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President of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality since October 2020, after leaving her post as Director-General of the Directorate-General for Employment and Labour Relations (2018-2020).
Between 2010 and 2014, she chaired the Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment.
She completed a postgraduate course in labour law and legislation techniques and a law degree.

Last updated: March 2024

Journalist at the Expresso weekly newspaper.

Last updated: May 2017

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

FFMS – He is an essayist, university professor and executive director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He was president of the National Centre for Culture, coordinated the European Year of Cultural Heritage in Portugal and chaired the drafting of the Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Society. He was an independent member of parliament for seven terms, Minister of Education, of the Presidency and Finance and President of the Court of Auditors.

Last updated: January 2020

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

Professor of Health Economics in the Lancaster University Division of Health Research, UK. She has a PhD in Public Health Economics, a Master's degree in European Social Policy and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. She was Assistant Professor of Health Economics at the National School of Public Health (2001-2014). She worked at the Ministry of Health's Institute for Informatics and Financial Management (now ACSS) in the Management Information Systems Development department between 1995 and 2001, where she was the executive responsible for the Financing System/Classification System in Homogeneous Diagnosis Groups. As a researcher she works mainly in the area of economic evaluation of health technologies, measuring efficiency, equity and quality of life. She is president of the Portuguese Association of Health Economics (APES) and one of the founders of EuHEA – European Association of Health Economics. She was the scientific coordinator of the documentary "Tudo é Nada sem Saúde" for Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: May 2022