Politics

Author of two New York Times bestsellers – «Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?» and «So Here’s the Thing» – and co-host of Hysteria, a podcast produced exclusively by women at Crooked Media. Between 2022 and 2014, she was Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at the White House. She previously held various positions in President Barak Obama's administration, in the areas of campaigns, political action and the Senate office.
She was Chief Operating Officer of Vice Media, President of Global Communications and Strategy at A&E Networks. She currently serves on the boards of the nonpartisan voter registration organisation, Headcount, the Honors College at the University of Vermont, and the Board of Visitors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Specialist in International Relations, professor and researcher at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was a professor at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He did a Master’s degree in International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth (UK). He holds a PhD in Critical Security Studies, also from Aberystwyth, with a thesis on the reform of police forces as a US foreign policy tool in the context of post-conflict state-building. He was a researcher at the Centre for Global Studies at George Mason University in Washington.

Last updated: March 2023

PhD candidate at the Institute of Social Sciences-UL, with research that seeks to understand and explain the impact of transition to democracy models on the formation and development of the partisan right in Portugal and Spain.

Last updated: March 2023

José Pedro Monteiro is an assistant researcher at the University of Coimbra Centre for the History of Society and Culture. He has a PhD in History (ICS-UL, 2017), with a thesis on the internationalisation processes of the issue of «indigenous labour».
José regularly publishes articles on this and other topics in national and international journals, and he wrote the book «Portugal e a Questão do Trabalho Forçado: Um Império Sob Escrutínio (1944-1962)» (Edições 70, 2018).

Last updated: August 2025

He is Professor of Political Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and has a PhD from the Juan March Institute (Madrid). He holds an ICREA Academia Award (2019-2024). His research interests focus on the political consequences of electoral laws, political behaviour and political parties. He is editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Political Science, the section on Elections and Representation, and associate editor of the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Last updated: March 2023

Assistant Professor at the University of Trieste. She is also a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova – Nova FCSH) and the Portuguese Institute of International Relations. Her main research interests focus on parliaments from a comparative perspective, in particular the study of parliamentary opposition and the legislative process.

Last updated: March 2023

Senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, where he coordinates the Security Research Group. He is a member of the Law & Ethics Research Group, the PRIO Middle East Centre and the PRIO Migration Centre. He was previously Assistant Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. His interests focus on the intersection between technological developments, security practices and social change.

Last updated: March 2023

Lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK. She previously taught at the University of Hull. She specialises in the study of relations between citizens and parliaments and the involvement of citizens in politics. Chair of IPEN, the International Parliament Engagement Network, a network that brings together academics and practitioners from around the world to share practices on public engagement and ways to improve it.

Last updated: March 2023

Associate Professor at the University of Bath. Previously she was a College Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University, where she taught and did research. She was also a researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy programme (WAPPP). She holds a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University, a Master’s degree in Comparative Politics (Europe) from the LSE and a BA in Government from Dartmouth College.

Last updated: March 2023