Associate professor in the Sociology Department at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte).
He is Director of the Inequalities Observatory and Scientific Coordinator of CoLABOR. As an author or organiser, he has published around 30 books, regularly writes articles in national and international journals and has received several scientific awards. His projects and research focus on social and territorial inequalities, job insecurity, unemployment, the welfare state, public policies, spatial mobility and social capital.
Former Full Professor at the National School of Public Health at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is a member of the National Public Health Council and the Advisory Council for the National Health Plan, as well as both the Board of Directors and the General Council of the Foundation for Health – SNS.
He was Director-General of Health between 1997 and 1999 and a doctor and health delegate in Bárue (Mozambique). He has also lived in Copenhagen, where he was Director for Health Policies and Services of the European Region of the World Health Organisation.
He has won countless distinctions, including the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service in 2006 from the Portuguese Ministry of Health and the National Health Award in 2019.
Graduated in Marine Biology from Lisbon Classic University, in 1986, with executive education at IMD (1995) and Harvard (1997), and Alumni Member of Stanford (2000). Executive President of Sociedade Francisco Manuel dos Santos B.V., the main shareholder of Jerónimo Martins, SGPS, S.A., since its establishment in 2012. Member of the Board of Directors of Jerónimo Martins SGPS, S.A. from 1995 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2015. He is a Non-Executive Director of the Company since April 2019. Chairman of Unilever Fima, Lda., Gallo Worldwide, Lda., JMDB Representação e Distribuição de Marcas Lda. and miMed, Cuidados de Saúde S.A. Chairman of Movendo Capital B.V., since 2017. Since May 2020, he is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, of which he was a Board Member from 2009 to 2018. Since September 2015, he is the Chairman of Oceanário de Lisboa, S.A., and, since December 2016, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors of the Oceano Azul Foundation.
He is an architect and historian of architecture and cities, professor at the University of Évora Department of Architecture. He has published books and articles on architecture and national and regional identities, multifamily housing, public architecture and the production, circulation and exchange of architectural knowledge and architectural cultures in bureaucracy (21st and 20th centuries). He coordinated the project «Housing: One Hundred Years of Public Policy in Portugal, 1918-2018».
Film critic, screenwriter, director and manager of the Cinema area for Guimarães 2012 – European Capital of Culture. He is a professor at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School and wrote for Seara Nova and Cinéfilo magazines and the A Luta and Expresso newspapers. He currently works with the Diário de Notícias newspaper.
Manuel António Garcia Braga da Cruz was born in Tadim, Braga in 1946. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (UCP, Braga) and Sociology (Gregorian University, Rome). He got his PhD and went into Political Sociology (ISCTE, Lisbon). He was a researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (1977-2000), where he also directed the Social Analysis magazine (1987-1998). He has been Rector of the Catholic University of Portugal since 2000, where he has been a full professor since 1992. He was the founder and president of the Portuguese Association of Political Science. He is a member of the Portuguese Academy of History, the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, the Real Academia de la Historia de España and the Real Academia de Ciencias Politicas y Morales de Madrid. He is the author of the following works : The Origins of Christian Democracy and Salazarism (1980), Monarchists and Republicans in the Estado Novo (1986), the Party and the State in Salazarism (1988), Sociological Theories. The Founders and the Classics (1989). Political Institutions and Social Processes (1995), The Estado Novo and the Catholic Church (1998), Historical Transitions and Political Reforms in Portugal (1999), Castelo Rodrigo and Santa Maria de Aguiar (2006), Catholic University of Portugal. 40 years in the service of the Church and of Portugal (2009).
