Politics

Head of Unit at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs.
His career in EU institutions began in 1994, after teaching for several years at the Faculty of Economics in Coimbra, where he completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in economics.
While in Brussels, he worked for the European Central Bank and the European Council, serving as Chief Economist in President Donald Tusk’s cabinet (2015-2019).

Last updated: May 2024

She is an assistant researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences, where she coordinates the FCT project 'TINA', which explores the relationship between economic integration and democratic support. She got her PhD from the University of Zurich in 2018. Her research interests include political behaviour and attitudes, public opinion, research and survey methods, democratic institutions and the quality of democracy. She has been published in scientific journals such as "Electoral Studies", "Research & Politics" and the "Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties". She is president and co-founder of the DemocracyNet association.

Last updated: April 2024

He is a director with an audiovisual degree from ETIC and a Master's Degree in Communication and Multimedia. He founded Contentus in 2018.
Over the years, he has dedicated himself to exploring the world of performing arts, focusing especially on video installations and video mapping.
He has collaborated extensively throughout his career, contributing as an assistant director on programmes such as RTP's «Eléctrico» and Sérgio Godinho's documentary «SG Gigante».

His forays into the documentary world have included projects such as «And After Democracy», «A Life on the Line», «Mare Nostrum», «Horizons», «Avieiros», «Jorge Palma, Live Your Goals» and «More Than a Wave».
For five years, he produced content for various companies, including Rádio Comercial, TSF and M80, as well as contributing to Turismo de Portugal initiatives.
Simultaneously he collaborated with brands such as Samsung, MEO, Oceanário de Lisboa, Millennium, Media Capital, Diário de Notícias, Santa Casa da Misericórdia, the Portuguese Football Federation and the Oceano Azul Foundation.
In music, he has worked with names such as Rui Veloso, Jorge Palma, James, Amor Electro, Luís Represas, Diogo Piçarra and Tara Perdida.

Biomedical engineer who graduated from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).
She completed her master's degree in 2023 at the Institute of Systems and Robotics – a research unit affiliated with IST – with the thesis «Brain-Computer Interfaces Training with Virtual Reality after Bilateral Neuromodulation with rTMS in Chronic Stroke Patients».

Last update: April 2024

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

Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the postgraduate course in demographic studies. She also coordinates the postgraduate and doctoral programmes in population sciences at the same university.
She is a social scientist whose research focuses on the economics of the family, education and social demography.
With a background in economics, she completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and her PhD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex (UK).

Last updated: March 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

Portuguese Ambassador to Moscow since 2021.
In 2019, she became the first woman to head the Directorate-General for Foreign Policy (DGPE), a structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She began her diplomatic career in 1995, having also worked in the embassies of Berlin, Islamabad (Pakistan) and Egypt.

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