Environment

Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Lisbon School of Agriculture (ISA). She got her PhD in 1993 and is a professor at the same school. She directed the Botanic Garden in Ajuda. She designed the amphitheatre and has been in charge of restoration work at Quinta das Lágrimas since 2004. She is an international member of ICOMOS (UNESCO) on the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes. She founded the Historical Gardens Association in 2002. She is a corresponding member of the Academy of Fine Arts (2016) and was honoured by France with the «Ordre d’Officier des Arts et des Lettres» (2013). She also received a Special Commendation from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Last updated: may 2025

He has a PhD in Agricultural Economics and a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Lisbon (UL) School of Agriculture (ISA),. He was a visiting professor at the Food Research Institute, Stanford University and professor of Economics and Agricultural Policy, ISA, UL and has been emeritus professor, ISA, UL since 2008.
He was a founding partner and is a scientific coordinator of AGROGES (1989). Member of the groups of experts for the reform of CAP (Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union) and a member of the team responsible for the Carbon Neutral Roadmap 2050.

Photojournalist, World Press Photo award in the Daily Life category (2013). He began his career in the «Correio da Manhã» newspaper and has also worked at the Global Imagens agency, which distributes photos for newspapers such as the «Jornal de Notícias», «Diário de Notícias» and «O Jogo».
He was named Iberian-American photographer of the year at POY LATAM in 2017 and has also won several other awards.
His interest in the area of human rights has led him to document important stories, such as the albinos in Africa and illegal factories in Bangladesh for The New York Times, a newspaper he works with. On his most recent journey, he travelled across Africa on an electric bicycle, from Cape Town in South Africa to Nairobi in Kenya, a total of 6,363 km. His goal was to promote sustainability and call attention to climate change on that continent.

Last updated: December 2024

Former Minister of the Economy and university professor for 42 years at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG), Augusto Mateus has studied the country's economic reality and territorial inequalities.
Currently Chairman and Non-Executive Chairman of a consultancy firm he founded in 1998, he has conducted numerous studies on the factors of national growth and development.
As a researcher, he has coordinated and prepared economic analyses of city policy and business strategy for local authorities and public and private entities. The studies carried out by his office have also analysed the potential of what is known as the creative economy and creative culture for the country’s competitiveness, and have created models for evaluating and measuring this impact on regional development.
He held political office twice during the António Guterres governments, first as Secretary of State for Industry (1995-1996) and then as Minister for the Economy (1996-1997).
He has a postgraduate degree in International Economics and Human Resources Economics from the University of Paris X. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Instituto Superior de Ciências Económicas e Financeiras (ISCEF), at Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. He was born in Lisbon in 1950.

He holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College and a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities. He was deputy director of the Centre for International Studies at Iscte-IUL, where he teaches and directs the PhD in History and Security and Defence Studies, in partnership with the Military Academy. He was deputy to the Minister of National Defence (2019-2022). He is a guest professor at the Institute of Political Studies at UCP and, in the 2024-25 academic year, he will be a FLAD guest professor at Georgetown University in Washington. He has published several articles and books, including the essay "Can Portugal have a Strategy?" (2019) published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: June 2024

Journalist, television newsreader and Deputy Director of RTP. With a degree in sociology, he began his professional career in 1989 at Rádio Comercial and worked for Antena 1 and TSF, before moving to television two years later. He became an anchor at RTP and presented various news programmes. He moved to SIC between 2000 and 2001 before returning to RTP, where he became Deputy Director of Information and Deputy Director of RTPN. He spent half a year heading up information for the new Channel 11 before once more returning to RTP.

Last updated: May 2022

Multi-award-winning photojournalist and director of films on natural history. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine and also has over a thousand articles and reports published in the national and international press.
He gives classes on nature photography and film-making on land and underwater.
He was part of the large photographic project on nature in Europe – Wild Wonders of Europe – and has won national and international awards. He has had several solo photo exhibitions and worked on many others, in Portugal and abroad. Many of his natural history photos have been shown on channels such as the National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, ARTE TV France, TV Globo, SIC, RTP and many more. The documentary Portugal’s Mountains of Wonder, which he co-wrote, is currently on Netflix in Europe.
He has written a number of books and worked on many others, particularly «The Sea of My Home – Atlantic Almada» (April 2023).
He was honoured by the Portuguese government for his work in the area of underwater photography in 2004 and was named one of the «New Heroes of the Sea».

Last updated: August 2024

Expert on German, European, and trans-Atlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. She is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and the inaugural holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations at Brookings. She held the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress from October 2019 to March 2020, and served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at Brookings from 2014 to 2019.
Her areas of expertise include: trans-Atlantic relations; German foreign policy; NATO; the European Union’s foreign, security, and defense policy; international law; and human rights.
Stelzenmüller’s essays and articles, in both German and English, have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Internationale Politik, the Washington Post and Süddeutsche Zeitung. She writes a monthly column in the Financial Times.
She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn (1992), a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1988), and a law degree from the University of Bonn (1985).

Last update: july 2024

Director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative and a fellow in Foreign Policy. Her work is focused on the intersection of energy, environment, and policy, including climate policy and international cooperation, the transition to net-zero emissions energy system, energy geopolitics, and global energy markets. Se has more than 25 years of experience in energy and environmental affairs.
In 2021, Samantha Gross was a Brookings Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Fellow in Berlin. She has been a visiting fellow at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, where she authored work on clean energy cooperation and on post-Paris climate policy. She was director of the Office of International Climate and Clean Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, a Master of Science in environmental engineering from Stanford, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Last update: july 2024

He is an environmental engineer with a degree from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a master's degree from Virginia Tech in the United States, and a PhD from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
He is an Associate Professor in the area of the environment at the Faculty of Science and Technology of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCT) and a member of CENSE (Centre for Research into the Environment and Sustainability), part of the CHANGE Associated Laboratory.
President of Associação Zero – Sustainable Earth Association, created in 2015 to advocate for sustainability in Portuguese society.