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Founder and CEO of the communications company Empower Sports and presenter on the Eleven Sports channel. He began his career at RTP, later working for CNN (in the US and later as a correspondent in London), Sport TV and UEFA. He has also worked with FIFA and the Portuguese Football Federation.

Last updated: January 2022

Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI) at Nova University Lisbon and invited associate professor at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences, where she teaches Asian Studies and History of International Relations.
She chaired the Portuguese Association of Political Science (2012-2016) and was a consultant to the Board of Directors of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2020-2022).
Author of several articles and books including «The Great Wall and the Legacy of Tiananmen, China and Human Rights» (Tinta-da-China) and «The Portuguese and the World» (Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos). She also wrote the introduction to the new translation of George Orwell's «Nineteen Eighty-Four» (Penguin).
She teamed up with Pedro Vieira for the podcast – [Ir] Relevant Politics, for Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, and the duo currently do the monthly podcast «Eleanor's Friends», for the Luso-American Development Foundation, with stories about extraordinary women, centered on the figure of Eleanor Roosevelt.
She is a resident international policy analyst on SIC Notícias.

Last updated: september 2025

He was born in Barcelona in 1976. He has a Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Barcelona and a Bachelor’s degree in Market Research and Techniques from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He has been on the PRM team for 17 years.

Last updated: November 2021

She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Évora and she has a Master's degree in Statistical Modelling and Data Analysis from the same university. Since February 2016, she has been a researcher at the Vienna Institute of Demography (FWF-projects 28071), as part of the project: "Running against the clock: realising family plans throughout life ". Her area of specialisation is Demography. She is an integrated member of CIDEHUS-UÉ.

Last updated: March 2022

With a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Barcelona, she has worked for over 25 years in market intelligence, an analysis tool for strategic decision-making, both as a consultant and in university teaching.
She is responsible for the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos study, "Women in Portugal today: who they are, what they think and how they feel", an investigation based on surveys of women about their aspirations, personal, family, professional and social life, conducted by a multidisciplinary team, bringing together analysts from the Spanish consultancy firm PRM – Market Intelligence and Portuguese specialists in studies on the female gender. In 2021, Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos launched the study "Young people in Portugal today: who they are, what they think and what they feel", which she was also responsible for. Over the years, she has led projects in various sectors at PRM, from finance to telecommunications, including mass consumption and distribution, and in more than 20 countries in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. She was born in Barcelona.

Last updated: May 2022

A philosopher and essayist, he first studied mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, then moved to France, where he graduated in philosophy at the Sorbonne University. After obtaining a master's degree and a doctorate in the same field, he became Coordinator of the Psychoanalysis and Philosophy department at the University of Paris VIII, while also working as a scientific translator for the OECD.
In 1976, he returned to Portugal to take up the post of assistant to the Secretary of State for Higher Education and Scientific Research. After several years of teaching in secondary schools, he was invited to teach at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He left in 2010, remaining at the university as a Lead Researcher.
He directed the publisher Relógio D'Água’s Philosophy Collection and published several articles and scientific essays in national and international magazines and encyclopaedias. His 2004 essay «The Fear of Existing» earned him a position on the French weekly «Le Nouvel Observateur’s» list of the world's 25 great thinkers. He was also awarded the P.E.N. Clube Português Essay Prize (2005) and the Vergílio Ferreira Prize (2012).

Full Professor at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG/ULisboa) and researcher at SOCIUS/CSG at the same institution. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from ISCTE and a PhD in Economic and Organisational Sociology from ISEG.

Born in 1952. Degree in geography, from the Faculty of Letters, UL and a PhD from UL in Human Geography. As a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, he coordinated the «Environment, Territory and Society» Research Group and the ICS-UL Observatories Council.

Assistant professor in the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism at the University of Aveiro and researcher at CIPES (Higher Education Policy Research Centre). He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Porto and a PhD in Business Sciences from Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He works with GOVCOPP – Research Unit in Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies at the University of Aveiro and is an affiliate of the Global Labour Organisation. His research focuses on Labour Economics, Education and Higher Education.

He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Évora, a Master’s degree in Statistical Modelling and Data Analysis from the same university and a Master’s degree in Demography from the University of Lund, European Doctoral School of Demography. His research focuses on the study of the rate of ageing and the preparation of mortality and population forecasts and projections. He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Cultures and Societies at the University of Évora.

Last updated: November 2023