Politics

Full Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University and a researcher at the Research Centre for Human Development (CEDH).
He is a (co-opted) member of the National Educational Board.
He was secretary of State for Elementary and Secondary Education in the XII Constitutional Government in 1992/93 and member of the Steering Committee of CERI - Centre for Studies and Research on Innovation in Education, of the OECD.
He was the first Director of the Faculty of Education and Psychology at UCP and Director of the School of Arts.
He is the editor of the Portuguese Journal for Educational Research. He is President of the Board of Directors of the Manuel Leão Foundation. He received his doctorate in Education Sciences from the University of Lisbon in 1999.

Last update: january 2025

Full Professor at ISPA - Instituto Universitário and researcher at the William James Centre for Research, ISPA's research unit dedicated to Psychology.
His main research interests include Psychometric Validation, Structural Equation Analysis, Linear Modelling and Ecophysiology. He is the author of several books and more than 300 articles in the fields of Biological Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Psychometrics and Statistics.
He was an consultant for the World Bank.

Last updated: January 2025

Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship at Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland.
He is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization & Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park. Anil is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy, globalization and entrepreneurship.
Ranked by «Thinkers50» as 'one of the world’s most influential living management thinkers', he has also been named by The Economist as one of the world's «superstars» for research on emerging economies, and inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ «Hall of Fame».
He is one of only three professors, out of over 25000 worldwide, to have been elected a Lifetime Fellow of the three most prestigious academic bodies in his field – Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business. He is the author of several best-selling books including «The Quest for Global Dominance», «Getting China and India Right», and «The Silk Road Rediscovered».
Anil Gupta received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Last update: january 2025

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

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

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

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).