Environment

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.

Historian of science, with significant contributions to the philosophy and sociology of science. She published a hugely influential article (in Science magazine in 2004) quantifying the scientific consensus on climate change. She co-authored the book «Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from «Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming» (2010) and recently published Why Trust Science?» (2019). She is a columnist for «Scientific American» magazine.

Last updated: October 2020

Head of Sustainability at The Navigator Company, the largest private forestry producer in Portugal, responsible for 107,000 hectares of forest.

Executive Chairman of the Mestre Casais Foundation and Professor of Regional and Urban Systems at the University of Minho.
He was Secretary of State for the Environment, Secretary of State for Mobility, Secretary of State for Planning and Member of Parliament.
He was Chairman of the Transport Decarbonization Alliance (2017-2019), a global alliance of countries, cities and companies promoting decarbonisation of transport by 2050. He was a consultant and evaluator for the European Commission (2000-2015). As a professor and researcher, he has worked at various universities in Italy, Poland, the US, Brazil and Mozambique. He is a civil engineer, with a doctorate and habilitation in regional and urban systems, as well as postgraduate degrees from the University of Oxford, Harvard and University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE).

An agronomist with a degree from the University of Évora, he owns Herdade da Parreira, an estate of over 800 hectares in Montemor-o-Novo, as well as the company Bovicer – Bovinos e Cereais, Lda., which produces 220 hectares of irrigated fodder crops and autumn-winter cereals, rears beef cattle and manages a considerable area of cork oak and holm oak forests. The company follows conservation agriculture practices, prioritising soil conservation.

Manager and Founder of Do Zero, an online business that has grown into a physical shop serving the needs of environmentally conscious consumers concerned with reuse and recycling.

Architect and Founder of Do Zero, an online business that has grown into a physical shop serving the needs of environmentally conscious consumers concerned with reuse and recycling.

Professor in the Department of Landscape, Environment and Planning at the University of Évora. She is a geographer with a degree from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, an MSc from Arlon, Belgium (Diplome Européen en Sciences de l'Environment), and a PhD in Geography from the University of Copenhagen.
She is Director of MED – Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Course Director of the Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Landscape Management and of the Doctoral Programme in Landscape Biodiversity and Society.

Lead Researcher at the Energy Systems Centre and member of the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science’s (INESC TEC) Board of Directors. His research focuses on the integration of distributed electrical resources (renewable electricity generation, electric vehicles, storage, etc.) in distribution and transmission networks, dynamic analysis of electrical systems and smart grids.

He has a PhD in forestry sciences (University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, UTAD, 2003) and 30 years of professional experience. His scientific work has focused primarily on the behaviour and ecology of forest fires, working from an applied perspective to forest management. This contribution has resulted from his participation in 14 international R&D projects, including coordination tasks, namely the FP6 Fire Paradox project and 28 national projects. He is (co)author of over 115 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 29 international book chapters. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Wildland Fire and Annals of Forest Science and has served on the Board of the International Association of Wildland Fire.