Politics

President of Brazil for two terms (between 1995 and 2003).
He has a PhD in Political Sciences and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He is a university professor and writer and was considered by the Library of Congress to be one of the greatest thinkers in the area of political science and sociology in Latin America.
He was in exile during the military dictatorship in Brazil, in Chile in 1964 and then in France, before returning to his country in 1968. He was the founder of the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap). He also taught at Stanford, Cambridge and Paris universities.
He represented São Paulo as a senator for the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) and was one of the founders of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) in 1988. He was a member of the parliament that drafted the Constitution.
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992-1993) and Minister of Finance (1993-1994) in Itamar Franco's government.
He has a PhD Honoris Causa from the University of Coimbra and University of Porto Schools of Economics and from the University of Montreal. He has received the John W. Kluge Award (2012).

Researcher at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, where she got her PhD in Law. She specialises in the study of decision-making at European level and inter-institutional relations in the European Union.

Last updated: March 2022

Former Minister of the Economy and university professor for 42 years at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG), Augusto Mateus has studied the country's economic reality and territorial inequalities.
Currently Chairman and Non-Executive Chairman of a consultancy firm he founded in 1998, he has conducted numerous studies on the factors of national growth and development.
As a researcher, he has coordinated and prepared economic analyses of city policy and business strategy for local authorities and public and private entities. The studies carried out by his office have also analysed the potential of what is known as the creative economy and creative culture for the country’s competitiveness, and have created models for evaluating and measuring this impact on regional development.
He held political office twice during the António Guterres governments, first as Secretary of State for Industry (1995-1996) and then as Minister for the Economy (1996-1997).
He has a postgraduate degree in International Economics and Human Resources Economics from the University of Paris X. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Instituto Superior de Ciências Económicas e Financeiras (ISCEF), at Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. He was born in Lisbon in 1950.

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 and is interested in the areas of Political Economy, Macroeconomics and Economic History.

Full Professor at the University of Minho and PhD in Economics from the University of South Carolina, he teaches and researches in the areas of Macroeconomics, Political Economy and Economic Growth. He has published in scientific journals, including the European Economic Review and the Journal of Development Economics, and has coordinated several scientific projects and consultancy studies. He was President
of the European Public Choice Society.