Leads the Foundation's Digital & Social Content Management team.
She coordinated the Digital Area and the Fronteiras XXI project, with a monthly debate program in a partnership with RTP, the national Portuguese television.
Joana Ferreira da Costa was a journalist between 1997 and 2016. She worked for 11 years at the daily newspaper «Público» writing about Science, Health Policies and Politics, having been a resident's reporter at Parliament. She then worked as a sub-editor at «Diário de Notícias» and at weekly newspaper «Sol».
She has a degree in Social and Cultural Communication from the Portuguese Catholic University.
She is a writer, teacher, literary critic and communicator. She has worked in the dissemination of Books and Literature in the press and on television for 30 years, at dissemination events and writing workshops and tutoring.
Currently, she is editor of «Ler» magazine, she writes literary criticism in the «Sol» newspaper, coordinates and teaches a post-graduate degree in fiction writing at Universidade Lusófona, she is responsible for the communication of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos essays and portraits, part of the communication office of ULS Médio Tejo, coordinates the Dom Luis I Foundation programme of International Writing Residences and is on the Cultural Council of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation.
She is the author of the novel «This Is My Body», translated into seven languages, of the reportage book «The Last Sailors» (FFMS) and of a «Sentimental Dictionary of Adultery».
He has been a journalist since 1988 in the fields of the environment, science and data journalism. He is the author of the books "Sobre a Terra", an environmental guide, and "Nós no Mundo", about sustainability.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gonçalo Saraiva Matias is Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of the Foundation. He is 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.
