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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).

He is an economist and member of the Strategic Council of the Academic Clinical Centre of Coimbra and of the Advisory Council at the University of Beira Interior School of Social and Human Sciences. He was a director at the Portuguese Red Cross Hospital, the Portuguese Health Group, the Doutor Ricardo Jorge National Health Institute and the Healthcare area at Accenture Portugal. He was a member of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos Scientific Council. He has written books and articles in the area of health.

Last updated: November 2023

Sociologist at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. She has devoted herself to the research, teaching and communication of social food practices through research on food poverty, sustainable food consumption and eating habits of families with children. Several of her works alluding to these topics have been published by Portuguese and international publishers.

Last updated: January 2020

Born in 1947, he graduated in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon and led several Ministries in different governments (Internal Affairs, National Defense and Foreign Affairs). He was Member of Parliament from 1975 to 2011, were he held office as Speaker, consequently becoming a member of the Council of State. Presently, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Lisbon University and of the Strategy Board of the Political Studies Institute of the Lisbon Catholic University. Member of the Supervisory Board of the Military University Institute and of the High Council of the Navy’s Centre for Strategic Studies. He also belongs to the Aspen Ministers Forum. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novo Banco Azores and Chairman of the Supervisory Board for the electronic newspaper Observador. He is Senior Strategic Counsel at Albright Stonebridge Group. He was awarded several Portuguese and foreign decorations. He received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Azores and is Chancellor of the Ancient Portuguese Military Orders.

Last updated: september 2022

Director of Pordata and member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. She holds a PhD in Statistics and Computing and graduated in Mathematics, Luísa Loura is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She was director of the Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics. As a researcher, she published works in the areas of extreme theory, stochastic processes, biostatistics and the teaching of statistics.

Director of publications and member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, António Araújo was born in Lisbon in 1966. He obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in law at the University of Lisbon and holds a PhD in contemporary history from the Catholic University of Portugal. He was a teacher at the Faculty of Law and teaches now at NOVA FCSH. He is adviser to the Constitutional Court, in unpaid leave, and was consultant to the President of the Republic for political affairs. He is the author of several books and articles in political science, constitutional law and contemporary history. He represents FFMS on the Board of the Portuguese Foundation Center.

An award-winning British historian, writer and economics specialist, Adam Tooze combines historical and economic knowledge to answer questions about political power and the changes challenging the world.
He is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, USA, where he also directs the European Institute. Previously, he taught at Cambridge and Yale universities.
He is the author of several books, most recently «Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy», in which he analyses the flaws in the response to the pandemic, the consequences and how we should learn from this experience.
He has advised governments and ministries on economic issues.

Last updated: April 2022

João Tiago Gaspar started working at Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in 2016, having held different positions in the Scientific Department until becoming head of Research and Science Communication (in 2022). As of 2024, he became responsible for the Foundation's Content and International Affairs, maintaining the position of director of the Foundation's Summaries collection (created in 2018). He was a teaching assistant of History of International Relations at NOVA FCSH, in the 2020/2021 academic year, having accumulated this position with his functions at FFMS. Between 2015 and 2016, before joining the Foundation, he was a research assistant at the ICS of the University of Lisbon, as part of the 2015 Portuguese Electoral Study. He graduated in Political Science and obtained a master’s degree in Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies at the Portuguese Catholic University, where he is working on his PhD in Political Science and International Relations. He was also an exchange student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a visiting student at Lincoln College, University of Oxford.

Last updated: May 2024

Gonçalo Saraiva Matias is the Minister Adjunct and for State Reform of the XXV Constitutional Government. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of the Foundation between september 2022 and june 2025.
He was a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal, where he also obtained his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees.
He was director of the Catholic Global School of Law and visiting professor at Washington University. He conducted research at the Georgetown University Law School as a Fulbright visiting scholar. Most of his work falls within Regulatory, Administrative, Constitutional and International Law. He was the director of the Migration Observatory, Secretary of State for the Administrative Modernisation of the XX Constitutional Government. He has been advisor for legal affairs to the President of the Portuguese Republic since 2008. In 2016, he was awarded the title of Grand Officer of the Order of Infante D. Henrique. He was born in Lisbon, in 1979.

Last uptade: june 2025

For more than 30 years, he has been giving consultations to children, adolescents and parents, closely following the changes in Portuguese families. He directed the Paediatrics Service at the Lisbon North Hospital Centre between 1972 and 1980 and helped to set up the first Child Development Unit in the country, at Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon.
He was a professor of Paediatrics and Public Health at the Nova School of Medical Sciences in Lisbon, and a guest lecturer in the United Kingdom and Spain. He chaired the Social and Community Paediatrics section of the Portuguese Society of Paediatrics and the European Society for Social Paediatrics.
He founded and chaired the Association for the Promotion of Child Safety (APSI). He was a member of the National Committees on Women's and Children's Health, Children's Rights and Good Practices in Homes and ran the National Health Observatory.
In addition to being a member of the Academy of Arts and Literature, he has written dozens of books, such as «Children and Families in a Changing Portugal» and «Hurried Parents, Stressed Children», and bestsellers like «The Great Book on Babies».