Politics

Patrícia Silva holds a PhD in Political Science. She is assistant professor at the University of Aveiro and a researcher at the Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP) at the University of Aveiro, where her work focuses on political parties, the politicisation of appointed elite recruitment and political participation and representation.
She is the author of the essay «Jobs for the Boys? Civil Service Appointments» published by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in 2020.

Last updated: september 2026

He has a PhD in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), an institution where he is a member of the Centre for Economics of Education and where he got his Bachelor's degree and MPhil in Economics. His research focuses on the subjects of Economics of Education and Human Capital, such as: measures of added value for teachers, differentials between internal and external scores, reasons behind the progression in PISA tests and factors of success in higher education.
His work uses comprehensive databases of both the labour market and the Portuguese education system. He was also involved in the impact assessment for different educational projects developed in Portugal. He was a visiting student in the economics department at the University College of London (UCL). He is a visiting assistant at Nova SBE for several Bachelor’s degree and Master's degree courses.

Last updated: August 2023

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

He has a PhD from the European University Institute of Florence and he is an associate professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics. He has a Bachelor's degree in History from Nova University Lisbon and a PhD in History and Civilisation from the European University Institute of Florence, specialising in the area of Economic History. His books and scientific articles have been published by international publishing houses and in magazines. He has also published books for the general public, such as «The Portuguese Economy», «Recent Decades», in 2010, published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, «A Grand Life», in 2014, and «In the name of the Father and of the Son...», in 2015, both published by Publicações D. Quixote.

Last updated: February 2022

Economist and researcher in Political Science at ISCTE-IUL. Director of the postgraduate Pprogram in Critical Thinking and Decision-Making at ISCTE Executive Education, and guest lecturer at Católica-Lisbon.
Consultant, trainer, and speaker on critical thinking and decision-making, with organizations such as Sonae, Nestlé, Fidelidade, Bosch, Isdin, E.Leclerc, Auchan, and C2, among others.
Host of the award-winning podcast «45 Graus» (currently, in partnership with the newspaper Expresso).
Commentator on the program «Contraponto», broadcast on the tv channel RTP News.

Last update: may 2025

He has a PhD in Anthropology from ISCTE-IUL and is an emeritus researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. Among the topics to which he has devoted his attention are Portuguese rural society, family and kinship, nationalism, racism, social memory, the history of anthropology, food and cooking and epidemics (the «Spanish flu»). Among his publications, as author and editor, are the books: «Trajetos: o Passado e o Presente na Vida de uma Freguesia da Beira» (1999); with Jorge Vala, «Identidade Nacional, Inclusão e Exclusão Social» (2010); «Portugal, the Portuguese: A National Identity" (2012); with Nuno Domingos and Harry G. West, «Food between the Country and the City: Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape» (2014); with Manuel Carlos Silva, «Ethnicity, Nationalism and Racism: Migration, Ethnic Minorities and School Contexts» (2015); «The Ethnography of Aquilino Ribeiro» (2021). He was president of the Portuguese Anthropology Association (APA) and director of the journal «Análise Social».

Last updated: May 2022

He has worked in consumer policy for about 40 years. In addition to his work, he was an association representative, having served on the Consumer Advisory Committee, in the European Commission and on the board of the European Consumers’ Association. He was the author of television and radio programmes, as well as several works in the specific field of consumption.
He often works with regional press and blogs and does voluntary work with consumer associations as their representative. Since 2006, he has also devoted himself to studies on the Portuguese colony in Guinea and political life in Guinea-Bissau, subjects on which he has published a number of books.


Last updated: January 2023

Born in 1947, he graduated in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon and led several Ministries in different governments (Internal Affairs, National Defense and Foreign Affairs). He was Member of Parliament from 1975 to 2011, were he held office as Speaker, consequently becoming a member of the Council of State. Presently, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Lisbon University and of the Strategy Board of the Political Studies Institute of the Lisbon Catholic University. Member of the Supervisory Board of the Military University Institute and of the High Council of the Navy’s Centre for Strategic Studies. He also belongs to the Aspen Ministers Forum. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novo Banco Azores and Chairman of the Supervisory Board for the electronic newspaper Observador. He is Senior Strategic Counsel at Albright Stonebridge Group. He was awarded several Portuguese and foreign decorations. He received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Azores and is Chancellor of the Ancient Portuguese Military Orders.

Last updated: september 2022

Inês Lopes Gonçalves is a radio and television host. On the radio she is currently one of Rádio Renascença's «As Três da Manhã», and on television she hosts the talk show «Traz Pr'á Frente» on RTP and RTP Memória.
She has been one of the faces of the Festival da Canção since 2017. She began her career in information as a journalist at Rádio Renascença, worked for Sport Tv, Canal Q and collaborated with Time Out, Sábado and Expresso magazines.

Última atualização: janeiro de 2022

Director of Pordata and member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. She holds a PhD in Statistics and Computing and graduated in Mathematics, Luísa Loura is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She was director of the Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics. As a researcher, she published works in the areas of extreme theory, stochastic processes, biostatistics and the teaching of statistics.