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).

A data scientist, he has a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Porto. He is currently completing a second Master's degree in Political Science at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE).
His research interests include political economy, the sociology of finance, elections and political representation and data visualisation.

Last updated: November 2023

Broker. He studied at Nova University Lisbon and Princeton University.

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

Founder of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy. Over the years, his research on comparative public policies has been presented at seminars in 25 of the 27 EU member states and translated into 18 languages.

Last updated: March 2022

Lawyer, Professor and Researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where he obtained his doctorate. He taught political science, constitutional law and fundamental rights at undergraduate and master's level, specialising in general administrative law and public procurement.
He was an advisor to the President of the Constitutional Court. He has published several books, including «The Constituent Constitution» (2000), «The Justification of Private Property in a Constitutional Democracy »(2008) and, co-authored with Pedro Múrias, «Same-Sex Marriage: Yes or No?» (2008), as well as several articles, mainly on constitutional law and political philosophy.

Last updated: May 2024