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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

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.

Last updated: April 2024

He is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. He was director of the World Bank's Research Development Department and has written for «The New York Times», the «Financial Times, the «Wall Street Journal» and the «Washington Post». He researches the causes and consequences of civil war, problems of democracy in low-income societies rich in natural resources, urbanisation in low-income countries and private investment in African infrastructure. In 2014, he received a knighthood for his services to promoting research and policy change in Africa.

Last updated: January 2024