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Born in 1947, he graduated in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon and led several Ministries in different governments (Internal Affairs, National Defense and Foreign Affairs). He was Member of Parliament from 1975 to 2011, were he held office as Speaker, consequently becoming a member of the Council of State. Presently, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Lisbon University and of the Strategy Board of the Political Studies Institute of the Lisbon Catholic University. Member of the Supervisory Board of the Military University Institute and of the High Council of the Navy’s Centre for Strategic Studies. He also belongs to the Aspen Ministers Forum. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novo Banco Azores and Chairman of the Supervisory Board for the electronic newspaper Observador. He is Senior Strategic Counsel at Albright Stonebridge Group. He was awarded several Portuguese and foreign decorations. He received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Azores and is Chancellor of the Ancient Portuguese Military Orders.

Last updated: september 2022

Inês Lopes Gonçalves is a radio and television host. On the radio she is currently one of Rádio Renascença's «As Três da Manhã», and on television she hosts the talk show «Traz Pr'á Frente» on RTP and RTP Memória.
She has been one of the faces of the Festival da Canção since 2017. She began her career in information as a journalist at Rádio Renascença, worked for Sport Tv, Canal Q and collaborated with Time Out, Sábado and Expresso magazines.

Última atualização: janeiro de 2022

Director of Pordata and member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. She holds a PhD in Statistics and Computing and graduated in Mathematics, Luísa Loura is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She was director of the Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics. As a researcher, she published works in the areas of extreme theory, stochastic processes, biostatistics and the teaching of statistics.

Director of publications and member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, António Araújo was born in Lisbon in 1966. He obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in law at the University of Lisbon and holds a PhD in contemporary history from the Catholic University of Portugal. He was a teacher at the Faculty of Law and teaches now at NOVA FCSH. He is adviser to the Constitutional Court, in unpaid leave, and was consultant to the President of the Republic for political affairs. He is the author of several books and articles in political science, constitutional law and contemporary history. He represents FFMS on the Board of the Portuguese Foundation Center.

He began his stand-up career with the sketch comedy group Bumerangue in 2013, followed later by Bon Vivant, the solo project that would give its name to his first stand-up comedy show. Since then, he has also been the voice behind the podcast «Who Never?» for Cidade FM, between 2017 and 2019, and toured the country with the show Meta, which sold out venues such as the Tivoli BBVA and Teatro Sá da Bandeira in Porto.
In 2019, he also presented «The Rest of Your Life», a digital documentary combining fiction and reality that relaunched the career of actor João André and obtained over 4 million views on YouTube. This impressive figure served as the tagline for «The Rest of Your Life: The Play».

Last updated: November 2021

Journalist, she was born in 1986 and grew up in Sobral de Monte Agraço. She has a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences and a Master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from Nova University Lisbon. She has been working at Sábado magazine since 2008. She also worked with Notícias magazine and the Diário Económico. She did a postgraduate degree in Human Rights at the University of Coimbra in 2016.

He has a PhD in Economics from Sciences Po Paris. He was Secretary of State for Social Security and Secretary of State for Industry, Commerce and Services. He chaired the Board of Directors of the Institute of Financial and Property Management at the Ministry of Justice and the Assessment Committees of Proposals for Hospitals under Private Public Partnership System in Braga, Cascais, Loures and Vila Franca de Xira. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the INATEL Foundation and professor at the School of Economics and Management.

Last updated: November 2023

He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (Florence) and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Minho School of Economics and Management, a member of the Research Centre for Economic and Business Policies (NIPE) and an external collaborator of the Higher Education Policy Research Centre (CIPES). His main areas of research are labour economics and the evaluation of programmes and public policies. He has published articles in international journals and several books and chapters on these subjects. As a consultant, he has produced several reports aimed at analysing the economic impacts associated with climate change, large-scale projects or events and labour policies on minimum wages, education and employment, both for private and public institutions, such as the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, the Ministry of Economy and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Last updated: October 2021

Gonçalo Saraiva Matias is the Minister Adjunct and for State Reform of the XXV Constitutional Government. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of the Foundation between september 2022 and june 2025.
He was a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal, where he also obtained his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees.
He was director of the Catholic Global School of Law and visiting professor at Washington University. He conducted research at the Georgetown University Law School as a Fulbright visiting scholar. Most of his work falls within Regulatory, Administrative, Constitutional and International Law. He was the director of the Migration Observatory, Secretary of State for the Administrative Modernisation of the XX Constitutional Government. He has been advisor for legal affairs to the President of the Portuguese Republic since 2008. In 2016, he was awarded the title of Grand Officer of the Order of Infante D. Henrique. He was born in Lisbon, in 1979.

Last uptade: june 2025

A geographer and researcher, he is an associate professor at the Centre for Geographical Studies at the University of Lisbon Institute of Territorial Geography, where he teaches.
He has devoted himself to urban social studies and research into international migration, particularly the integration of immigrants, gender relations, housing issues and segregation.
He has a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Lisbon and has published several works in Portugal and abroad. He is the Portuguese correspondent for the OECD's Permanent Observation System on International Migration and a member of the editorial committee of the European Network of Excellence IMISCOE – International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion. He is also Vice-President of the Portuguese Demographic Association and a member of the board of the Centre for Geographical Studies.

Last updated: May 2017