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).
Founder and CEO of the communications company Empower Sports and presenter on the Eleven Sports channel. He began his career at RTP, later working for CNN (in the US and later as a correspondent in London), Sport TV and UEFA. He has also worked with FIFA and the Portuguese Football Federation.
She was born in Angola on 10 June 1957. She got her PhD in Law (Constitutional Law) at the University of Lisbon School of Law. She is an ombudswoman and professor at the Nova School of Law in Lisbon, with aggregation in legal and political sciences.
She has devoted her teaching and research career to the areas of constitutional law. She also teaches subjects such as comparative public law, fundamental rights and constitutional justice.
She was a judge in the Constitutional Court between April 2007 and July 2016, an institution of which she was vice-president between October 2012 and July 2016.
A member of several international scientific associations (including the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law and the International Association of Constitutional Law), she has written a number of various works on her area of expertise since 1984.
He is 46 years old, has a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from Universidade Lusófona and has been a journalist since 1999. He worked in the newsrooms at the Euronotícias, Independente, Expresso and Sol newspapers. He was editorial director and deputy director of the i newspaper between March 2012 and May 2015. He has been the chief editor at the Observador since September 2015 and regularly comments on Justice issues on SIC, TVI and RTP. He received the Economic Journalism Prize from the University Nova/Santander in 2017.
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.
He is a journalist. He directed the «Meios & Publicidade» newspaper and the news office at the Impala group. He was coordinator at the «24 horas» and «Sol» newspapers. He worked at the Lusa press agency, the «Expresso» newspaper and «Sábado», «Superjovem», «Pais & Filhos» magazines, among others. He has published several books.
Lawyer. He has been a columnist and lawyer for the «Público» newspaper since its foundation and was the jurist responsible for the first conviction of the Portuguese State for violation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects freedom of expression. Since then, he has been defending journalists convicted by the Portuguese courts at the European Court of Human Rights. He was part of the Council of Europe's expert group on the Rights of Internet Users. He has a Bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Lisbon and a postgraduate degree from the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Coimbra School of Law.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2022-2027).
Founder of NEWES, New Energy Solutions. Visiting professor at the MIT-Portugal programme. Former president of the Regulatory Authority for the Energy Sector (ERSE). And electrotechnical engineer, he got his Bachelor's degree from the University of Porto and his PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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.
