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Colin Bryar joined Amazon in 1998 — four years after its founding — and spent the next 12 years as part of Amazon’s senior leadership team as Amazon grew from a domestic (US-only) seller of books to a global, multi-dimensional powerhouse and innovator. For two of his years at Amazon, Colin was chief of staff to Jeff Bezos, AKA «Jeff’s shadow», during which he spent each day attending meetings, traveling with, and discussing business and life with Jeff.
After Amazon, he and his family relocated to Singapore for two years where Colin served as Chief Operating Officer of e-commerce company RedMart, which was subsequently sold to Alibaba.
Colin is co-founder of Working Backwards LLC where he coaches executives at both large and early-stage companies on how to implement the management practices developed at Amazon.

Last update: november 2024

He is a researcher at the University of Lisbon, where he returned after a long career by universities in Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. He was responsible for the creation of the Coa Archaeological Park and its classification as World Heritage, and for the discovery of the «Lapedo Child». He was founder and director of the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology. The humanised image we have of neanderthals today is largely due to the results of the research that he conducted or fostered in deposits in Portugal, Spain and Romania.

Graduated in Communication and Journalism, with a postgraduate degree in Political Advising and Media. On her way to a master's degree in Political Science at ISCTE.
She is FFMS' Content and Portal Manager.

Last updated: may 2026

Born in Lisbon, in 1984. She completed the General Arts Course at Escola António Arroio and studied Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon. She graduated in Journalism at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, with Erasmus at the Institut des Hautes Études des Communications Sociales, in Brussels.
Teresa Mourão-Ferreira began her professional career at Grupo Impresa. She attended the Masters in Marketing at ISEG and joined Unilever FIMA in 2008 as a Marketing Trainee. In 2012, she joined the Marketing and Events team at the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, an area she began coordinating in 2014. In 2016, she took over the Communications Department at the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Society. In October 2023, after completing the Strategic Management Program of the Jerónimo Martins Group at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Kellogg School of Management, she assumed the role of Director General of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last update: october 2023

Explorer, National Geographic Fellow, journalist, award-winning producer and New York Times bestselling author.
He is responsible for discovering the five places in the world – which he calls the blue zones – where people live the longest and healthiest lives. His articles on these regions, published in The New York Times Magazine and National Geographic, have had a huge impact.
The researcher now collaborates with local governments, large employers and insurance companies to create Blue Zones Projects in communities, workplaces and universities.

Last updated: October 2023

The UK's most celebrated experimental physicist. Often labelled a «rock star scientist», his books and television programs about the universe are world-renowned.
He is Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement with Science.
He is part of the team working on the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics).
His ability to communicate science has led him to participate in the Davos and China World Economic Forums, in several TED TALKS, as well as the conferences of his international tour «Universal: Adventures In Space and Time».
He is co-presenter of Radio 4's «The Infinite Monkey Cage», a BBC comedy and science program.
He was awarded the Faraday Prize by the Royal Society for excellence in science communication.

Last updated: September 2023

Astronomer Royal of the UK and member of the House of Lords, Co-Founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, UK.
He was Director of the Cambridge Institute of Astronomy. A former President of the Royal Society, his research has addressed space exploration, high-energy astrophysics and cosmology. He is a pioneer in research into the physical processes that lead to the formation of black holes. He is an award-winning scientist and the author of several books on the cosmos and astrophysics. He lives in Cambridge, UK.

Last updated: November 2023