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She was a Público journalist for about 20 years. She wrote the novel «Terrinhas», which received the Agustina Bessa-Luís Revelation Award in 2021. She has written three non-fiction books, which are on the National Reading Plan: «Crazy things», «Your Father’s Name is not Sergeant» and «Daddy, Were You Afraid?»
She was among the finalists of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Journalism Prize twice (2015 and 2016). She received the King of Spain International Prize for Journalism in 2015, the Gazeta Multimedia Prize (2014), the AMI-Journalism Award against Indifference (2015) and the Orlando Gonçalves Literary Prize (2016).

Last updated: January 2024

She has a PhD in Educational Sciences, specialising in Analysis and Organisation of Teaching, from the University of Coimbra. She is the general coordinator of the Education Initiative, a project designed to promote the success of young people by supporting exemplary projects with a potential multiplier effect on the education system.
Between 2015 and 2019, she coordinated the studies team at the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, where, between 2010 and 2015, she was project and content manager in the areas of education, science and economics.

Last update: january 2023

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

She has a degree in psychology from the University of Lisbon's FPCE, studied film studies at Lisbon's ESTC, worked for RTP and, as a director for SIC, attended a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) course in TV Production.
She was a director for SIC from 1992 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2003 she completed the Advanced Programme in Political Journalism at the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2008, she was a documentaries advisor to RTP's Programme Direction. In March 2018, she unanimously received her PhD in contemporary history, specialising in empires, colonialism and post-colonialism, earning a distinction and praise for her work. In 2007, she was awarded the Lusophony Grand Prize for the documentary «The Prodigious Writer», a film about the life of Jorge de Sena, which she wrote and directed. In 2018 she was awarded the Fernando de Sousa prize by the European Commission for her work directing and co-authoring the screenplay for the 6-film documentary series Europa 30, shown on RTP2. In 2021 she premiered the documentary «Visions of Empire» at the DocLisboa festival, which she also directed and wrote.

last update: January 2023

Economics specialist at Oxford University, Senior Research associate at Oxford University's Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and Lecturer and Researcher at King's College, London. He is co-author of the bestseller «The Future of the Professions» (2015) and author of «A World Without Work» (2020), described by The New York Times as a «must-read for any potential presidential candidate thinking about the economy of the future». His TED Talk on the future of work has been viewed over 1.6 million times.

He has a master’s degree in legal and political sciences and a law degree. A professional lawyer with over 15 years’ experience, he has also been a member of Parliament (2011-2013) and Secretary of State for Tourism (2013-2015). Furthermore, he served as vice-president of the CDS-PP (2016-2019). He has been a commentator and columnist for SIC, TSF, Visão, Jornal de Negócios, Diário de Notícias and i.

Last updated: April 2023

Associate Professor at Católica Porto Business School. PhD in Management from the University of Cambridge, UK.

He was born in Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia in 1963. He has been a journalist since 1986 and writes and presents several programmes on SIC, TV Cine and RTP. He was deputy director of RTP 3. In addition to television, he works with several newspapers and magazines and is a radio chronicler, having spent much of his career working in the dissemination and analysis of cinema. He was the founder of SIC and he made several documentaries and wrote scripts for television. He works at RTP full time. He is the author of several film books, «Rear Window» and «As If It Were A Novel», as well as biographies of actors such as Charlie Chaplin and Philip Seymor Hoffman.