Education

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.

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Portugal, and an integrated researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, where she promotes the working group Mind, Brain and Education. She is an education psychologist, has a PhD in Health Sciences and co-authored «When your Son’s Brain goes to School» (2017) and «Neuromyths» (2020). She has allied research and the dissemination of transdisciplinary science.

Last updated: April 2024

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Porto (FEP-UP) and Vice-Rector of the University of Porto. Director of CIPES – Higher Education Policy Research Centre. Consultant to the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic for Higher Education and Science (since April 2016). Member of the Education Council of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos (since 2013) and of the CNE – National Education Council (since 2014). Member of the Board of Directors of the Bial Foundation (since 2015).

Last updated: November 2017