Politics

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

Member of the Portuguese Parliament for over ten years.
She chaired the Parliamentary Committee for Parity, Equal Opportunities and Family between 1995 and 1999. Since 1998, she has held the same position in the European Network of Parliamentary Committees for Equal Opportunities.
She has a degree in Social and Political Sciences from ISCSP, where she served as Visiting Assistant Professor. She was also Lecturer at the Portuguese Catholic University.

Last updated: March 2024

She is Associate Professor at ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon, where she obtained her PhD in Economic and Organisational Sociology and coordinated the «Break Even» project (2014-2016), focused on promoting gender equality in companies.
She is currently coordinating the project «Women on Boards: An Integrative Approach», funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES).
She is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Research in Economic and Organisational Sociology, where she coordinates the Organisations, Work, Employment and Gender research line.
She was President of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality in 2010, a body to which she remains attached as a member of the advisory board in her capacity as an expert in women's rights, non-discrimination and citizenship.
She coordinated the European Sociological Association’s research network «Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State» and remains a member of the network's scientific committee. She has served on the board of the European Institute for Gender Equality, the European Union's High-Level Group on Gender Mainstreaming and the Economic and Social Council.

Last updated: February 2019

Physicist and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Aveiro. He leads the «Nanofabrication for Optoelectronic Applications» (NOA) research group at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), where he is also a member of the Energy cluster coordination team.
He is also the Scientific Leader of the «Battery Cluster Portugal» association and Research Director of Vasco da Gama CoLAB.

Last updated: April 2024

He is a principal investigator at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. Over the years, in several countries, from the United States to Israel, as well as England and Brazil, he has devoted himself to the study of nationalism, right-wing and left-wing sociopolitical movements, as well as issues related to political leadership. In 2021, Zúquete organised the «Routledge International Handbook of Charisma».

Last updated: April 2022

Reporter for the Público newspaper since its foundation. He was a correspondent in New York and editor of Pública magazine. For more than 20 years he has been reporting all over the world, in crisis zones, or wherever there is news or a good story. He has covered conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Algeria, Angola, Kashmir, Sudan, Libya and many others, and has won several awards (Gazeta, AMI, ACIDI, Portuguese Press Club, FLAD, Lettre Ulysses, Lorenzo Natali, etc.). He is a professor of journalism at the School of Communication and Media Studies in Lisbon and he wrote the biography of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and four other books. He currently has a blog on reports and gallivanting entitled «Reporter on the Loose».

Last updated: September 2020

Lead Researcher with a degree in sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the «LIFE» research group and directs the journal «Análise Social». Her work focuses on sexualities and citizenship, social inequalities and the intersections between gender positions, in addition to areas such as critical masculinity studies.
She has a PhD from ISCTE and is Visiting Associate Professor in the university’s Department of Sociology. She also teaches on several doctoral programmes at ICS and the University of Lisbon: The Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Sociology and the Doctoral Programme in Gender Studies.
She is a regular member of the European Research Council’s (ERC) evaluation panels.
She has published various academic articles. She is the co-author of two books and author of «The Sexuality of the Portuguese», published by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
He is a professor and researcher at the Catholic University of Portugal IEP, where he completed his Master’s degree and got his PhD with his thesis «Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union: The Choice of the President of the Commission». He has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from ISCSP-ULisboa.
He wrote the book «The Portuguese Electoral System: Chronicle of an Overdue Reform» (2009) and the essay «Elections in the European Union», published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in 2019.

Last updated: April 2024