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O passado pela frente
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Bernardo Pinto da Cruz
He holds a PhD in Global Studies from the Nova University Lisbon School of Social Sciences and works as a researcher at IPRI-Nova. His recent research on the concentration of penal colonies, rural development and colonial institutional change has been published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Studies, the Portuguese Studies Review and Comparativ. He was also a member of the CEI-ISCTE research team responsible for collecting data and analysing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the external dimension of Portuguese sovereignty (project funded by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos).

Last updated: November 2023
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Catarina Gonçalves
Graduated in Communication and Journalism, with a postgraduate degree in Political Advising and Media. On her way to a master's degree in Political Science at ISCTE.
She assumed the role of digital content manager at the Foundation in October 2023.

Last updated: october 2023
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Pedro Seabra
Researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon Centre for International Studies (CEI-Iscte) and Visiting Assistant Professor at Iscte-IUL. He has a PhD in Political Science, specialising in International Relations, from the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (ICS, ULisboa) and a Master's degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH-UNL).

Last updated: March 2023
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António Martins
António Martins holds a Master's degree in Finance from the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), is a PhD student in Economics at ISEG and is an Assistant Professor at Nova SBE.
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Miguel Portela
He got his PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute in 2007. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Minho (U Minho) and Director of the PhD programme in Economics at the same institution. He is also a researcher at NIPE (UMinho), CIPES (UAveiro and UPorto) and the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA), Germany, and assists the Bank of Portugal on a permanent basis. His research focuses mainly on Labour and Education Economics and Applied Econometrics. He has written several academic papers, books and book chapters, and has been published in prestigious journals such as Econometrica, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Regional Studies and Studies in Higher Education. His work has been cited, among others, in prestigious specialist journals such as Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Industrial and Labour Relations Review and Labour Economics. He maintains research collaborations in several countries, leading and integrating research teams that develop funded projects. He has authored policy-oriented reports on minimum wages, education and employment applicable to the Portuguese labour market. He also has extensive experience in consultancy for both private and public institutions.
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João Taborda da Gama
Lawyer and university lecturer in tax law and controlled substances law.
He is a Founding Partner of Gama Glória LLP, Lisbon, Senior Consultant at Albright Stonebridge Group/Denton Global Advisors (Washington DC) and lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal.
Additionally, he advises international companies, governments and patient groups on the regulation, use, production and trade of controlled substances for medical, religious, spiritual and recreational purposes.
He also offers consultancy to NGOs advocating harm reduction and responsible adult use of cannabis, psychedelics and entheogenic plants.
A regular speaker on narcotics law and drug policy worldwide, he has published «The Regulation of Medical Cannabis in Portugal» (Brazil, 2019), «Regulate and Protect: Towards A New Drug Policy» (Lisbon, 2022) and «Psychedelic Law» (2023).

Last updated: July  2024
Author
Uma Naidoo
Harvard Nutritional Psychiatrist, professional chef and nutritional biologist.
She is the founder and director of the first and only hospital-based nutritional and metabolic psychiatry service in the US, based at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
She is a faculty member of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Department of Nutrition and also an instructor at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.
She is the author of the bestseller «This Is Your Brain on Food», published in 22 countries and 18 languages. She is a regular contributor to various publications, including CNBC, Harvard Health, mindbodygreen and Psychology Today.

Last updated: July 2024