Environment

Technical and maintenance manager.
He appears in the documentary «The Clean Energy Revolution».

Coordinator of the Center for Power and Energy Systems at INESC TEC. His research focus on artificial intelligence and data-driven methods for power system operation, renewable energy integration and smart grids.
He received the Energy Systems Integration Group Excellence Award in 2022.
He is the co-author of more than 80 journal papers and over 140 conference publications.

Last update: november 2024

Coordinator of the National Laboratory of Energy and Geology's (LNEG) Resource Economics unit. Researcher on energy systems with experience in both the research and the private sector, both in Portugal and abroad. Her work focuses on low carbon energy systems, namely on energy technological transitions, new policy approaches, as well as on the vulnerability and adaptation of energy systems to climate change.
She has a PhD from Leiden University (NL) where she studied interactions between energy and environment policies. She has a MSc. in Environmental Management and Policy from Lund University (SE). Her BSc Degree is in Environmental Engineering from NOVA University.

Last update: november 2024

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

Expert on German, European, and trans-Atlantic foreign and security policy and strategy. She is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and the inaugural holder of the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations at Brookings. She held the Kissinger Chair on Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress from October 2019 to March 2020, and served as the inaugural Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at Brookings from 2014 to 2019.
Her areas of expertise include: trans-Atlantic relations; German foreign policy; NATO; the European Union’s foreign, security, and defense policy; international law; and human rights.
Stelzenmüller’s essays and articles, in both German and English, have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Internationale Politik, the Washington Post and Süddeutsche Zeitung. She writes a monthly column in the Financial Times.
She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn (1992), a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1988), and a law degree from the University of Bonn (1985).

Last update: july 2024

Director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative and a fellow in Foreign Policy. Her work is focused on the intersection of energy, environment, and policy, including climate policy and international cooperation, the transition to net-zero emissions energy system, energy geopolitics, and global energy markets. Se has more than 25 years of experience in energy and environmental affairs.
In 2021, Samantha Gross was a Brookings Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Fellow in Berlin. She has been a visiting fellow at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center, where she authored work on clean energy cooperation and on post-Paris climate policy. She was director of the Office of International Climate and Clean Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois, a Master of Science in environmental engineering from Stanford, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Last update: july 2024

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

She holds a PhD in Public Law and specialises in public law and regulation. She is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority (ERSAR).
She is also assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of NOVA University Lisbon, where she teaches administrative law, administrative procedure, regulation, public procurement law and arbitration in urban planning and public law.
Previously, she served as a lawyer at Linklaters LLP, heading the Public and Regulatory Law department. Her practice focused on public and regulatory law matters involving administrative litigation. Additionally, she has also worked on project implementation, execution and financing, as well as on acquisitions involving companies operating in regulated or environmentally significant sectors.

Last updated: june 2026

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