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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

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre-Performance, a postgraduate degree in Dramaturgy and Scriptwriting and a master’s degree in Journalism.
She won the Aldónio Gomes Prize for her work (Out of)Control in 2016.
She is a journalist at the «Mensagem de Lisboa».

Last updated: may 2025

He was the 68th US Secretary of State between 2013 and 2017. As the country's chief diplomat, he defined the State Department's strategy for nuclear non-proliferation, combating radical extremism and climate change. His tenure was distinguished by his success in negotiating the nuclear agreement with Iran and the Paris Agreement. Between 1985 and 2013, he was the senator for Massachusetts and between 2009 and 2013 he chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He served in the US Navy, with two tours of duty in Vietnam, for which he received a Silver Star and a Bronze Star for bravery in combat, as well as three Purple Hearts. He graduated from Yale University and specialised in law at Boston College Law School. Author of the bestsellers «A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better America and This Moment on Earth», Secretary of State John Kerry published a memoir entitled «Every Day Is Extra» in 2018. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow for Global Affairs at Yale University, as well as a Visiting Distinguished Statesman at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

After working for SIC as producer and correspondent, she attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism (New York). Since then, she has dedicated herself to reporting from danger zones: She worked undercover to report on the mujahideen crossing from Syria into Iraq; she camped in the Amazon jungle to cover the dispute between indigenous tribes and miners over the largest diamond mine in South America; and she travelled on the «Train of Death», which carries migrants from Central America to the US, etc. She has received several journalistic awards, as well as an Emmy nomination. She is a correspondent for National Geographic's Explorer series.

A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.

Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Potsdam and Professor of Global Sustainability and Aquatic Systems at Stockholm University.
He gained international recognition for developing the concept of “planetary barriers”, which has become the paradigm of sustainability science. He received the prestigious Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) and was considered one of the most influential and cited scientists in the world by Clarivate Analytics.
He founded the Stockholm Resilience Centre and was Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute. He holds a PhD in Natural Resource Management from Stockholm University, a Master’s degree in Science and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy.
He was awarded the Climate Change Award (2020) by Prince Albert II of Monaco, the Hillary Laureate (2017), the knighthood of the French National Order of the Legion of Honor (2016), the German Environmental Prize (2015) and the Cosmos Prize (2015).

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

She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA and is a Professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE). She has extensive experience in project coordination and her main areas of interest are Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, with an emphasis on the economic valuation of environmental goods and the formulation of models with application to natural resources. Her work has been published in international scientific journals such as the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Land Economics, Environment & Resource Economics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Energy Economics and Ecological Economics. She has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Environment and Development Economics since 2008 and of the journal Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales (EARN) since 2014. She was Vice-President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) and President-elect of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (AERNA) between 2008 and 2012. She has been scientific co-director of the Nova Environmental Economics Knowledge Centre since November 2017, the year the knowledge centre was launched. She is also Portugal's representative at EAERE and the Nova SBE representative on the Academic Council of Nova 4, the Globe interdisciplinary platform at Nova University Lisbon.

Last updated: October 2021

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