Environment

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 with a Master's degree in Management.
She is the founder of Do Zero, an online business that later expanded into a physical shop, providing products and solutions for environmentally conscious consumers interested in reuse and recycling.
She was a member of The Future Has Already Begun, a think tank that meets with the President of the Republic.

Last updated: june 2026

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.

Professor and researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico and at Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability. At the same time, he has had a consultancy firm for more than 30 years, in the area of hydrology and water resources.
He devotes particular interest to the challenges of water management in a context of increasing scarcity and uncertainty, as a result of economic transformation and climate change.
He has a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University (USA) and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico.

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Studies and a Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems, she worked as a producer of content for radio and television, directed documentaries and wrote fiction scripts. She is a founding member and vice-president of the Circular Economy Portugal association – CEP.

Former chairman of Endesa and of several companies within the Endesa group in Portugal.
He holds a master’s degree in Economics, Politics and Energy Management from the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, having previously studied Engineering and Economics.

Last update: january 2024