Politics

He has a master’s degree in legal and political sciences and a law degree. A professional lawyer with over 15 years’ experience, he has also been a member of Parliament (2011-2013) and Secretary of State for Tourism (2013-2015). Furthermore, he served as vice-president of the CDS-PP (2016-2019). He has been a commentator and columnist for SIC, TSF, Visão, Jornal de Negócios, Diário de Notícias and i.

Last updated: April 2023

Margarida Marques is a Portuguese MEP from the Partido Socialista, part of the Socialists and Democrats group.
She was elected a member of the European Parliament in 2019 and currently serves as vice-chair of the Committee on Budgets and member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and of the Committee on International Trade. Marques was the European Parliament rapporteur on the European Economic Governance Review and Parliament´s co-negotiator on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021-2027.
She was also rapporteur for opinion on the revision of treaties in the ECON Committee and S&D rapporteur for the 2022 annual report on the European Central Bank. Marques is currently member of the European Parliament´s recovery and resilience facility and chair of the Euro area accession countries working groups.
Before her election at the European Parliament, she held political positions as member of the Portuguese Parliament and state secretary for european affairs of the Portuguese government.
She holds an MA degree in educational sciences.

She is a researcher in the area of Political Communication and a professor at the Catholic University of Portugal.
She is also a professor and visiting researcher at several international universities.

Last updated: june 2026

Visiting assistant professor in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro. He is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the same university. He holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Porto.

PhD candidate in Comparative Politics at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He has a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Aveiro and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Brasilia. He worked as an economist for almost a decade in public institutions in Brazil. His main research interests are democracies, corruption and public opinion.

He' s the Statistical Data Manager at Pordata-FFMS. He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the Federal University of Viçosa, in Brazil, and a master's and bachelor's degree in Economics from the same institution.
He was an international researcher at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, in Germany, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He has published work on the economics of crime, corruption and incentive mechanisms.

Last Update: March 2024

Assistant Professor at the University of Porto School of Law. PhD in Law from the University of Porto School of Law. He is a researcher at the Centre for Legal and Economic Research (CIJE).

Visiting assistant professor at Católica Porto Business School. PhD in Economics from the University of Porto School of Economics.

Visiting assistant professor at Católica Porto Business School. PhD in Economics from the University of Porto School of Economics.

Visiting assistant professor at Católica Porto Business School. She has a PhD in Economics from the University of Porto School of Economics.