A forestry engineer with a postgraduate degree in Forest Resources (UTAD), he was born in Vila Real in 1960. He began his professional career at Vila Flor Municipal Council, followed by DRATM and DGRF. In 1988, he moved to the private sector at Silvigest – Gestão Florestal, SA, coordinating the Trás-os-Montes and Norte Litoral areas and, in 1991, he took over the technical office at A. Mota & Filhos. Mota & Filhos. Lda. Shortly afterwards, he joined the first governing bodies of AFNCP (now FORESTIS). In 1993, he set up Bosque, Lda, working in the Beiras and Alentejo regions. In the same year, he became a consultant for the TMAD Baldios Secretariat and, in 2002, for BALADI, the National Baldios Federation.
Economist in the Bank of Portugal’s Economics and Research Department, where he has worked since 2001. He graduated and obtained his PhD in Economics from Nova University Lisbon, where he has taught since 1993. He has also taught at the Nova School of Business and Economics and the School of Law at Universidade Nova, in the areas of Portuguese and European Economics, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. João Amador has been an editor and author of book chapters on the Portuguese Economy and International Trade and has published articles in international scientific journals.
She is a researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht. She is also a researcher at CEDIS – Centre for Research and Development on Law and Society (Nova Direito). She researches and publishes in the areas of Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and European Law.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities in 1994. He completed her Master’s degree in Anthropology: Heritage and Identities at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon in 1999, before defending his PhD in Culture and Social Anthropology at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences in 2007. In 2008, he joined the Research Centre for Economic and Organisational Sociology at the University of Lisbon (ISEG-ULisboa), where he conducted his postdoctoral research focusing on sociological studies of finance and organisational ethnography. His research areas also include social studies of finance and the new configurations of policing and security.
A civil engineer in territorial planning (FEUP), he was born in Porto in 1952. He was on the North Region Planning Committee for the introduction of the GATs and leads the Terra Quente Transmontana Association of Municipalities. He was Chairman of Nor-Risco – Capital de Risco, SA and Director of the European Venture Capital Association; Vice-Chairman of the CCRN, coordinating the Vale Ave OID and cooperation with Galicia. He launched SPIDOURO, SA, where he promoted Historic Trains, the Douro World Heritage Candidacy and Lavradores de Feitoria, as well as many other projects. From 2003, he worked as a consultant with API and advised a number of governments on the promotion of forestry investment, launching Bosque – Inovação e Desenvolvimento Florestal, SA.
Assistant professor (since 2016) and coordinator of Constitutional Law at the Porto Catholic University of Lisbon School of Law. She is also the executive coordinator of the Master’s degree courses in Law (2022), scientific coordinator of the Master’s degree courses in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Human Rights and co-coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Degree in Human Rights.
She is a member of the Coordination Council of the "Academic Network on The European Social Charter and Social Rights" and co-editor of the series "Constitutionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean" (Hart Publishing).
She is a member of the International Society of Public Law and the International Association of Electoral Law. Her most recent publications are: "Regulating Parties by Constitutional Rules in Liberal Democracies" (with Nuno Garoupa), in the German Law Journal, vol. 24 (9) 2023; "Academic Freedom as a Defensive Right" (with M. Stachowiak-Kudla, S. Westa & I. Bartha), Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, vol. 15, 2023; "The Presentist Portuguese Constitution, in The Architecture of Constitutional Amendments: History, Law, Politics", Hart Publishing, 2023; "Portugal: A European Union-friendly jurisdiction (with Marta Vicente), EU Law and National Constitutions: The Constitutional Dynamics of Multi-Level Governance", Routledge, 2024. And also "The end of the deception? Counteracting algorithmic discrimination in the digital age", in The Oxford Handbook on Digital Constitutionalism, Oxford University Press, 2024, in press.
He holds a PhD in Law from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and teaches on the Master’s in Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Financial Management and Business Auditing, and on the PhD course in Blockchain and other digital technologies at the UPF Barcelona School of Management. He specialises in contract law and civil liability. He worked on his research at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.
Founder of the European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO) at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI. Professor of Political Science and holder of the Swiss Chair of Federalism and Democracy at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.
He completed his PhD in Political Science (with distinction) at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Before coming to the EUI in 2005, he was Deputy Director of the Centre for Research and Documentation on Direct Democracy (C2D) at the School of Law of the University of Geneva (1999-2005).
Researcher at the Observatory of Portuguese Legislation, FDUNL, Master’s degree in Law from Nova University Lisbon, where she also graduated from, she was an advisor to the Portuguese Parliament’s Working Group for Legislative Consolidation and a lawyer at the Ministry of Justice.
