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He runs the Teak Capital fund, is a partner in the Horizon Equity Partners fund, vice-chairman of Sonae Indústria, and sits on the board of the Serralves Foundation. He recently stepped down as chairman of the BA Glass group after 22 years running the company.
He has accumulated decades of experience in company management, running dozens of companies in a wide variety of areas - here we name just a few. He was chairman of the Board of Directors of Sonae Retalho Especializado, TVI - Televisão Independente and the Spanish company La Seda de Barcelona. He managed the EDP - Energias de Portugal group and was a member of the board of COTEC Portugal.
He taught at the University of Porto between 1975 and 1987. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto, a master's degree and a doctorate in Management from the University of Warwick, UK.

Last updated: december 2020

He is Rector of the University of Maia. He was Secretary of State for Higher Education and also for Science. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical and Industrial Engineering from the University of Porto and got his Master’s degree in Mathematics and PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Oxford (England). He has been teaching since 1968 and was Professor of Chemistry at the University of Porto School of Sciences until 2013. Researcher at the Chemistry Research Centre and then at the Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry. He was a member of the Portuguese parliament in the 11th legislature.

Last updated: March 2023

Lecturer at the School of Education of the Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute and one of the authors of the study "What science is learned at school?".

Last updated: November 2023

He was born in Porto in 1982. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Coimbra and a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Porto. He has a PhD in Digital Media (UT Austin | Portugal) from the University of Porto. He has taken part in several projects on the educational integration of digital media. He has published works on the subjects of digital media and science teaching in a number of national and international forums and journals.

Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Nova School of Business and Economics at Nova University Lisbon. She was Administrator of the National Communications Authority and Minister of Education in the 16th Constitutional Government. Her research has been in the area of Microeconomic Policy, in particular Economic Regulation. In recent years she has done research on Education Economics, co-authoring several articles in this area, including retention, the efficiency of publicly funded private schools, the impact of the publication of school rankings, sampling problems in PISA, decisive factors for success in higher education.

Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics (FC-UL) and PhD in Mathematics, specialising in Statistics (FCT-UNL). Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology – UL and researcher at the Business Research Unit – IUL in the area of Multivariate Data Analysis. She was National Project Manager for PISA-OECD and National Research Coordinator for TIMSS and PIRLS (2012 and 2013) and Scientific Coordinator on the aQeduto project.

He is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Porto School of Economics and a researcher at CIPES. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Porto. His research focuses on Philosophy and Economics, History of Economic Thought and Economics of Education.

Last updated: November 2023

He has a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Porto School of Economics. He has carried out research in the areas of Economic Growth and the Economic and Non-Economic Benefits of Education.