Politics

Alexandre Soares dos Santos was born in Porto in 1934 and died in Lisbon in August 2019. He attended the Lisbon Law Faculty and began working as a trainee manager at Unilever N.V. in 1957, having had internships in Germany and Ireland. This was the beginning of an international career at Unilever, which included working as Marketing Director for Unilever Brasil between 1964 and 1968. In 1968, he returned to Portugal to join the Board of Directors of Grupo Jerónimo Martins as Delegate-Director, before taking on the role of Chairman of the Executive Committee, which he held along with the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1996 to 2013. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation until his death.

Graduated in Communication and Journalism, with a postgraduate degree in Political Advising and Media. On her way to a master's degree in Political Science at ISCTE.
She assumed the role of digital content manager at the Foundation in October 2023.

Last updated: october 2023

Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Carlos III University in Madrid, he carries out comparative work on the subjects of politics and culture, cultural change, democracy and democratic practice, the consequences of inequalities and social protest. He directed a CONEX-Marie Curie Fellowship at Carlos III University. He has been a professor and researcher at the University of Notre Dame, an associate professor at Harvard University, as well as a visiting professor at the Juan March Institute (Madrid) and the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He holds a PhD in Sociology from Yale University.

Last updated: March 2023

Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, an official member of St Peter's College and a Fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. He is co-editor of African Affairs and co-director of the African Governance programme at the Oxford Martin School.
He has carried out extensive fieldwork focusing on the international political economy of African states, especially the extractive industries, the financial sector, conflict and post-conflict reconstruction and Afro-Asian relations. He has written several books.

Last updated: March 2023

Assistant Professor of Economic Policy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and affiliated researcher at CESifo. Her main areas of research are public economics and political economy, particularly how institutions shape the motivations of politicians and voters, and therefore economic policy and electoral outcomes.

PhD student at Harvard University, where she is finishing a thesis on the effect of political parties and institutions on the process of representation, comparing the reality in the USA, the UK and mainland Europe. She has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science.

Last updated: March 2023

Researcher at the University of Minho Communication and Society Centre. He has a PhD in History from the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences, with a thesis on the internationalisation of the issue of colonial labour in the post-World War II period. His research interests have been in the fields of international and transnational history and imperial and colonial history. She is currently developing a research project that crosses these disciplinary domains on questions of citizenship and the regime of rights in late Portuguese colonialism.

Last updated: March 2023

Visiting assistant professor in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro. He is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the same university. He holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Porto.

PhD candidate in Comparative Politics at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He has a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Aveiro and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Brasilia. He worked as an economist for almost a decade in public institutions in Brazil. His main research interests are democracies, corruption and public opinion.

He' s the Statistical Data Manager at Pordata-FFMS. He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the Federal University of Viçosa, in Brazil, and a master's and bachelor's degree in Economics from the same institution.
He was an international researcher at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, in Germany, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He has published work on the economics of crime, corruption and incentive mechanisms.

Last Update: March 2024