Politics

Science communication consultant and press columnist. He has been a journalist for most of his professional life. He worked for the weekly Expresso and the daily Público, of which he was one of the founders, where he created the first daily science section in the Portuguese press and founded the newspaper's website. He has devoted himself to training journalists and teaching science communication at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as providing a stage for science and technology.

He holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, he is a professor of Economics at Nova SBE and a researcher at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London.
His research focuses on a wide range of topics, going from the relationship between democracy and economic growth to the macroeconomic cost of gender discrimination and has been published in several academic journals, such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and in works published by Harvard University Press, MIT Press, Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press.
His academic work has been commented on in publications such as Time Magazine, The New York Times, Handelsblatt and La Repubblica, and discussed on specialised opinion article sites such as Vox.eu and Eurointelligence.
He was co-editor, with Francesco Caselli and Mário Centeno, of «After the Crisis: Reform, Recovery and Growth in Europe», and author of the essay «Europe Is Not a Foreign Country», a discussion on the past and future of Europe as an idea.

Last updated: October 2023

He has a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, 2005). Assistant Professor at FCSH-UNL and researcher at IPRI-UNL. Researcher on the project «Democracy in times of crisis: power and discourse in a three-level game» and on the V-Dem project: Varieties of Democracy. He has studied the processes of state formation, civil society and social policy from a comparative historical perspective.

Last updated: March 2022

Member of the Board of Directors of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2022-2027).
Founder of NEWES, New Energy Solutions. Visiting professor at the MIT-Portugal programme. Former president of the Regulatory Authority for the Energy Sector (ERSE). And electrotechnical engineer, he got his Bachelor's degree from the University of Porto and his PhD from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Last updated: April 2024

He is professor of Fundamentals of Public Law and Fundamental Rights at the Católica Lisbon School of Law, where he was director between 2014 and 2022. He is a Bachelor’s degree, Master's degree and PhD from the same university.
He is an integrated member of the Catholic Research Centre for the Future of Law and he has done research on intergenerational justice and, more recently, on digital economy regulation, data protection and artificial intelligence.
Advisor to the Representative of the Republic for the Autonomous Region of the Azores and Jurisconsult.

Last updated: December 2023

He has a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL and a PhD in Anthropology from ISCTE-IUL. Among other topics, he has researched higher education policies, academic hazing, the state and political institutions, inequalities and social classes, and has written more than a dozen publications, including articles, books and scientific reports.

PhD student in Economics at the University of Minho. He has a Bachelor’s degree and a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Minho. He is particularly interested in the areas of Political Economy, Public Economy and Macroeconomics.

He is an assistant professor of Political Science at the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH-Nova) and an integrated researcher at IPRI-Nova.
He has worked in the field of comparative politics and political behaviour in particular, especially in the field of political participation.
He has published articles in a number of scientific journals such as «Political Geography» and «Representation.
In the Spring 2024 semester he was the FLAD visiting professor at the Department of Government of Georgetown University, in Washington DC.

Last updated: july 2025

Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. He was a research associate at the University of Cambridge and his research focuses on the interaction between micro-heterogeneity and macroeconomic dynamics, particularly on the topics of monetary policy and housing.
He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Last updated: October 2023

Economist in the Bank of Portugal’s Economics and Research Department, where he has worked since 2001. He graduated and obtained his PhD in Economics from Nova University Lisbon, where he has taught since 1993. He has also taught at the Nova School of Business and Economics and the School of Law at Universidade Nova, in the areas of Portuguese and European Economics, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. João Amador has been an editor and author of book chapters on the Portuguese Economy and International Trade and has published articles in international scientific journals.