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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 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