Politics

Visiting lecturer at the Catholic University of Lisbon School of Law. Master’s degree in Law. Legal expert. Author and co-author of several works and articles in several areas of Labour Law. Lecturer or speaker at master's courses, postgraduate courses and conferences in a number of national and foreign educational institutions. Member of the team that drew up the preliminary draft of the Labour Code (2002-2003).

António da Gama Lobo Xavier holds a Law degree and a master's degree in Legal and Economic Sciences. He was a university professor of Economic Policy, Public Finance, Tax Law and Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law of the University de Coimbra and has several publications on these matters. He was a deputy and parliamentary leader of the CDS-PP political party. He is currently a specialist lawyer in tax law and a partner at Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados, Sociedade De Advogados. He is a member of the executive committee of Sonaecom and a non-executive director of Mota-Engil, SGPS, SA; BPI, SGPS, SA; Público, SA; and Riopele S.A. He was Chairman of the IRC Reform Commission (2013); he was also vice president of the Serralves Foundation. For several years he has been a resident commentator on the program “Quadratura do Círculo” (SIC Notícias) and “Circulatura do Quadrado” (TVI24).

Last updated: july 2022

Professor of Philosophy at Nova University Lisbon and Professor of Legal Theory in the PhD programme at the Nova School of Law in Lisbon. Phd in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon.

Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal. He is also a Reader in Economics, Political Economy and Public Policy at St Mary's University in London. He has been a member of the Mont Pelerin Society since 2011.

She has a PhD in Sociology and she is a full professor and coordinator of the Sociology Unit at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP). She founded and now runs the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (CIEG) at ISCSP. She has been a member of the team responsible for implementing the European Social Survey in Portugal since 2002.
She is an expert on subjects such as gender, family, marriage, divorce, work/family relations, the protection of children and young people, moral and sexual harassment and has set up several Master’s and postgraduate courses in these areas. Her research has served as the basis for legislative changes, such as the amendment to the divorce law or the changes relating to moral and sexual harassment.

She has been part of several international research networks under Framework Programmes 6, 7 and the European Commission's Horizon 2020. She was President of the Portuguese Sociological Association (2002-2006) and the European Sociological Association (2009-2011). She was on the European Research Council’s Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour evaluation panel and has held a number of positions in the International Sociological Association. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Higher Education Assessment and Accreditation Agency (A3ES) since 2020.

Last updated: May 2023

Professora convidada, de Filosofia, Política e Economia (PPE) na Universidade católica Portuguesa. Licenciada em Direito pela Universidade Católica, tem um Mestrado em Relações Internacionais da Universidade de San Diego e um Doutoramento em Government (Governança e Políticas Públicas), com distinção, na Universidade de Georgetown. É investigadora FCT na Nova Information Management School e coordenadora do projeto “Governance Models and the Delivery of Public Services: Political Influence and Corporate Performance”. Os seus principais interesses de investigação situam-se nas áreas das Instituições Públicas e Governação na Sociedade Digital; Serviços Públicos baseados em TIC; e-Governação; Inovação no Setor Público; Inclusão Digital; Integridade e Transparência Públicas; Estratégias Coletivas de Desenvolvimento Industrial em Setores de Pequenas Empresas.Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at the Catholic University of Portugal. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Catholic University, a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of San Diego and a PhD in Government (Governance and Public Policy), with distinction, from Georgetown University. She is an FCT researcher at Nova Information Management School and coordinator of the "Governance Models and the Delivery of Public Services: Political Influence and Corporate Performance" project. Her main research interests are in the areas of Public Institutions and Governance in the Digital Society; ICT-based Public Services; e-Governance; Innovation in the Public Sector; Digital Inclusion; Public Integrity and Transparency; Collective Industrial Development Strategies in Small Business Sectors.

She has a Bachelor's degree in Criminology from the University of Porto and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Beira Interior.

Associate Professor and President of the Pedagogical Council of the Nova School of Business and Economics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has published research in academic journals such as the «Journal of International Economics», the «Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control», the «European Economic Review and the Economics of Education Review». She is the coordinator of the project «Determinants of school effectiveness: learning from the microdata of the Portuguese education system» with FCT funding under the 2014 call for scientific research projects. Previously, she had also coordinated the project «Efficiency of the education system and the evaluation and accountability system», also funded by the FCT.
She has a degree and PhD in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

With a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Bath (United Kingdom), he is currently an Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at ISEG, Superior Institute of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon and the Coordinator of ISEG's Policy Lab.
Previously, he worked as a researcher at Trinity College Dublin and Oslo Metropolitan University. Currently, he sits on the Board of ESPANET - European Social Policy Network.
He has written extensively on Social Policy related topics from the activation of minimum income beneficiaries to the impact of demographic ageing on the sustainability of pension systems. More recently, his research has focused on the social policy responses to COVID-19 and the inflationary crisis that followed. His work has been published in leading international scientific journals – including Social Policy & Administration, European Journal of Social Security, Journal of Population Aging and European Journal of Ageing - and with renowned publishers (Oxford University Press, Edward Elgar or Policy Press).
At the national level, Amílcar coordinated a study on the “Sustainability of the Portuguese Pension System” for the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, and was part of the recent Commission for the Sustainability of Social Security.



Last updated: September 2025

Geographer, PhD in human geography and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), where he works on the integrated master's and PhD courses.
He is also a researcher at FAUP's Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU). He has published extensively, including «Transgenic Landscapes» (Landscape Museum 2021), «Tour of Portugal» (Contraponto, Lisbon, 2017), «Common Home Territory» (with N. Travasso, FAUP, Porto, 2015), «The Street of the Road» (Dafne, Porto, 2010), «Country Life» (Dafne, Porto, 2012) and «Urban Policies I and II» (with N. Portas and J. Cabral, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2003 and 2011) and «City and Democracy» (Argumentum, Lisbon, 2006). He writes regularly for the newspaper «Público».
He has a PhD in Human Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.

Last updated: September 2022