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Justice

O passado pela frente
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António Vitorino
He is a professor at Sciences Po in Paris and president of the National Council for Migration and Asylum.
He was director-general of the International Organization for Migration — a UN agency — between 2017 and 2023.
He dedicated himself to the issue of migration over the course of 30 years, in government, in the national and European parliaments, and at the European Commission. He was commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs from 1999 to 2004.
He was minister of the Presidency and of National Defence from 1995 to 1997.
He holds a master's degree in Political and Legal Sciences and a degree in Law.

Last update: september 2026
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João Pedro Henriques
He reports on national politics for the Diário de Notícias newspaper.
He graduated from the Centre for Vocational Training for Journalists and also worked at the LUSA Agency and the Público newspaper.
In 2020, he launched the work «Ana Gomes – Life and the World», which is the result of a long interview with the former MEP and ambassador. He is the author of «Unfinished Revolution, what didn't change on 25 April», one of the books that is part of the FFMS collection of Portraits.

Last updated: January 2024
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Francisco Lopes
He has been a journalist and infographic designer for the “Público” newspaper since 2016. He has been recognised with more than three dozen national and international awards and mentions in infographics.
With a degree in Graphic Design, he has taken part in several world congresses on infographics at the Malofiej workshop in the University of Navarra - Pamplona, Spain.
He studied programming languages at Formabase.
His work focuses on producing infographics for paper and online and creating new digital visual narratives.
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José Alves
Journalist, infographic designer and illustrator for the "Público" newspaper since 2006. He previously worked for the Impala and Cofina Media groups.
He has won more than dozens of national and international awards and mentions in infographics, online infographics, animated infographics and illustration.
He took part in the Malofiej workshop at the University of Navarra - Pamplona, Spain, in 2009, and has been to several world congresses. In Portugal, he completed a workshop in storytelling through infographics at the Instituto Superior de Gestão.
With a background in design, he decided to invest in web design training at LX School (Flag) and, more recently, in programming language at Formabase.
His work focuses on producing infographics for paper and online and creating new digital visual narratives with a large illustrative component.

Last updated: November 2023
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Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Professor of Political Science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (CERI Sciences Po) in Paris.
A senior researcher in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, he is also co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance.
Soares de Oliveira has conducted extensive fieldwork on the international political economy of African states, focusing on extractive industries, the financial sector, conflict and post-conflict reconstruction and Afro-Asian relations. He is the author of several books.

Last updated: November 2025
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Donatella della Porta
A political scientist and sociologist, she is Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and Director of the Doctoral Program in Political Science and Sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, where she also directs the Centre for Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). Her main research topics include corruption, social movements, political violence and terrorism. She directed the important «ERC Mobilizing for Democracy» project, focusing on the participation of civil society in democratisation processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. She has been awarded several prizes, including the Mattei Dogan Prize (2011) for outstanding achievements in the field of political sociology and the Humboldt Prize (2021).

Last updated: August 2022
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Susana Coroado
Political scientist and researcher at Dublin City University, Ireland, with work on topics such as corruption, public integrity, lobbying regulation and institutional reforms. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon , was president of Transparency International Portugal (2020–2022) and collaborates with international networks and NGOs in the area of good governance.

Last updated: december 2025
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Rui Medeiros
Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University, where he completed his habilitation exams, doctorate and master's degree. He was Director of the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University. He is Director of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law and a member of the European Public Law Group. He was Minister for Administrative Modernisation in the 20th Constitutional Government.

Last updated: December 2019