Politics

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

An economist, he teaches at the Catholic University of Portugal School of Economics and Management (Porto). He completed his PhD and Master's degree in Economics at the University of York (UK). His main areas of research are Microeconomics, Auction Theory, Regulation and Competition and it is in these areas that he teaches several undergraduate and Master’s degree courses. He has carried out consultancy work for public and private entities in Portugal and abroad, on a number of topics related to Regulation and Competition in the telecommunications, financial services and health sectors (among others).

Last updated: March 2022

She was a researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences, where she obtained a PhD in Political Sociology and taught political communication and media and politics. She was also a researcher at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University in the UK. With a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and a Master's degree in Social Sciences with the thesis "The Vehicles of Political Communication – A Study of an Electoral Campaign in the Media", she also worked as a journalist and communication consultant before devoting herself to her academic career.
Her work focuses on the impact of the media on democracy. She was recently vice-chair of a European working group set up to analyse the consequences of populist political communication on democratic life in Europe and the changes in communication systems and the media. She is currently working on comparative studies of the media and its influence on democratic and social construction in Europe, Brazil and Africa.

Last updated: March 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