club Business Journalist of the Year, and has written for various publications, including «The New York Times», the «Times of London» and the «New Statesman». He was educated at Oxford and Harvard. He lives in London.

Last update: march 2026

Director at the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (ECFIN) at the European Commission. She oversees the work on economic surveillance and policy coordination for the economies of 9 Member States which includes monitoring, analysing, and forecasting their economic and fiscal developments.
She is also the lead negotiator for these Member States in the context of the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility.
Before that, she headed the ECFIN Unit dealing with competitiveness and structural reforms.
Isabel started her career as a scholar and researcher holding several positions at the Catholique University of Louvain (UCL) and at the University of Lille.
She holds a Ph.D in Economics and has a solid publication record in the areas of game theory, industrial economics and entrepreneurship which target theoretical and analytical questions as well as policy-design ones.

Last update: march 2026