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).
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.
Geographer, PhD in human geography and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), where he works on the integrated master's and PhD courses.
He is also a researcher at FAUP's Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU). He has published extensively, including «Transgenic Landscapes» (Landscape Museum 2021), «Tour of Portugal» (Contraponto, Lisbon, 2017), «Common Home Territory» (with N. Travasso, FAUP, Porto, 2015), «The Street of the Road» (Dafne, Porto, 2010), «Country Life» (Dafne, Porto, 2012) and «Urban Policies I and II» (with N. Portas and J. Cabral, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2003 and 2011) and «City and Democracy» (Argumentum, Lisbon, 2006). He writes regularly for the newspaper «Público».
He has a PhD in Human Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.
His background is in architecture. His photographic survey of Portugal gave rise to a photographic archive of more than 1,880,000 images. The highlights of his published work include: «Portugal – The Flavour of the Land» (1997–98), «Portugal Heritage» (2007–08), «Portugal Light and Shadow» (2012) and the trilogy made up of «Meandering Along”, «After the Road» and «Longer Journey» (2020). He has worked with important names in Portuguese culture, such as Mário de Cesariny, Ruy Belo, Maria Gabriela Llansol and Miguel Torga. He is editor of the Infinite City blog. He has been holding exhibitions since 1987 and regularly participates in pedagogical activities, conferences and round tables.
Principal investigator at the Dom Luis Institute at the University of Lisbon and a visiting professor at the Department of Geographic Engineering, Geophysics and Energy, both at the University of Lisbon School of Sciences.
He is the coordinator of the Portuguese team in CORDEX (Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment) and takes part in several other international research projects on climate change. He is also scientific coordinator of the EEA Grants project «National Roadmap for Adaptation 2100 –Portuguese Territorial Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for the 21st century» (RNA 2100).
He has a Bachelor's degree in History and a Master’s degree in Political Science. He is a columnist at the «Expresso». He has worked at the «Público», «Diário de Notícias» and «Independente» newspapers and was editor of «Atlantico» magazine. He has written several books.
His parents are from Trás-os-Montes, but he was born and spent his early life in Vila Nova de Gaia. He studied in Porto, Viana do Castelo and Vila Real. He did his military service in Lisbon, where he simultaneously studied Romance Languages and Law. Forced to leave Portugal for political reasons, he lived in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, New York and Paris. He got his Bachelor’s degree in Amsterdam, where he taught and now lives. His books are currently published by Quetzal.
Journalist for the «Público» in Porto. She has worked at the «24 Horas», «O Comércio do Porto» and the «Jornal de Letras» newspapers. She has also been published in «Grande Reportagem», «Visão» and «Sábado» magazines. She has a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from Nova University Lisbon.
