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Director of the Planning and Strategy Department at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation since 2019. Previously, he coordinated and supervised projects related to health, sustainability, human development and social innovation.
With a degree in economics and law, he has also been a consultant and educator at various social intervention and entrepreneurship institutions.

Last updated: February 2024

Clinical psychologist, sexologist and coach.
She works on sexual and relational empowerment as a means of empowering women.

CEO of Movimento Transformers, a Porto-based working to stimulate civic and social participation. It works with children and young people at risk of social exclusion and, more recently, with senior citizens in the Reformers project.

She is a Professor at the Association for the Integrated Development of Matosinhos, which promotes disadvantaged groups’ socio-economic integration.

Last updated: October 2023

Chairman of the DST Group, based in Braga, which works in engineering, construction, waste management and recovery, water, renewable energy management and real estate. The group's mission is to develop sustainable business projects that add value to the community.
DST's annual training plan includes classes in philosophy, rhetoric and art history for all employees during working hours. It also maintains partnerships with vocational schools, through which it has created higher vocational-technical courses, master's degrees and doctorates exclusively for its employees.

Last updated: October 2023

He has been a journalist and infographic designer for the “Público” newspaper since 2016. He has been recognised with more than three dozen national and international awards and mentions in infographics.
With a degree in Graphic Design, he has taken part in several world congresses on infographics at the Malofiej workshop in the University of Navarra - Pamplona, Spain.
He studied programming languages at Formabase.
His work focuses on producing infographics for paper and online and creating new digital visual narratives.

Journalist, infographic designer and illustrator for the "Público" newspaper since 2006. He previously worked for the Impala and Cofina Media groups.
He has won more than dozens of national and international awards and mentions in infographics, online infographics, animated infographics and illustration.
He took part in the Malofiej workshop at the University of Navarra - Pamplona, Spain, in 2009, and has been to several world congresses. In Portugal, he completed a workshop in storytelling through infographics at the Instituto Superior de Gestão.
With a background in design, he decided to invest in web design training at LX School (Flag) and, more recently, in programming language at Formabase.
His work focuses on producing infographics for paper and online and creating new digital visual narratives with a large illustrative component.

Last updated: November 2023

She is the coordinator of the National Strategy to Combat Poverty (ENCP) 2021-2030, after almost three decades working for the European Anti-Poverty Network Portugal, where she served as Executive Director.
She has a degree in social work and a post-graduate degree in non-profit organisation management.
She began her technical career in 1992 in the Fight Against Poverty Project in the historic centre of Gaia. In 1994 she joined the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN Portugal) and was part of the GIIF Project (Horizon Community Initiative), working in information and training.

Last updated: September 2023

She has a degree in psychology from the University of Lisbon's FPCE, studied film studies at Lisbon's ESTC, worked for RTP and, as a director for SIC, attended a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) course in TV Production.
She was a director for SIC from 1992 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2003 she completed the Advanced Programme in Political Journalism at the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2008, she was a documentaries advisor to RTP's Programme Direction. In March 2018, she unanimously received her PhD in contemporary history, specialising in empires, colonialism and post-colonialism, earning a distinction and praise for her work. In 2007, she was awarded the Lusophony Grand Prize for the documentary «The Prodigious Writer», a film about the life of Jorge de Sena, which she wrote and directed. In 2018 she was awarded the Fernando de Sousa prize by the European Commission for her work directing and co-authoring the screenplay for the 6-film documentary series Europa 30, shown on RTP2. In 2021 she premiered the documentary «Visions of Empire» at the DocLisboa festival, which she also directed and wrote.

last update: January 2023

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Studies and a Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems, she worked as a producer of content for radio and television, directed documentaries and wrote fiction scripts. She is a founding member and vice-president of the Circular Economy Portugal association – CEP.