Politics

Pedro Camões holds a PhD from the University of South Carolina and is assistant professor in the department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro.
He teaches and researches in the fields of decentralisation and local government, having published around twenty articles in international journals.
His consultancy work includes studies for the Directorate-General for Local Authorities, the Ministry of the Economy of Portugal, the Municipality of Porto and the OECD.
He has also served as an adviser to the Government of Mozambique as part of state decentralisation projects led by the World Bank.

Last updated: June 2025

Nonresident fellow in energy and global oil at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He has over 35 years of experience working at the intersections of energy, economics and public policy.
Before joining the Baker Institute, he was the senior U.S. economist at BP. For 12 years, he led the production of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, the world’s longest-running compilation of objective global energy data. He also was responsible for the company’s long- and short-term oil market analysis, and he led the global oil market and transportation sector analyses for the long-term BP Energy Outlook.
Prior to joining BP, he was an analyst and manager at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. He was responsible for assessing the implications for U.S. strategic interests of developments in global oil and other energy markets,
Finley is a senior fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics. He has held leadership roles in the International Association for Energy Economics, the National Association for Business Economics, and the Conference of Business Economics, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and holds graduate degrees from Northwestern University (in economics) and the George Washington University (in finance).

Last update: march 2025

Cátia Mazari Oliveira, known by her stage name ‘A Garota Não’, is a singer and songwriter.
In 2023, she won the Golden Globe for ‘Best Performer’. In the same year, she was honoured by the Portuguese Society of Authors with the ‘Best Popular Music Work’ award for her album ‘2 de Abril’. The following year, this album won the ‘José da Ponte Prize’, awarded by the same organisation.
She has a degree in Communication and Culture from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon.

Last updated: January 2025

He is an associate professor in the Sociology department at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology at the same institution.
He is the author of several articles published in scientific journals and five books - «O Direito de Não Ser Desinformado - Media, fact-checking e literacias em Portugal» is the most recent, published in 2025.
He has a PhD in Ethics and Anthropology from the University of Salento in Italy and did his post-doctorate at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra.

Last updated: January 2025

She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP). She is professor in the department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and integrated researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the same university (IS-UP).
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Master in Sociology at the University of Porto, she is also part of other international research centres: Associate Researcher in Centre for Geography and Spatial Planning Studies (CEGOT); CITCEM – Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory» and Dinâmia’CET - Iscte IUL.

Last updated: january 2025

Vocalist and author. She has a degree in Law, but her entire career has been in music. She has a general piano course.

Last updated: January 2025