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Sociologist. She teaches at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG-ULisboa). Researches in the social studies of science, particularly on topics such as climate, water and the involvement of citizens in environmental policies.

Last updated: March 2022

She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute and she was a consultant at the University of Gothenburg and a researcher at the University of Lisbon and Nova University Lisbon.

Last updated: November 2023

She teaches at ISCTE-IUL, from undergraduate to PhD level, focusing on subjects such as Democracy and Democratisation and Quality of Democracy. She is a member of three research networks: the Quality of Democracy Barometer; Lusophone Connections: dictatorship and democracy in Portuguese; V-Dem Southern Europe – Varieties of Democracy. She was a researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-IUL). She has also carried out research at the University of Utrecht, the European University Institute in Florence, the University of São Paulo, the University of California, Berkeley and the Juan March Institute in Madrid. She has a PhD in Political and Social Sciences, a Master's degree in Comparative Politics and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology.

A specialist in Political Economy and Public Economics, she got her PhD in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She has been an associate professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE) since 2004, where she was academic director of the doctoral and Master’s programmes in Economics. She has also taught at the Catholic University of Portugal, the University of Luxembourg and the Catholic University of Louvain. She is an associate researcher at CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) and CORE (Centre for Operations Research and Econometrics) at the Catholic University of Louvain.
Between 2014 and 2017, she was an economic consultant at Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: September 2017

He has a PhD in Economics from Birkbeck, University of London and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Coimbra. He is the author or coordinator of eight books on the Portuguese economy and has published articles in international scientific journals. He has worked as a consultant for public and private organisations, including the European Commission, the Portuguese Government, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Court of Auditors, the Portuguese Business Confederation (CIP), the Portuguese Insurance Association and the Porto Commercial Association. He is a member of the panel of commentators on RTP3's 360º programme and works regularly with the media.

Last updated: April 2024

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Lisbon School of Law and a Master's degree in Law from the School of Human Sciences, now the Catholic University of Lisbon School of Law. Guest lecturer at this faculty (Lisbon School), co-coordinator of the postgraduate courses in Commercial Law and assistant coordinator of the Master’s degree in Business Law. Lawyer (legal consultant), author and co-author of several texts, articles and case law commentaries, lecture summaries and opinions, mainly in the area of Commercial Law. Former scholarship holder at DAAD and the Max Planck Institut in Munich (Industrial Property Law).

She is a specialist in political science and European integration, the dean of the Munich School of Political Science, while at the same time taking up the management of the School of Governance at the Technical University of Munich, where she heads the chair on European and Global Governance.
She has a PhD in Political Science from the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at the Free University of Berlin, with aggregation from the Humboldt University of Berlin, and has taught at both universities. She was also a professor at the Technical University of Dresden, where she served as deputy director of the Centre for International Studies.
She has been a visiting professor at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University, USA, the European University Institute in Florence and the Centre for Research in Social Sciences (WZB) in Berlin, among others.
She has won several awards and distinctions, including a consolidation grant from the European Research Council and the Heisenberg grant from the German Science Foundation.
She is the author of several books and monographs, with emphasis on the essay «The Future of the European Union», published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in 2016.

Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Lisbon School of Law, where she graduated (1996), got her Master's degree (2004) and a PhD (2014). She is the coordinator of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law. She was co-executive coordinator of the Catholic University of Portugal Arbitration Centre from 2013 to 2017. She has published and carried out research in the areas of Civil Law and Criminal Law, particularly in the areas of collision of rights, co-ownership of rights and franchising contracts.

Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto.
She was vice-governor of the Bank of Portugal between 2017 e 2019. Later that year, she became European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms until 2024.
SHe served as minister for Planning and for the Environment in the two governments led by António Guterres.
She was a Member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2016. She was the coordinator for the Group of Socialists and Democrats in the EP’s Economic and Monetary (ECON) Committee. Before that, she was a member of the Portuguese National Parliament.
With a degree in Economics from the University of Porto and a Masters (1981) and a PhD (1985) from the University of Reading, in the UK, she was a member of the board of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística.

Last update: september 2026

Born in 1942, got is PhD in Mechanical Engineering from IST in 1973. He was among other duties, General Director of Higher Education between 1976 and 1980 World Bank Project of the General Coordinator in Education between 1980 and 1985; President of the National Council of Education 1992-1995; Minister of Education 1995 to 1999; Administrator of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation between 2000 and 2015. He is currently the President of the General Council of the University of Aveiro since 2015. he is also de member of other several institutions. He is the author of several publications in the field of engineering and in the areas of Education and Development Aid. He was awarded the orders of : Military Sant 'Iago of the Sword of Merit and Public Instruction.

Last updated: july 2022