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A Canadian-born, naturalised American psychologist and linguist, he obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Experimental Psychology at McGill University before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1976, where he has spent most of his career. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1979 and was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at MIT. He then became Assistant Professor at Harvard before returning to MIT a year later. He left MIT in 2003 after accepting a teaching position at Harvard, where he remains a member of the Psychology Department with the title of Johnstone Family Professor. He was also Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Striving to clarify his theses and make them accessible to a general public, he has published books such as «The Language Instinct», «How the Mind Works», «The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature», «The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature» and «The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined». One of this evolutionary psychologist's latest books is entitled «The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century», in which he argues that, despite all the conflicts currently ongoing in today's world, there has never been a better time to be alive. Named «Humanist of the Year» and Honorary President of the Canadian Psychological Association, Foreign Policy magazine included him in its list of the 100 greatest intellectuals in the USA and Time in its list of the Most Influential People in the World Today. He is a regular contributor to various publications, such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Time and The Atlantic. His tenth book, «The Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress», was released in 2018 and has been published in Portugal.

American philosopher and essayist, he is Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University, where he began teaching in 1980. After completing his undergraduate studies, he attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, before attaining his doctorate at Balliol College, Oxford, under the guidance of philosopher Charles Taylor, who was a profound influence on him. In 1980, he accepted an invitation to join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where for decades he was in charge of the «Justice» course. With a total of over 15,000 students enrolled over the years, the course was one of the most widely-attended in Harvard’s history and was even recorded and put online for free access, obtaining millions of views. Included in «Foreign Policy's» list of 100 Global Thinkers, considered by Newsweek to be the «most relevant living philosopher» and an authentic «rock star», and by The New Republic as the «most famous philosophy professor on the planet», Michael Sandel postulates that philosophy should be taught through dialogue and only makes sense in close relation to everyday life, which is why he always tries to incorporate the context in which his discussions take place. His work has been translated into 27 languages and expressed in various books where moral reflection and the deepening of democratic life are irrevocably linked. His most recent bestseller, «What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets», is an invitation to readers to rethink the role that money and markets play in our lives and was named by Foreign Policy as one of the 20 must-read books of the year. He currently continues giving seminars on ethics and biotechnology and teaching the course «Ethics, Economics and the Law».

A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.

Author, journalist and consultant best-known for his collaboration with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. After Labour's victory in the 1997 elections, he became Blair's chief press secretary and official spokesman, responsible for coordinating government communications. In 1999, he was seconded to NATO to oversee communications during the Kosovo conflict. After another election victory, he was appointed Director of Communications and Strategy, a post he held until his resignation in 2003. However, Campbell again collaborated with the Labour leaders (Blair, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband) in the following three elections. He was also a consultant for the Better Together campaign against Scottish independence and for Remain in the Brexit referendum campaign. Campbell also continues to advise centre-left parties in several countries, particularly in the Balkans. He is the author of several books, including ten volumes of his diaries.

Last updated: May 2022

He is Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent member of the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna.
He has published countless books translated into over 40 languages, including the books «Bloodlands – Europe between Hitler and Stalin», «On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century», «The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America» and «Our Sickness: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary», published in Portugal.
He has received various awards, including the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, the Leipzig Book Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Prize, the Dutch Auschwitz Committee Prize and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Medal.
His work has inspired paintings, posters, sculptures, plays, films, an opera, as well as punk rock and rap songs.

Last updated: April 2021

He serves as a special advisor for Europe at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London and special advisor to the think tank The Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS) in Paris.
He has collaborated with several French governments on defence and national security issues and was a Professor of World Politics at Sciences-Po in Paris. He has also served on the advisory bodies of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, the International Commission for the Balkans and the European Commission.
He was president of the IISS Centre for Security Policy in Geneva and was a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Bosch Academy in Berlin.
He is the author of several books on national security and terrorism, most recently «The Time of Predators: China, the US, Russia and Us».

A social anthropologist, he earned his doctorate at Harvard and currently teaches at Boston University. He is president of the American Institute for Afghanistan Studies.
He is the author of various books, including «The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan» (1981), «The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China» (1989) and «Afghanistan: An Atlas of Indigenous Domestic Architecture» (1991). In 2006, he received a Guggenheim fellowship, which led to the publication of «Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History» (2010), a book that received an exceptional title award from the American Library Association in 2011.

Last updated: December 2021

He is one of the world's most renowned statisticians, having gained prominence for his innovative analyses of political data. During the 2008 presidential elections, he correctly predicted the results of the primaries and the presidential winner in 49 states. In 2012, he repeated the feat for 50 of the 50 states.
He is considered a pioneer of the new field of data journalism with his website FiveThirtyEight. In partnership with ABC News, Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight have contributed to election coverage by continuing to apply statistical probability models to areas such as sports or science.
He is the author of the book «The Signal and The Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction», which made The New York Times best seller list.

Last updated: January 2022

She is the Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University in Milan, where she teaches political science. A specialist in European politics, she has published several books, one of which was considered one of the five best books on the future of Europe by the Financial Times.
She is a columnist for the Dutch edition of the Financial Times, a member of the European Integration Committee of the Dutch Advisory Council for Foreign Affairs and sits on the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. In 2013, she was named a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum for her social impact.

Last updated: March 2022

He is a leading expert on Russian politics and security, specialising in non-military conflicts, intelligence services and crime.
Director of the Mayak Intelligence consultancy in London, he is an honorary professor at University College London and has lectured at universities in the USA, the Czech Republic and Russia. With a PhD in Politics from the LSE and a degree in History from Robinson College, Cambridge, he is a consultant to various bodies and NGOs linked to the UK government and NATO.
His most recent books include «The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia» (Yale, 2018), «Russian Political War (Routledge, 2019), «We Need to Talk About Putin» (Ebury, 2019) and «The Weaponization of Everything» (Yale, 2022).

Last updated: March 2022