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Born in 1947, he graduated in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon and led several Ministries in different governments (Internal Affairs, National Defense and Foreign Affairs). He was Member of Parliament from 1975 to 2011, were he held office as Speaker, consequently becoming a member of the Council of State. Presently, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Lisbon University and of the Strategy Board of the Political Studies Institute of the Lisbon Catholic University. Member of the Supervisory Board of the Military University Institute and of the High Council of the Navy’s Centre for Strategic Studies. He also belongs to the Aspen Ministers Forum. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novo Banco Azores and Chairman of the Supervisory Board for the electronic newspaper Observador. He is Senior Strategic Counsel at Albright Stonebridge Group. He was awarded several Portuguese and foreign decorations. He received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Azores and is Chancellor of the Ancient Portuguese Military Orders.

Last updated: september 2022

Inês Lopes Gonçalves is a radio and television host. On the radio she is currently one of Rádio Renascença's «As Três da Manhã», and on television she hosts the talk show «Traz Pr'á Frente» on RTP and RTP Memória.
She has been one of the faces of the Festival da Canção since 2017. She began her career in information as a journalist at Rádio Renascença, worked for Sport Tv, Canal Q and collaborated with Time Out, Sábado and Expresso magazines.

Última atualização: janeiro de 2022

Director of publications and member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, António Araújo was born in Lisbon in 1966. He obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in law at the University of Lisbon and holds a PhD in contemporary history from the Catholic University of Portugal. He was a teacher at the Faculty of Law and teaches now at NOVA FCSH. He is adviser to the Constitutional Court, in unpaid leave, and was consultant to the President of the Republic for political affairs. He is the author of several books and articles in political science, constitutional law and contemporary history. He represents FFMS on the Board of the Portuguese Foundation Center.

She has a Bachelor's degree in Nursing and Communication Sciences. She joined RTP in 2004. She presented and made reports on several programmes and special broadcasts on Antena1 and Antena2. She coordinated the solidarity project «It Touches Everybody». She has presented «Around the Books» since 2010, broadcast from Monday to Friday on Antena 1. In 2013, she won the Pro-Author Award, presented by SPA. She has been working in coordination at RTP3 since September 2015.

Last updated: February 2020

He is a professor at the University of Coimbra School of Economics and a researcher at CEIS20. He was director of the Ílhavo Maritime Museum between 2003 and 2009. His research focuses on the economic history and the institutions of the 20th century. In this context, he has published several books and articles on the subjects of corporatism, the history of fisheries and the maritime economy. He recently began a research project on the history of public policies for the economy of the sea.

Last updated: November 2021

He was born in Lisbon in 1962. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (1985) from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Universidade Técnica de Lisboa – where he won the award for best student of the year in his field – and in Strategic Management in the Context of Innovation (1988) from University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE). He obtained a Master's degree in Heat Transfer and Conversion (1998), and a PhD (1993) and Aggregation (2004) in Mechanical Engineering from IST. President of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and National Director of the MIT-Portugal programme – the largest international partnership in Science and Technology in Portugal in the field of Engineering Systems – and also the main focus area for Sustainable Energy Systems. He is a Full Professor at IST, co-founder of the Centre for Studies in Innovation, Technology and Development Policies (IN+), and was the coordinator of the Sustainable Technologies and Environmental Systems area in the Laboratory of Robotics and Systems in Engineering and Science (LARSyS) at the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR). He has written more than 70 articles published in journals, book chapters and more than 80 papers presented at conferences and lectures in different fields. He has co-organised more than a dozen international conferences and led more than 30 scientific projects in the areas of Energy Efficiency and Industrial Ecology.

Last updated: October 2021

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

Gonçalo Saraiva Matias is the Minister Adjunct and for State Reform of the XXV Constitutional Government. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of the Foundation between september 2022 and june 2025.
He was a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal, where he also obtained his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees.
He was director of the Catholic Global School of Law and visiting professor at Washington University. He conducted research at the Georgetown University Law School as a Fulbright visiting scholar. Most of his work falls within Regulatory, Administrative, Constitutional and International Law. He was the director of the Migration Observatory, Secretary of State for the Administrative Modernisation of the XX Constitutional Government. He has been advisor for legal affairs to the President of the Portuguese Republic since 2008. In 2016, he was awarded the title of Grand Officer of the Order of Infante D. Henrique. He was born in Lisbon, in 1979.

Last uptade: june 2025

Principal Investigator at the research unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policy (GOVCOPP) at the University of Aveiro, where he coordinates the Public Policy, Institutions and Innovation (PI2) research group.
Before joining GOVCOPP in 2024, he was an assistant professorial research fellow for 10 years at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
He is also a Senior Associate in LSE Cities, an international centre that investigates the complexities of the contemporary city. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary area of urban governance. He has wide experience in the coordination of international projects on network and multilevel governance, planning, infrastructure, democratic and economic performance and sustainable urban development. These projects were funded by a number of public and private entities, including the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, Bloomberg Philanthropies and Fondation Botnar.
He works regularly with multilateral organisations such as United Cities and Local Governments, Eurocities, Metropolis, UN-Habitat and Transparency International and he was a consultant for institutions like the World Bank and the European Committee of the Regions.
He gives lectures and organises international training courses in areas related to his research and consultancy work. He is a field editor for the Journal of Public Policy.

Last updated: August 2025

Sociologist and Coordinating Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, she coordinates OBSERVA – Observatory of Environment, Territory and Society. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Programme in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies. Additionally, she is a member of the National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development (CNADS). the European Environment Advisory Council (EEAC) and the Portuguese Council for Health and the Environment (CPSA). She is a regular columnist for the newspapers Expresso and the «Água & Ambiente».

Last updated: November 2024