Politics

Neurologist at the Cerebrovascular Diseases Unit of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Central, assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon and researcher at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Lisbon.
A member of the editorial board of the ‘European Stroke Journal’ and the ‘International Journal of Stroke’, she has authored or co-authored more than 80 articles and book chapters. Her main interests are cerebral venous thrombosis, implementation of stroke care, stroke in young people and pregnant women.

Last updated: january 2025

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

Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. After graduating from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences-Po in Paris, she received her PhD in Political Science from Harvard University in 2008. She is the author of «Hume. Probabilité et Choix Raisonnable» (PUF: 2004) and «Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many» (Princeton University Press, 2013, winner of the 2015 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for best work in democratic/liberal theory published two years earlier). She is co-editor, with Jon Elster, of «Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanism» (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She is currently researching and writing a new book provisionally entitled «After Representation: Rethinking Democracy for the 21st Century». She has published several articles based on subjects such as the consensus on deliberative democracy, the 2010-2013 constitutional process, crowdsourced policymaking in Finland and workplace democracy.