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Chief Economist at the macroeconomic research firm Talking Heads, which he founded in 2016, where he analyses global macroeconomic issues and financial markets.
Previously, he was Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he led the global economics team. Before joining Morgan Stanley, he was Professor at George Washington University and the State University of New York. He holds a PhD in Economics from George Washington University and a Masters in Finance from the London Business School.

last update: October 2022

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and Researcher at the Centre for Business and Economic Research (CeBER).
Her research focuses on economic growth, human capital, innovation and applied econometrics.
She has participated in projects funded by the European Commission and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
She holds a PhD, a master's and a degree in economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. She is currently Vice-Director of CeBER.

last update: October 2022

She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at NOVA FCSH and Visiting Professor at NOVA Information Management School.
She holds a PhD in history and coordinates three postgraduate courses: Strategic and Security Studies (NOVA and IDN-MDN partnership); Globalization, Diplomacy and Security (NOVA, IDi-MNE and IUM-Armed Forces General Staff-MDN partnership); and Information and Security Management (NOVA, IDN-MDN and SIRP-PCM partnership).
She is a board member of IPRI-NOVA, where she coordinates the Foresight and Strategic Planning area and is also a member of several national and international associations for demographic studies and international relations.

Last updated: October 2022

A writer and journalist specialising in the environment, he has been researching climate change and responsiveness to a rapidly changing environment for ProPublica, an independent investigative journalism newsroom in New York, which collaborates with the New York Times Magazine.
He is a 2022 Emerson Collective Fellow at New America and has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to write his next book on climate migration. He also teaches narrative writing on climate change at the University of California, Berkeley.
His most recent research includes a three-part series on global climate migration, an analysis of the global palm oil trade, the climatic factors behind pandemics and how climate change is evidencing a global water shortage. Another of his series on the causes of water scarcity in the American West, «Killing the Colorado», was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize and received the top honour from the National Academy of Sciences.

Last updated: October 2022

He was born in Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia in 1963. He has been a journalist since 1986 and writes and presents several programmes on SIC, TV Cine and RTP. He was deputy director of RTP 3. In addition to television, he works with several newspapers and magazines and is a radio chronicler, having spent much of his career working in the dissemination and analysis of cinema. He was the founder of SIC and he made several documentaries and wrote scripts for television. He works at RTP full time. He is the author of several film books, «Rear Window» and «As If It Were A Novel», as well as biographies of actors such as Charlie Chaplin and Philip Seymor Hoffman.

He writes novels, short stories, plays, films and music. He published «Doctor Sick» (Edições Húmus) in 2021, a collection of short stories. Also in 2021, the Largo School put on his play, «Prophecy of the Beginning of the World», staged by Marcos Barbosa.
He won the Europa-David Mourão-Ferreira Award (Univ. Bari/ IC, 2008) and the DST 2013 Grand Prize for Literature (with the novel «The True Actor»).

Last updated: May 2022

He has a degree in religious sciences from the Faculty of Theology of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP). He was a member of the Economic and Social Council. He is a member of the Social Council of the Faculty of Economics and Business Science of Universidade Lusíada. He has served as President of Cáritas Portuguesa and is currently President of the Portuguese Volunteer Confederation. He is a member of the Council of Orders of Civil Merit of the Presidency of the Republic.

Last updated: April 2021

Associate professor in the Sociology Department at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte).
He is Director of the Inequalities Observatory and Scientific Coordinator of CoLABOR. As an author or organiser, he has published around 30 books, regularly writes articles in national and international journals and has received several scientific awards. His projects and research focus on social and territorial inequalities, job insecurity, unemployment, the welfare state, public policies, spatial mobility and social capital.

Emeritus Professor of Demography at the University of Oxford and Associate Researcher in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention. He has a degree in zoology and biological anthropology from Queen's College, Oxford, and was a volunteer teacher in Nigeria before completing his PhD at the London School of Economics.

Last updated: November 2023