Politics

Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI) at NOVA FCSH. Her research interests are related to international relations studies, the history of European integration, Europeanization studies, European funds and Portuguese foreign policy.
She has a PhD in history, a master’s degree in international relations and a degree in political science. She is a member of the European Union Liaison Committee of Historians.

Last updated: March 2024

Rapper, lyricist and columnist, with a degree in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL.
Her discography includes three albums under her own name: «Bad Temper »(2007), «Medusa» (2015) and «Mother-of-Pearl» (2020). She is also the author of two mixtapes, a remix album and two children's books with accompanying music, as well as various other projects.
In 2022, she released her first book «Aquarius», a collection of chronicles, poems and lyrics.
She was a columnist for «Visão» magazine and D«iário de Notícias» and currently writes for the newspaper «Público».

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

Visiting assistant professor at the Catholic University of Portugal School of Humanities. He is a researcher at the Centre for Communication and Culture Studies at the same university. His areas of interest include literary journalism, the history of journalism and written reporting.
He has a PhD in Communication Sciences, he worked at the European Commission in Brussels and he was a research fellow at Nova University Lisbon.
He is the author of several publications and the FFMS Portrait «A Library, a Second Home».

Last updated: January 2024

President of the European Parliament. In Brussels, she also serves as Head of Delegation for Malta’s Nationalist Party, one of the political forces that make up the European People's Party Group.
She graduated in 2003, the year Malta, where she was born, joined the EU. She is a lawyer, specialising in law and European politics.
She was elected as an MEP for the first time in 2013, becoming the first Maltese woman to win a mandate, which she went on to secure in all subsequent elections (2014 and 2019).
Between 2020 and 2022, Metsola was Vice-President of the European Parliament, during which time she was also responsible for relations with national parliaments and for interreligious and non-confessional dialogue.

Last updated: November 2023

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.

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

Simon Sebag Montefiore is an internationally bestselling author and historian whose prize-winning books have been published in 48 languages. He is the author of the bestseller «Jerusalem: A History of the Middle East», «Young Stalin» and «The World: A Family History».
In 2025, he was awarded the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Prize (Canada) for «his body of work in humanity and history».
He read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University where he received his PhD.
He is the presenter of five history series for the BBC and many of his books are being developed for movies or drama series.

Graduated in Communication and Journalism, with a postgraduate degree in Political Advising and Media. On her way to a master's degree in Political Science at ISCTE.
She is FFMS' Content and Portal Manager.

Last updated: may 2026

She is a professor at the University of Coimbra School of Economics, where she coordinates the Master’s degree in Sociology, and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES). She was Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality in the 21st and 22nd Constitutional Governments (2017-2022). She has a PhD in Sociology of the State, Law and Administration, a Master’s degree in Families and Social Systems and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology. Over the last decade, her research has been in the field of equality and public and organisational policies of non-discrimination, gender mainstreaming and official bodies for equality and non-discrimination.

Last updated: September 2023