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A journalist, he has a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the School of Communication and Media Studies and a Master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Lisbon.
He has been writing for the Observador since 2016. In 2017, he won the Dom Manuel Falcão Prize for Journalism, which distinguishes works on religious topics. He was one of the authors of a series of investigative reports on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Portugal, published in 2019 and won several journalism awards, including the Gazeta Multimedia Prize.
He is the author of the book «Rome, We Have a Problem. How the Catholic Church dealt with Two Thousand Years of Sexual Abuse» (Tinta-da-China, 2021).
He was born in Leiria in 1995.

Assistant professor at NOVA FCSH and researcher at IPRI-NOVA. She has a PhD in International Relations (2014) from NOVA FCSH. She was visiting fellow at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Rio de Janeiro) In 2012. Her research focuses on the analysis of foreign policy, Portuguese and Brazilian foreign policy, relations with the European Union and regional powers. She is editor of the magazine «International Relations» at IPRI-NOVA.

Last updated: August 2022

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