Politics

Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University. Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy and political theory. Her most recent books include «Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy» (co-editor, 2013), «Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union» (co-editor, 2011), «Democracy in Europe» (2006) – named by the European Parliament as one of the «100 Books on Europe to Remember» in 2015 – and The «Futures of European Capitalism» (2002). Recent honours, awards, scholarships and grants include an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels (ULB), the Belgian Franqui Interuniversity Presidency for foreign academics, a research grant from the European Commission (DG ECFIN) and the HORIZON 2020 grant from the European Commission: (ENLIGHTEN: «European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times: The Role of European Networks» – as Lead Researcher at the Free University of Brussels).

Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea.
The economic and financial crisis that began in 2008 continues to cause friction in the world. The seriousness of the situation is matched by the lack of widespread understanding of current events, as well as their origins. Wolfgang Streeck places the crisis in the context of the long neoliberal transformation of post-war capitalism that began in the 70s. Streeck analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states, governments, voters and capitalist interests, expressed in inflation, public debt and rising private debt.

Last updated: October 2016

She has been Editor of International News and European News programmes at SIC Portugal since 2001. Between 1992 and 1997, she was primarily based in Paris and London, working for a range of organisations including Agence France Presse, le Nouvel Observateur, the BBC and CNN's European Center. From 1997 to 2000, she was a journalist at RTP Portugal. She is currently Editor of the European business programme The Europeans. She has interviewed various political leaders, writers, economists and others, including Manuel Valls, Martin Schulz, Federica Mogherini, Pierre Moscovici, Frans Timmermans, Valdis Dombrovskis, Laurent Juppé, Anne Hidalgo, Jacques Delors, Charif Majdalani, Jean d'Ormesson, Alain Fabius, Vaclav Klaus, Vaclav Havel, Carl Bilt, Manouchehr Mottaki, Bronislaw Geremek, Joschka Fisher, Margot Walstrom, Timothy Garton Ash, Niall Ferguson and Amin Malouf.

Using software to promote public debate and encourage voter engagement, she hopes to update modern democracy in Argentina and other countries. Her work focuses on how democracy must be updated for the digital age. A political scientist, she is Director of Net Democracy, a foundation which, she describes, offers «a space where citizens can come together to imagine, design and implement innovations in the political system that broaden the spectrum of democracy.»
She co-founded a political party in Buenos Aires, Argentina, called Net Democracy, or The Net Party, of which she is Executive Director. She also chairs the arteBA Youth Commission. She obtained a degree in Political Science from Torcuato di Tella University and a Master's Degree in Asian Studies in International Politics from Australia's Monash University. Her previous experience as Chief Advisor and Deputy Secretary of Political Affairs for the City of Buenos Aires has provided her with a wealth of knowledge for her current role and preparation for the «Pia Mancini speech».

A Canadian-born, naturalised American psychologist and linguist, he obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Experimental Psychology at McGill University before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1976, where he has spent most of his career. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1979 and was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at MIT. He then became Assistant Professor at Harvard before returning to MIT a year later. He left MIT in 2003 after accepting a teaching position at Harvard, where he remains a member of the Psychology Department with the title of Johnstone Family Professor. He was also Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Striving to clarify his theses and make them accessible to a general public, he has published books such as «The Language Instinct», «How the Mind Works», «The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature», «The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature» and «The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined». One of this evolutionary psychologist's latest books is entitled «The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century», in which he argues that, despite all the conflicts currently ongoing in today's world, there has never been a better time to be alive. Named «Humanist of the Year» and Honorary President of the Canadian Psychological Association, Foreign Policy magazine included him in its list of the 100 greatest intellectuals in the USA and Time in its list of the Most Influential People in the World Today. He is a regular contributor to various publications, such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Time and The Atlantic. His tenth book, «The Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress», was released in 2018 and has been published in Portugal.

American philosopher and essayist, he is Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University, where he began teaching in 1980. After completing his undergraduate studies, he attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, before attaining his doctorate at Balliol College, Oxford, under the guidance of philosopher Charles Taylor, who was a profound influence on him. In 1980, he accepted an invitation to join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where for decades he was in charge of the «Justice» course. With a total of over 15,000 students enrolled over the years, the course was one of the most widely-attended in Harvard’s history and was even recorded and put online for free access, obtaining millions of views. Included in «Foreign Policy's» list of 100 Global Thinkers, considered by Newsweek to be the «most relevant living philosopher» and an authentic «rock star», and by The New Republic as the «most famous philosophy professor on the planet», Michael Sandel postulates that philosophy should be taught through dialogue and only makes sense in close relation to everyday life, which is why he always tries to incorporate the context in which his discussions take place. His work has been translated into 27 languages and expressed in various books where moral reflection and the deepening of democratic life are irrevocably linked. His most recent bestseller, «What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets», is an invitation to readers to rethink the role that money and markets play in our lives and was named by Foreign Policy as one of the 20 must-read books of the year. He currently continues giving seminars on ethics and biotechnology and teaching the course «Ethics, Economics and the Law».

A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.

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.

Last updated: March 2023

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.

Last updated: January 2024

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.


Last updated: March 2024