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Full professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine and obstetrician and gynaecologist at Santa Maria Hospital. He was the first elected president of the National Council for Ethics in Life Sciences (2009-2015), he is coordinator of three projects on sexual and reproductive health in the European Union (2003-2010) and was elected vice-president of the Bioethics department of the Council of Europe (2018-2019). He has published very widely on bioethics issues.

She was born in Portalegre in 1977. She is a professor at the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities. She was Beaufort visiting scholar at St John's College at the University of Cambridge in 2017. She wrote «The Ordeals of Interpretation» (IUC, 2020), «The Unteaching of Art (in press)», and co-edits the poetry and review website Flower Games. She began researching adoption a few years ago and decided to share what she learned in this book and on the www.adoptareacolher.pt website

She was born in Angola on 10 June 1957. She got her PhD in Law (Constitutional Law) at the University of Lisbon School of Law. She is an ombudswoman and professor at the Nova School of Law in Lisbon, with aggregation in legal and political sciences.
She has devoted her teaching and research career to the areas of constitutional law. She also teaches subjects such as comparative public law, fundamental rights and constitutional justice.
She was a judge in the Constitutional Court between April 2007 and July 2016, an institution of which she was vice-president between October 2012 and July 2016.
A member of several international scientific associations (including the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law and the International Association of Constitutional Law), she has written a number of various works on her area of expertise since 1984.

Last updated: September 2024

She has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in demography, from the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences. She is a coordinating professor at the Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute, where she coordinates the Master’s degree in Social Gerontology and Age.Comm – Interdisciplinary Research Unit – Functional Ageing Communities. She has taken part in national and international projects and published in the areas of regional demography, ageing, migration and health.

Paediatrician, professor of Paediatrics at the Lisbon School of Medicine and advisor to the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. She was president of Infarmed, director of the Paediatrics Department at Hospital de Santa Maria, clinical director at the Lisbon North University Hospital Centre, High Commissioner for Health, president of the National Commission for Maternal Health, Children and Adolescents, president of the College of Paediatrics at the Portuguese Medical Association and part of the Birth Commission and the Working Group for the Child Agenda. She has trained in Neonatology and Management of Health Institutions.

A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.

She has been a doctor since 1985. She has devoted herself to palliative care (CP) for over 25 years. She was president of the Portuguese Palliative Care Association. She is director of the CP Unit at Hospital da Luz-Lisboa, a professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine and the Catholic University. She chairs the Palliative Medicine area at the Portuguese Medical Association. She believes that it has been a privilege to work in this area and has already cared for more than 6,000 patients and their families. She was a member of the Portuguese parliament for 10 years.. She has been a Commander of the Order of Merit since 2004.

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and believes that the Público was her school of journalism. She spent 14 years in the international politics section exploring, Asia in particular. What does a school for migrant children in Beijing have in common with a middle-class family in Tokyo? A writer in Goa looking for their identity in the largest slum in Mumbai? The lowering the Portuguese flag in Macao and a trip through Thai cuisine? Nothing and a lot. For Francisca Gorjão Henriques, all the reports were lessons on how each place is multiple. She believes that these years helped her in the steps that followed. She left the Público newspaper after 20 years to devote herself to the Loaf by Loaf Association, which promotes the integration of refugees from the Middle East. But she did not leave journalism, continuing to work as a freelancer, reporting and doing fixer work.

He has a degree in economics from the ISE, a Master's Degree in Contemporary European Studies and a PhD in Economics from the University of Reading. He was an associate professor at ISEG and worked with the European Commission as Administrator (industrial policy), Deputy Head of Unit (industrial analysis of the textile sector), Head of Unit (employment policy, social protection) and Director (social and employment legislation). He is a consultant on employment, social security and European affairs.