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Coordinator of the Office of Economic, Business and Public Policy Studies (G3E2P) at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto (FEP), where he obtained his PhD in economic growth.
He has taught at the Lusíada University of Porto and was a senior researcher in the research offices of the AEP – Portuguese Business Association (1999-2011; 2013-2023) and the CIP – Confederation of Portuguese Business Confederation (2011-2013).
He has published articles in national and international scientific journals on economic policy, public finance, institutions, the informal economy and natural resources.

Last update: december 2025

Director of the School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto (FEP) and a full professor and founding member and former president of the Observatory of Economics and Fraud Management (OBEGEF).
He is a member of the cef.UP research centre – Centre for Economics and Finance at the University of Porto.
He has published books, book chapters and over 140 articles in international scientific journals on economic growth – the subject of his PhD – and related topics, such as wage inequality, the unobserved economy, institutions and public finance.
He is currently president of the Municipal Assembly of Miranda do Douro.

Last update: december 2025

Rui Araújo is a journalist who occasionally collaborates with «Luzes» magazine (A Coruña) and «FronteraD» (Madrid).
He has also contributed to outlets such as RTP, Expresso, RFI, Le Point, Libération, CBS News and TVI.
He co-founded the magazine «Grande Reportagem».
Rui was the first Portuguese reporter to enter Timor after the Indonesian invasion and has covered conflicts in places such as Bosnia, Rwanda, Libya, Syria and the Central African Republic. He was also the first Portuguese journalist to be admitted to the Nieman Foundation for Journalism (Harvard University).
In 1997, he was a founding member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and has also served as the ombudsman for the newspaper «Público».
He has written non-fiction books on espionage and war, and also co-written two others, including one on the subject of corruption, published in the USA, in addition to four crime novels.
He writes a regular blog about bullfighter José Bento de Araújo, his great-great-great-grandfather, who practised his art in Portugal, Spain, France and Brazil during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Last update: August 2025

Journalist since 1974. First Portuguese correspondent in Peking (1988 – 1990). Freelancer since 2002.
He has a Master’s degree in History and the Philosophy of Science (FCUL).
He is a PhD student in Art History, (NOVA – FCSH).
He is a researcher and communicator on subjects related to horology. A volunteer at the Ephemera Archive, he coordinates its Time and Gastronomy Centres.

Last updated: august 2025

Assistant professor in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Science at the University of Aveiro and researcher at GOVCOPP.
He has a Master’s degree in Planning and Projects in the Urban Environment from the University of Porto and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Aveiro.
He directed the Master’s degree course in Urban and Regional Planning from 2016 to 2020.
He coordinates the Public Policy Planning Laboratory, a research group with Master's degree and PhD students at the University of Aveiro, which won the University of Aveiro Cooperation Prize in 2023.
He has been involved in a number of national and international research projects on participatory land use planning and has promoted several civic movements and initiatives on behalf of cities and citizenship. He has also written a number of national and international publications on the subject of participation and cities.

Last updated: august 2025

Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal in Braga since 2006 and a researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
He has a Master’s degree in Psychology – specialising in Family Psychology, from the Catholic University of Portugal School of Philosophy in Braga.
He has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Porto School of Psychology and Education Sciences.

Last updated: april 2025

He has a Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Évora. He was Director of the Ria Formosa Natural Park and the Marshland Nature Reserve of Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo. He has written three novels and won the LeYa prize for «The Invisible People» (April 2022). Slippery Slopes – Selected Poetry, revisiting twelve poems, is his most recent book.

Last update: january 2025

In addition to being an architect, he is also a freelance journalist.
He was an activist with the Wake Up Lisbon Movement, editor of «DIF» and «Le Cool Lisboa» and journalist for «Coimbra Coolectiva» magazine.
He took second place in the Fundação Casais/CEiiA Prize for «Journalism for Sustainability 2023», received an honourable mention in the «2023 Journalism and Local Power» Prize from the Association of Portuguese Municipalities and an honourable mention for journalism from «Associação Corações com Coroa» in 2024.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Architecture form the Coimbra School of Artistic Technology and a Master's degree in Building Rehabilitation from the University of Coimbra.

Last updated: january 2025