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Former CEO and member of the Executive Committee and of the Board of Directors of the Foundation, David Lopes holds a college degree in Business Management. He was until September 2014 the President of the international area of Daymon Worldwide (a leading global company in consumers’ brand development) where he was also responsible for managing international joint ventures, business operations development and expansion in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He previously was General Manager at Daymon Portugal for three years, where he led the team that established the hub which became the basis of this North American international business in Europe. He transitioned from this role to serve as CEO of the leading Portugese wholesaler «Recheio Cash & Carry» before rejoining Daymon. His professional career also includes leadership positions in the polish company Biedronka and as member of the Board of Directors of the companies «Parque Expo», «Oceanário de Lisboa» and «Fundação do Gil». He is a founding member of the Portuguese Diaspora Council.

Last updated: april 2020

António Barreto was born in Porto on 30th October, 1942. He lived in Vila Real until he finished secondary school, after which he attended Coimbra Law Faculty. He lived in Switzerland as a political exile from 1963 to 1974, graduating in Sociology in 1968. He worked at the University of Geneva and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development before returning to Portugal in 1974. He worked as a professor at the Social and Human Sciences and Law Faculty at Lisbon's Universidade Nova, as a researcher at Universidade Católica and the Social Sciences Institute of Universidade de Lisboa until 2008. He gained his Doctorate in Sociology in 1985 from the University of Geneva. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly and the Portuguese Parliament, Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Minister for Trade and Tourism and Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries. He was also the winner of the Montaigne Prize of 2004. He has been a member of the Academia das Ciências since 2008, Chairman of the Board of the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation since 2009 and a columnist for the «Público» newspaper since 1991. His published work includes, «Anatomia de uma Revolução», «Tempo de Mudança», «Sem Emenda», «Tempo de Incerteza», «A Situação Social em Portugal», «1960-1999» and «Anos Difíceis».

Film critic, screenwriter, director and manager of the Cinema area for Guimarães 2012 – European Capital of Culture. He is a professor at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and wrote for Seara Nova and Cinéfilo magazines and the A Luta and Expresso newspapers. He currently works with the Diário de Notícias newspaper.

Last updated: November 2023

Author of the books of literary non-fiction «Now and at the Hour of Our Death» (translated into English, French and Spanish), «How Long is a Day» and, more recently, «Black Scarves, Straw Hats and Gold Earrings» (Companhia das Letras). Her work has been published in magazines such as «Granta», «Tin House” and «Literary Hub», and in media such as the «Público» newspaper, Antena 1, «Business Journal», the BBC World Service and «Message».

Last updated: December 2023

He has a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from Nova University Lisbon and a PhD in History of Education from the University of Lisbon. He has published work in the area of the History of Discoveries, the History of Women and the History of Education. He has been a teacher since 1987 and has been in charge of education since 2003. Contributes to the «Jornal de Letras», with texts on education, past, present or even future.

Last updated: December 2023

Assistant Professor at Nova University Lisbon. Her research focuses on institutional change in the European Union and coalition governments, subjects on which she has published articles in journals such as the European Journal of Public Policy, West European Politics and Party Politics. She has written "Coalition Government and Party Mandate: How coalition agreements constrain ministerial action" (Routledge, 2012) and "Changing rules of delegation: A contest of Power for comitology" (with A. Héritier, C. Bisschoff and C-F. Bergström, Oxford University Press, 2012). Her article "Explaining the European Parliament's Right to Appoint and Invest the Commission: Interstitial institutional change", published in West European Politics in 2007, was awarded the Vincent Wright Memorial Prize and the Gulbenkian Prize for the Internationalisation of Social Sciences. Among other subjects, she teaches Comparative Political Systems and European Union Institutions.

Last updated: May 2014

Nuno Crato is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Lisbon, having taught in Lisbon, Azores and the United States. His research work is focused on time series for financial, biological and computational applications. He is a Visiting Scientist at the JRC Centre, in Italy, where he analyses the impact of policy measures based on micro-data. He was the President of the International Symposium on Forecasting (2000), Coordinator and President of the Cemapre Research Centre (2006-2010), President of the Portuguese Mathematical Society (2004-2010) and President (CEO) of the Taguspark -- Science and Technology Park (2010-2011). From 2011 to 2015, he was the Portuguese Minister for Education and Science. A prolific science communicator and intervener in education, he has published books in several languages and countries, including the United Kingdom, Italy and Brazil. For his works, he received prestigious awards from the European Mathematical Society and the European Commission. He was awarded the title of Commander and Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique.

Retired secondary school teacher of Romance languages, Portuguese and French. She coordinated the publication of «I Pass by yet I Stay, like the Universe», with Rui Mario Gonçalves, a book on painting influenced by Pessoa. She also wrote «About Fernando Pessoa – Drama Pessoa’s People and Wanderings in Lisbon» and «Art, the Master of Life». She coordinated the fixing of the text of «Eastern Ethiopia and Stories of Noteworthy Things of the East» by Friar João dos Santos (National Commission for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries, 1999). He has published numerous articles on the teaching of Portuguese in daily and weekly newspapers. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Romance Philology and a Master's degree in Travel Literature.

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.

He is a research economist in the Department of Economic Studies (area of structural studies) at the Bank of Portugal and a visiting assistant professor at the Catholic University of Portugal. He is a member of the research unit of CATÓLICA-LISBON, IZA – Institute for the Study of Labour, GLO – Global Labour Organisation and Iniciativa Educação. He has a PhD in Economics from UCL – University College London and was a short-term consultant at the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. His research topics include human capital, the economics of education, programme evaluation, the labour market, microeconometrics and economic development. He has published several papers in international peer-reviewed journals, including the International Economic Review, Labour Economics and the Journal of Population Economics.