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Luís Aguiar-Conraria holds a BA from the University of Coimbra, an MA from the University of Porto, and a PhD from Cornell University.
He is president of the School of Economics and Management of the University of Minho, where he primarily teaches Macroeconomics and Quantitative Methods, and has also held various leadership positions.
Luís Aguiar-Conraria is the author of dozens of scientific articles, one book, and the co-author of two others.
His research covers economic cycles, political economy, wavelet applications in economics, among other subjects, and in 2011, he received the Gulbenkian Award for the Internationalisation of Social Sciences.

Last updated: january 2024

Isabel Horta Correia is currently a professor at the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics at UCP. She developed her research career for almost 30 years at the Economic Studies Department of the Banco de Portugal, which she directed for 5 years.
Her general area of interest is Macroeconomics, namely in the subareas of economic cycles, monetary economics, optimal fiscal and monetary policies, and redistributive impacts of economic policy.
Isabel’s work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the European Economic Review.
She was a research reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a member of the evaluation panels for the European Research Council's Advanced Grants. She was also a member of the European Economic Association Council; of the Portuguese Catholic University’s Scientific Society; of the Scientific Advisory Board of CREI – Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional, and of the European University Institute's Research Council.
She is currently a correspondent for the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research and the European Economic Association.

Last updated: October 2023

He was born in Lleida in 1972. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Barcelona and a postgraduate degree in International Marketing from INSEAD Business School. He has 20 years' experience in market intelligence, both professionally and in the teaching field. He has been the Managing Partner of PRM since 2015.

Last updated: November 2021

Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Statistics Portugal).

Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos

Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University Lisbon (FCSH/UNL), she has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in Demography. She was director of PORDATA – Database of Contemporary Portugal, a project of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, where she also coordinated the scientific area of Population. She has held management positions in various public bodies in the Ministries of Education and Science, Technology and Higher Education. She is a member of the Statistical Council and a member of the Executive Board of the European Statistical Advisory Committee. She is the author and coordinator of numerous published studies on Portuguese society, including "Portugal and Europe: the numbers", "Ageing of Portuguese Society", "Immigrant contributions to Portuguese demography: the role of foreign nationality populations" and "Being born in Portugal" (multimedia work), among others.

Last updated: February 2019

Journalist, television newsreader and Deputy Director of RTP. With a degree in sociology, he began his professional career in 1989 at Rádio Comercial and worked for Antena 1 and TSF, before moving to television two years later. He became an anchor at RTP and presented various news programmes. He moved to SIC between 2000 and 2001 before returning to RTP, where he became Deputy Director of Information and Deputy Director of RTPN. He spent half a year heading up information for the new Channel 11 before once more returning to RTP.

Last updated: May 2022

He holds a PhD in sociology, specialising in the sociology of education, culture and communication, from ISCTE-IUL, Portugal (2006). He is currently Postgraduate Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He is also Coordinator of the LIFE research group – Life Paths, Inequalities and Solidarities, and Vice-Coordinator of the Permanent Youth Observatory. As well as publishing regularly in national and international scientific journals on youth issues, he is the author/editor of books such as Millennial Generation? A Social and Political Portrait (2017), Researching Young People: Methodological Paths and Challenges (2017) and Youth(s) From the Local to the National – What Intervention? (2019). His most recent research has focused on the conditions enabling the emergence of «new dream professions» within the aspirational and professional integration patterns of younger generations; on how generational categories have gained prominence as symbolic devices for identifying and enunciating social inequalities in the post-crisis conjuncture; and on new and old forms of action and political production by/for and with young people.

Last updated: November 2021

Researcher at CoLABOR – Social Protection/Economy and Solidarity. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL and a Master's degree in Bioethics from the University of Lisbon School of Medicine. She has a postgraduate degree in Sociology of Health and Illness, as well as in Data Analysis in Social Sciences, from ISCTE-IUL. She has advanced training in Applied Project Management from Nova SBE, in Bioethics from the Yale Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioethics and in English Language and Culture from the Oxford Royale Academy.

Last updated: March 2022

Researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Ageing.

Last updated: March 2022