Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research interests include European history and politics, the development of democracy, populism and fascism and the history of the left. She writes on these topics for a wide variety of academic and non-academic publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and VOX. She is currently on the boards of the Journal of Democracy, Dissent and Political Science Quarterly. Her latest book, «Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day», was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.
He graduated in social communication from the Catholic University and began his career as a journalist at «Jornal de Letras». He has worked as a scriptwriter since 1998. He was a founding member of «Gato Fedorento» along with Miguel Góis, Zé Diogo Quintela and Tiago Dores. He writes weekly for «Visão» magazine, the Brazilian daily «Folha de S. Paulo» and is one of the members of the TSF/TVI24 programmme «Shadow Government». He is the author and presenter of the SIC programme «This Is Making Fun of People Who Work».
Radio presenter, comedian and television host. He was a member of the Fictional Productions team and co-wrote «Herman Encyclopaedia», «Paradise Films», «The Maria Show» and «The Contemporaries». He was born in Lisbon in 1971.
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.
Doctor and sexologist.
He works with the Directorate-General for Health on programmes dedicated to youth, sexuality and reproduction, violence prevention and communication.
He is the author of four books: «Our Small Surfaces», published by Quatro Margens Editora in 1998, «Teenagers, Parents and Everything in Between», by Texto Editores in 2002, «The Unruly Flight of Eros», by Dom Quixote (2008), and in 2016 he released «Sex, You Don’t Ask for Much!» published by Livros Horizonte.
Visual artist and illustrator.
She has a fine arts degree from the School of Arts and Design of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and a Master's Degree in Contemporary Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.
President of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality since October 2020, after leaving her post as Director-General of the Directorate-General for Employment and Labour Relations (2018-2020).
Between 2010 and 2014, she chaired the Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment.
She completed a postgraduate course in labour law and legislation techniques and a law degree.
Member of the Portuguese Parliament for over ten years.
She chaired the Parliamentary Committee for Parity, Equal Opportunities and Family between 1995 and 1999. Since 1998, she has held the same position in the European Network of Parliamentary Committees for Equal Opportunities.
She has a degree in Social and Political Sciences from ISCSP, where she served as Visiting Assistant Professor. She was also Lecturer at the Portuguese Catholic University.
Jurist in the area of gender equality. She is a member of the Scientific Technical Group of the Advisory Board of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG) and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (CIEG) of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
She is the author of several articles on gender equality, an educator and a speaker.
She was Secretary of State for Equality between 2004 and 2005 and President of the Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment (CITE). She represented Portugal on the Board of Directors and the Expert Forum of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).
In 2019, she was awarded the Maria Barroso Prize.
Portuguese Ambassador to Moscow since 2021.
In 2019, she became the first woman to head the Directorate-General for Foreign Policy (DGPE), a structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She began her diplomatic career in 1995, having also worked in the embassies of Berlin, Islamabad (Pakistan) and Egypt.