Politics

Full Professor of Epidemiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto and President of the Institute of Public Health of the same institution. He coordinates the Epidemiology Research Unit and the Associated Laboratory for Integrative and Translational Research in Population Health (ITR).
He is also president of theAssociation of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER).
He has carried out research in areas such as clinical and perinatal epidemiology, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases and cancer, which has resulted in hundreds of international scientific publications.

Last update: January 2025

Producer of television programmes, films, editorial content for the press and radio programmes. Amongst the content produced are: «Biosfera», «Liga dos Últimos», «A Ruína do BES», «Radar de Negócios» and, for FFMS, «A Revolução da Energia Limpa», «Portugal, uma casa para todos» and four episodes of the series «Cinco Décadas de Democracia».

Last update: january 2025

Actress. She won the award for Best Secondary Actress at the Sophia Awards, in 2024, for her role in the film ‘Mal Viver’, directed by João Canijo.
She appeared in the film ‘Ramiro’, by Manuel Mozos, in ‘Pôr do Sol: O Mistério do Colar de São Cajó’, by Manuel Pureza, and in several TVI, SIC and RTP1 soap operas.

Last update: january 2025

Director of Civitta Portugal (formerly Gestluz Consultores). He is president of Invicta Angels - the Northern Association of Early-Stage Investors - of which he was a founder. He is also a business strategy and management consultant.
He was executive director of Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento (now BPF) between 2015 and 2017, and co-founded the National Federation of Business Angels Associations in 2007.
He has a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of Porto and a master's degree in Design for Sustainability from Cranfield University, UK, and a postgraduate qualification in Political Journalism from the Catholic University.

Last updated: january 2025

Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto's School of Education, in the area of Pedagogical Supervision, and coordinator of the master's programme in Pre-School Education and Primary School Teaching.
She was honoured with the ‘Global Teacher Prize Portugal 2020’ (3rd edition), an award internationally considered to be the ‘nobel of education’. She was in the TOP 50 of the Global Teacher Prize worldwide in 2021.
Since October 2016, she has been the mentor and national coordinator of COOPERA, a pedagogical intervention and innovation project.
She has a PhD in Education and Human Development from the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), a degree in Education Sciences from FPCEUP (Porto) and a bachelor's degree in Primary School Teachers (1st Cycle) from ISEC (Lisbon). She is currently doing a post-doctorate in Education Sciences, specialising in Pedagogical Practice and Research and Didactics, at UTAD (Vila Real).

Last updated: january 2025

Full Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University and a researcher at the Research Centre for Human Development (CEDH).
He is a (co-opted) member of the National Educational Board.
He was secretary of State for Elementary and Secondary Education in the XII Constitutional Government in 1992/93 and member of the Steering Committee of CERI - Centre for Studies and Research on Innovation in Education, of the OECD.
He was the first Director of the Faculty of Education and Psychology at UCP and Director of the School of Arts.
He is the editor of the Portuguese Journal for Educational Research. He is President of the Board of Directors of the Manuel Leão Foundation. He received his doctorate in Education Sciences from the University of Lisbon in 1999.

Last update: january 2025

Full Professor at ISPA - Instituto Universitário and researcher at the William James Centre for Research, ISPA's research unit dedicated to Psychology.
His main research interests include Psychometric Validation, Structural Equation Analysis, Linear Modelling and Ecophysiology. He is the author of several books and more than 300 articles in the fields of Biological Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Psychometrics and Statistics.
He was an consultant for the World Bank.

Last updated: January 2025

Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship at Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland.
He is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization & Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park. Anil is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy, globalization and entrepreneurship.
Ranked by «Thinkers50» as 'one of the world’s most influential living management thinkers', he has also been named by The Economist as one of the world's «superstars» for research on emerging economies, and inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ «Hall of Fame».
He is one of only three professors, out of over 25000 worldwide, to have been elected a Lifetime Fellow of the three most prestigious academic bodies in his field – Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business. He is the author of several best-selling books including «The Quest for Global Dominance», «Getting China and India Right», and «The Silk Road Rediscovered».
Anil Gupta received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Last update: january 2025

He is a principal investigator at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. Over the years, in several countries, from the United States to Israel, as well as England and Brazil, he has devoted himself to the study of nationalism, right-wing and left-wing sociopolitical movements, as well as issues related to political leadership. In 2021, Zúquete organised the «Routledge International Handbook of Charisma».

Last updated: April 2022

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