Environment

Chairman of Águas de Portugal.
He previously served as Minister for Public Works, Transport and Housing and as Mayor of Lisbon.
He was also Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at NOVA University Lisbon and holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the same institution.

Last update: june 2026

A professional photographer since 1986, he works in the industrial, engineering/architecture and editorial areas. In 1994, he co-founded Volta ao Mundo magazine and was its director of photography until 2004, reporting from more than 50 countries. He held the same position in Evasões magazine between 1999 and 2002. He is responsible for several albums and exhibitions, his work is published in a number of national and international media outlets and present in various collections.

Last updated: June 2020

She has been a journalist since 1998, the year she completed her course in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Minho, before joining the editorial office at the «Publico» newspaper. She started working in the local section, where she wrote about planning and urbanism, then moved to the economy section, where she worked on topics such as public investment and housing policies.
She left the newspaper in 2011 to realise her personal project of a trip around the world as a family – reported weekly on the pages of «Fugas» magazine. She never stopped writing in the «Público», while also working with several national publications (such as «Evasões» and «TimeOut»). She was co-author of the Hotelandia project, where good examples of Portuguese hotels are published, and she returned to writing in the «Público» full-time in 2015. In 2021, she left the newspaper again to devote herself to the journalistic project «Faces of the Village», a platform where the stories of all those who contribute to depopulation not becoming an inexorable trend are published, reporting the inspiring cases of – young and old – people who struggle to reverse it.

Former CEO and member of the Executive Committee and of the Board of Directors of the Foundation, David Lopes holds a college degree in Business Management. He was until September 2014 the President of the international area of Daymon Worldwide (a leading global company in consumers’ brand development) where he was also responsible for managing international joint ventures, business operations development and expansion in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He previously was General Manager at Daymon Portugal for three years, where he led the team that established the hub which became the basis of this North American international business in Europe. He transitioned from this role to serve as CEO of the leading Portugese wholesaler «Recheio Cash & Carry» before rejoining Daymon. His professional career also includes leadership positions in the polish company Biedronka and as member of the Board of Directors of the companies «Parque Expo», «Oceanário de Lisboa» and «Fundação do Gil». He is a founding member of the Portuguese Diaspora Council.

Last updated: april 2020

Graduated in Marine Biology from Lisbon Classic University, in 1986, with executive education at IMD (1995) and Harvard (1997), and Alumni Member of Stanford (2000). Executive President of Sociedade Francisco Manuel dos Santos B.V., the main shareholder of Jerónimo Martins, SGPS, S.A., since its establishment in 2012. Member of the Board of Directors of Jerónimo Martins SGPS, S.A. from 1995 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2015. Chairman of Unilever Fima, Lda., Gallo Worldwide, Lda., JMDB Representação e Distribuição de Marcas Lda. and Movendo Capital B.V. Since 2020, he is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, of which he was member of the Board of Directors from 2009 to 2018 and member of the Board of Trustees from 2018 to 2020. Since 2015, he is the Chairman of Oceanário de Lisboa, S.A., and, since 2016, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of the Oceano Azul Foundation. Since 2024, he is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alfredo de Sousa Foundation and member of the Board of Trustees of GIMM – Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine.

Last updated: october 2025

Born in 1959, he has a Bachelor's degree and a postgraduate degree in Philosophy. He has worked as a film and television programmer. He started out as a film programmer at Cinemateca Portuguesa, he was director of international programmes at SIC and worked at Zon Lusomundo as director-general of film channels (TVCines, Hollywood, MOV). In parallel, he was responsible for jazz programmes on the radio, namely Antena 2. He has worked with newspapers and takes part in blogs.

Last updated: October 2014

He is an emeritus professor at the University of Lisbon School of Sciences. He has devoted himself to teaching and research in theoretical nuclear physics, astrophysics and, since 1987, in environmental sciences, global changes and sustainability, and is currently President of the National Council for Environment and Sustainable Development. His latest book is «Time, Progress, Growth and Technology».

Last updated: May 2021

Born in Santarém in 1948, he graduated from the Higher Institute of Agronomy (where he has been a full professor since 1985) and he got his PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). He teaches Ecology and Plant Biology on courses in the 1st, 2nd (Master's degree) and 3rd (PhD) cycles. His scientific research interests focus on the ecology of forests, particularly the effect of climate change on the carbon cycle. He was co-author (or co-editor) of six books by multiple essayists and more than 100 articles in international journals. He is a member of the National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development (CNADS) and Academia Europaea in London.

Last updated: January 2014

Sofia Guedes Vaz is a professor, researcher and consultant in the area of Sustainability and Ethics.
From 2022 to 2024, she was head of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Environmental Engineering at Nova University in Cairo (Egypt). She has worked at public and private bodies, both national and international, in the field of the environment.
Sofia began her studies in Engineering, before moving on to Environmental Philosophy, which gives her an interdisciplinary insight into the analysis of sustainability issues.
She has published and edited books, scientific articles and book chapters, while also working in science communication and publishing works in the area of scientific dissemination, particularly the book «O Ambiente em Portugal», published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: August 2025