Politics

Researcher at the GOVCOPP-UA Research Unit and guest lecturer in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences. She has a PhD in Applied Environmental Sciences and focuses her research on the role of sustainability indicators for governance and local development...

Last updated: March 2022

He is a researcher at LSE Cities, the London School of Economics' international centre for research and dissemination on urbanism. He is also coordinator of the New Urban Governance project, which aims to study multiple aspects of municipal planning and management.
He has a PhD in Engineering and Management from Instituto Superior Técnico and a Master's degree in Civil Engineering. He has published articles on local government, transparency and sustainability indices, the management and provision of urban services and public-private partnerships.
As a consultant, he has frequently worked with Transparency International (TI) and was one of the experts who coordinated the working group on urban management and institutional development at the United Nations Summit on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III).
Among other projects, he was responsible for developing indicators for evaluating local governments, including the municipal transparency index.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of Urban Affairs Review.

Last updated: June 2017

Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro and at the GOVCOPP-UA Research Unit. He has a PhD in Public Administration from the University of Lisbon and conducts research in the fields of Networked Governance, Public Policy Processes, Public Sector Reforms and Local Innovation.

PhD candidate in Political Science at the European University Institute in Florence. With a background in International Relations, he completed his Master’s degree in Political Science at the University of Aveiro, focusing on issues of electoral competition and the success of new parties.

She has a Bachelor's degree in Criminology from the University of Porto and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Beira Interior.

A political scientist with a PhD in Comparative Politics from the University of Lisbon, she studies how political institutions and citizens interact in the new digital age. Her research interests include the relationship between parliaments and citizens, political parties, political attitudes and behaviour and the quality of democracy. She is an assistant researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences and currently a FLAD visiting professor at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Her work has been published in several academic journals, such as «Policy & Internet», «Party Politics» and the «Journal of Legislative Studies».

Last updated: September 2023

He was a research fellow at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations and has a Master's degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Last updated: November 2023

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

Associate Professor at Católica Porto Business School, Catholic University of Portugal – Porto Regional Centre. Executive Director of the Centre for Management Studies and Applied Economics (CEGEA). His research interests include Industrial Economics, Competition and Regulation and Economic Analysis of Law.

Last updated: March 2022