Health

Former governor of the Bank of Portugal. He was managing director of Milleninum BCP (2000-2004), director of Caixa Geral de Depósitos (2004-2006) and vice-president of the EIB (2006-2010).

Pulmonologist and intensivist. He is Coordinator of the Order of Physicians' crisis office for Covid-19.

Last updated: May 2020

Journalist for the Público.

Last updated: September 2020

Professor at the National School of Public Health, UNL, coordinator of the Health Systems and Policy Monitor of the WHO European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. She has a Bachelor's degree in Nursing from the Francisco Gentil School of Nursing, a Master's degree in Public Health from the National School of Public Health and a PhD in International Health from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is a consultant at the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health.

Last updated: July 2023

Associate professor with aggregation at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity. Her teaching activities are in the context of the evaluation of physical activity and physical fitness in general and the prescription of exercise for elderly people in particular.
Her research is now focused on the study of the musculoskeletal health phenotype – how physical activity/exercise and physical fitness determine: the peak of muscle mass and bone mass during the growth process, sarcopenia, osteopenia, fragility and falls during the ageing process and clinical conditions/treatments with side effects on musculoskeletal health.

Last updated: May 2024

Reporter for the Público newspaper since its foundation. He was a correspondent in New York and editor of Pública magazine. For more than 20 years he has been reporting all over the world, in crisis zones, or wherever there is news or a good story. He has covered conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Algeria, Angola, Kashmir, Sudan, Libya and many others, and has won several awards (Gazeta, AMI, ACIDI, Portuguese Press Club, FLAD, Lettre Ulysses, Lorenzo Natali, etc.). He is a professor of journalism at the School of Communication and Media Studies in Lisbon and he wrote the biography of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and four other books. He currently has a blog on reports and gallivanting entitled «Reporter on the Loose».

Last updated: September 2020

She has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in Development and Social Change, from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Lisbon.
She is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at NOVA FCSH, where she coordinates the Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems. She is an integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences and has done research work on the subjects of ageing and the related social policies, family and intergenerational relations, as well as health.

Last updated: July 2024