Politics

Writer. He has written several non-fiction books, including «While We Survive this Fatal Illness», «Humour is No Joke and Who Shall We Burn Today?».
He started out in journalism and worked for outlets such as «Focus» magazine and «Rádio Renascença».
He was also a Culture and Communication researcher at the Catholic University of Portugal.
He wrote the novel «Precious» and won the FITA International Award in the category of Best Chronicle in 2022.

Last update: august 2025

Pedro Camões holds a PhD from the University of South Carolina and is assistant professor in the department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro.
He teaches and researches in the fields of decentralisation and local government, having published around twenty articles in international journals.
His consultancy work includes studies for the Directorate-General for Local Authorities, the Ministry of the Economy of Portugal, the Municipality of Porto and the OECD.
He has also served as an adviser to the Government of Mozambique as part of state decentralisation projects led by the World Bank.

Last updated: June 2025

Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Lisbon School of Agriculture (ISA). She got her PhD in 1993 and is a professor at the same school. She directed the Botanic Garden in Ajuda. She designed the amphitheatre and has been in charge of restoration work at Quinta das Lágrimas since 2004. She is an international member of ICOMOS (UNESCO) on the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes. She founded the Historical Gardens Association in 2002. She is a corresponding member of the Academy of Fine Arts (2016) and was honoured by France with the «Ordre d’Officier des Arts et des Lettres» (2013). She also received a Special Commendation from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Last updated: may 2025

Nonresident fellow in energy and global oil at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He has over 35 years of experience working at the intersections of energy, economics and public policy.
Before joining the Baker Institute, he was the senior U.S. economist at BP. For 12 years, he led the production of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, the world’s longest-running compilation of objective global energy data. He also was responsible for the company’s long- and short-term oil market analysis, and he led the global oil market and transportation sector analyses for the long-term BP Energy Outlook.
Prior to joining BP, he was an analyst and manager at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. He was responsible for assessing the implications for U.S. strategic interests of developments in global oil and other energy markets,
Finley is a senior fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics. He has held leadership roles in the International Association for Energy Economics, the National Association for Business Economics, and the Conference of Business Economics, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and holds graduate degrees from Northwestern University (in economics) and the George Washington University (in finance).

Last update: march 2025

Cátia Mazari Oliveira, known by her stage name ‘A Garota Não’, is a singer and songwriter.
In 2023, she won the Golden Globe for ‘Best Performer’. In the same year, she was honoured by the Portuguese Society of Authors with the ‘Best Popular Music Work’ award for her album ‘2 de Abril’. The following year, this album won the ‘José da Ponte Prize’, awarded by the same organisation.
She has a degree in Communication and Culture from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon.

Last updated: January 2025