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Full professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine and obstetrician and gynaecologist at Santa Maria Hospital. He was the first elected president of the National Council for Ethics in Life Sciences (2009-2015), he is coordinator of three projects on sexual and reproductive health in the European Union (2003-2010) and was elected vice-president of the Bioethics department of the Council of Europe (2018-2019). He has published very widely on bioethics issues.

He was born in Lisbon in 1975. He won the José Saramago Literary Prize in 2009 with «The Three Lives» and was a finalist in the Portugal Telecom Prize in 2011 with the same book. He has published twelve novels. He was a finalist in the Best Narrative Fiction Prize from the Portuguese Society of Authors (2011 and 2015), the Fernando Namora Literary Prize (2011, 2012, 2015, 2016), and the European Literary Prize in 2012. His books are published in several countries.

She has been a doctor since 1985. She has devoted herself to palliative care (CP) for over 25 years. She was president of the Portuguese Palliative Care Association. She is director of the CP Unit at Hospital da Luz-Lisboa, a professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine and the Catholic University. She chairs the Palliative Medicine area at the Portuguese Medical Association. She believes that it has been a privilege to work in this area and has already cared for more than 6,000 patients and their families. She was a member of the Portuguese parliament for 10 years.. She has been a Commander of the Order of Merit since 2004.

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and believes that the Público was her school of journalism. She spent 14 years in the international politics section exploring, Asia in particular. What does a school for migrant children in Beijing have in common with a middle-class family in Tokyo? A writer in Goa looking for their identity in the largest slum in Mumbai? The lowering the Portuguese flag in Macao and a trip through Thai cuisine? Nothing and a lot. For Francisca Gorjão Henriques, all the reports were lessons on how each place is multiple. She believes that these years helped her in the steps that followed. She left the Público newspaper after 20 years to devote herself to the Loaf by Loaf Association, which promotes the integration of refugees from the Middle East. But she did not leave journalism, continuing to work as a freelancer, reporting and doing fixer work.

He is a doctor, specialising in Clinical Haematology and Medical Oncology, and Senior Graduate Assistant in Haematology at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology in Lisbon. He is a visiting associate professor at the National School of Public Health. He was Minister of Health in the short-lived 20th Constitutional Government and Deputy Secretary of State of the Minister of Health in the 19th Constitutional Government. He was Deputy Director-General of Health and consultant on health policy issues at the Civil House of the President of Portugal.

Bruno Cardoso Reis holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College and a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities. He was deputy director of the Centre for International Studies at Iscte-IUL, where he teaches and directs the PhD in History and Security and Defence Studies, in partnership with the Military Academy. He was deputy to the Minister of National Defence (2019-2022). He was a guest professor at the Institute of Political Studies at UCP and, in the 2024-25 academic year, he was a FLAD guest professor at Georgetown University in Washington, where he's currently a non-resident researcher. He has published several articles and books, including the essay "Can Portugal have a Strategy?" (2019) published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: september 2025

Leads the Foundation's Digital & Social Content Management team.
She coordinated the Digital Area and the Fronteiras XXI project, with a monthly debate program in a partnership with RTP, the national Portuguese television.
Joana Ferreira da Costa was a journalist between 1997 and 2016. She worked for 11 years at the daily newspaper «Público» writing about Science, Health Policies and Politics, having been a resident's reporter at Parliament. She then worked as a sub-editor at «Diário de Notícias» and at weekly newspaper «Sol».
She has a degree in Social and Cultural Communication from the Portuguese Catholic University.

Last update: march 2023

She is a writer, teacher, literary critic and communicator. She has worked in the dissemination of Books and Literature in the press and on television for 30 years, at dissemination events and writing workshops and tutoring.
Currently, she is editor of «Ler» magazine, she writes literary criticism in the «Sol» newspaper, coordinates and teaches a post-graduate degree in fiction writing at Universidade Lusófona, she is responsible for the communication of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos essays and portraits, part of the communication office of ULS Médio Tejo, coordinates the Dom Luis I Foundation programme of International Writing Residences and is on the Cultural Council of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation.
She is the author of the novel «This Is My Body», translated into seven languages, of the reportage book «The Last Sailors» (FFMS) and of a «Sentimental Dictionary of Adultery».

Last updated: May 2024

He has been a journalist since 1988 in the fields of the environment, science and data journalism. He is the author of the books "Sobre a Terra", an environmental guide, and "Nós no Mundo", about sustainability.

Last updated: January 2017

She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP -UL), where she teaches a number subjects in the areas of Political Science and Comparative Politics. Her main nationally published works include 'The Portuguese Political System. A Comparative Perspective' (2017) and 'Semi-sovereign People: Political Parties and Parliamentary Recruitment' (2008).