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Professor of Economics at Brown University and co-director and founder of Opportunity Insights. He has dedicated himself to studying the causes and consequences of childhood inequality, as well as policies for improving opportunities for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. His work has been published both in leading academic journals and mainstream media outlets. President Barak Obama quoted him in his 2012 State of the Union address, and he has also contributed to changing US policies at the federal, state and local level.
Most recently, with his team at Opportunity Insights, he published the Economic Tracker, an interactive online tool that provides a real-time view of how covid-19 is affecting the economy in US cities and states. He worked as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy at the White House National Economic Council. He is a research associate at the NBER and co-editor of the American Economic Review.

Last updated: June 2022

Público journalist since 1989. She was a correspondent in New York (1995-2000), Culture Editor (2002-2007), editor of P2 (2007-08), executive member of the board (2008-09) and director (2009-16). She is now a main writer and writes two weekly columns, Free Style, about journalism, and Coffee Break, about anything and everything else. She has a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from Nova University Lisbon. She was spokesperson for the UN peace mission in Timor-Leste between 2000 and 2002. She teaches classes in Writing Opinion Texts at IPPS-ISCTE-UL and has written two books: «The Negotiator – Diplomatic Revelations about Timor-Leste», 1997-1999 (Dom Quixote, 2019) and «A Normal Day in the Digital Age – Ethics, Values and Politics» (Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2020).

Last updated: May 2022

She holds a PhD in Letters from the University of Lisbon, where she is Professor, and a Post-Doctorate in Postcolonial Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She currently teaches at the University of Macau, where she is on special leave, and is Vice-Director of the Portuguese Department at UM's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, where she is Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Literary and Intercultural Studies (Portuguese) and Director of the Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA). She has published research on African literatures, literatures in Portuguese and post-colonial studies.

Last updated: November 2023

Journalist at «Público» since 2017. He has also worked on the newspaper's podcasts. He has a PhD in Communication Sciences.

Last update: june 2022

Professor of Philosophy and Political Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Minho and Researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society at the same institution. He holds a Master's degree in Political Philosophy from the Sorbonne-Paris University and a PhD in Political Philosophy from the Raymond Aron Centre. His research focuses on liberal neutrality and pluralism of values, egalitarian theories of justice, applied ethics and the relationship between art and morality.

Last updated: November 2023