Politics

Visual artist and illustrator.
She has a fine arts degree from the School of Arts and Design of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and a Master's Degree in Contemporary Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.

Last updated: March 2024

Co-founder and CEO of Innuos, a digital audio production and playback startup.
She was recognised with the «Digital4Her» award by the European Commission. In 2018, she was named by Forbes as one of Europe's 100 Women Founders to Follow and also one of the three finalists for the João Vasconcelos Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 award.
She has a degree in computer engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and an MBA from INSEAD Singapore and France.

Jurist in the area of gender equality. She is a member of the Scientific Technical Group of the Advisory Board of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG) and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (CIEG) of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
She is the author of several articles on gender equality, an educator and a speaker.
She was Secretary of State for Equality between 2004 and 2005 and President of the Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment (CITE). She represented Portugal on the Board of Directors and the Expert Forum of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).
In 2019, she was awarded the Maria Barroso Prize.

Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI) at NOVA FCSH. Her research interests are related to international relations studies, the history of European integration, Europeanization studies, European funds and Portuguese foreign policy.
She has a PhD in history, a master’s degree in international relations and a degree in political science. She is a member of the European Union Liaison Committee of Historians.

Last updated: March 2024

Rapper, lyricist and columnist, with a degree in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL.
Her discography includes three albums under her own name: «Bad Temper »(2007), «Medusa» (2015) and «Mother-of-Pearl» (2020). She is also the author of two mixtapes, a remix album and two children's books with accompanying music, as well as various other projects.
In 2022, she released her first book «Aquarius», a collection of chronicles, poems and lyrics.
She was a columnist for «Visão» magazine and D«iário de Notícias» and currently writes for the newspaper «Público».

He reports on national politics for the Diário de Notícias newspaper.
He graduated from the Centre for Vocational Training for Journalists and also worked at the LUSA Agency and the Público newspaper.
In 2020, he launched the work «Ana Gomes – Life and the World», which is the result of a long interview with the former MEP and ambassador. He is the author of «Unfinished Revolution, what didn't change on 25 April», one of the books that is part of the FFMS collection of Portraits.

Last updated: January 2024

Visiting assistant professor at the Catholic University of Portugal School of Humanities. He is a researcher at the Centre for Communication and Culture Studies at the same university. His areas of interest include literary journalism, the history of journalism and written reporting.
He has a PhD in Communication Sciences, he worked at the European Commission in Brussels and he was a research fellow at Nova University Lisbon.
He is the author of several publications and the FFMS Portrait «A Library, a Second Home».

Last updated: January 2024

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

President of the European Parliament. In Brussels, she also serves as Head of Delegation for Malta’s Nationalist Party, one of the political forces that make up the European People's Party Group.
She graduated in 2003, the year Malta, where she was born, joined the EU. She is a lawyer, specialising in law and European politics.
She was elected as an MEP for the first time in 2013, becoming the first Maltese woman to win a mandate, which she went on to secure in all subsequent elections (2014 and 2019).
Between 2020 and 2022, Metsola was Vice-President of the European Parliament, during which time she was also responsible for relations with national parliaments and for interreligious and non-confessional dialogue.

Last updated: November 2023

He has been a journalist and infographic designer for the “Público” newspaper since 2016. He has been recognised with more than three dozen national and international awards and mentions in infographics.
With a degree in Graphic Design, he has taken part in several world congresses on infographics at the Malofiej workshop in the University of Navarra - Pamplona, Spain.
He studied programming languages at Formabase.
His work focuses on producing infographics for paper and online and creating new digital visual narratives.