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He is a consultant specialising in institutional and crisis communication and has worked with several companies, institutions and personalities. Previously, he was the culture editor in the Semanario, Se7e and Independente newspapers.

Last updated: March 2018

Professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Planning at Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Lisbon and researcher at the CICS.NOVA Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on topics such as desertification, climate change and natural disasters. She is a member of the National Commission to Combat Desertification and the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

Last updated: August 2023

She has a PhD in Philosophy, with aggregation in Philosophy, specialising in Ethics, and in Nursing. She was vice-president of the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences in the fifth mandate (2015-2020). She is a coordinating teacher and runs the nursing department at the Setúbal Polytechnic School of Health. She is on the Ethics Committee for Health at the Setúbal Hospital Centre and on the Ethics Council at the University of Minho.

Last updated: June 2020

Director, writer, journalist and well-known storyteller. She has a Bachelor's degree in Cultural and Media Studies and she has worked on the Grande Reportagem TV programme, the Expresso and the Público newspapers and Egoísta magazine. The author of important reports and documentary programmes, she has received several awards for her journalistic work, particularly the UNESCO «Human Rights and Integration» award and four AMI Journalism Against Indifference awards. She published the portrait «Roots» with Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos and directed «Countdown», a documentary, which is now making its début at FFMS Conferences.

Last updated: September 2018

She was born in 1993 and she is a journalist. The newsroom at the «i» newspaper and the «Sol» weekly newspaper was her first home, where she began in 2018, after completing a postgraduate degree in Multiplatform Journalism. She also worked at the «Expresso» and is now in the «Sábado» newsroom.

Last updated: March 2022

He has a PhD in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), an institution where he is a member of the Centre for Economics of Education and where he got his Bachelor's degree and MPhil in Economics. His research focuses on the subjects of Economics of Education and Human Capital, such as: measures of added value for teachers, differentials between internal and external scores, reasons behind the progression in PISA tests and factors of success in higher education.
His work uses comprehensive databases of both the labour market and the Portuguese education system. He was also involved in the impact assessment for different educational projects developed in Portugal. He was a visiting student in the economics department at the University College of London (UCL). He is a visiting assistant at Nova SBE for several Bachelor’s degree and Master's degree courses.

Last updated: August 2023

Winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist, social worker and defender of women's rights.
She was awarded the Nobel Prize for her peaceful contribution to ending the civil wars taking place in Liberia until 2003. She is the founder and current president of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa (GPFA).
She is executive director of the Women, Peace and Security Program at the Earth Institute of Columbia University in New York, USA. She is co-founder and former executive director of the Women Peace and Security Network Africa (WIPSEN-A) and founding member and former coordinator of the Women in Peacebuilding Network in Liberia (WIPNET).
She collaborates with the UN as a member of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) unit and on the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation. She is a member of many organisations, including the World Refugee Council (WRC) and the Network of African Women Leaders for Reproductive Health and Family Planning.

Last updated: April 2022

He is a coordinating researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences and professor of Political Science at Universidade Lusófona. He was a visiting professor at Stanford (1993), Georgetown (2004) and an associate member St Antony's College, Oxford (1995).
He was also Senior Visiting Researcher at Princeton (1996), Berkeley (2000 and 2010) and NYU (2017). He was president of the Portuguese Political Science Association. His research interests include authoritarianism, democratisation and transactional justice, political elites and the comparative study of political change.
His many published works include «Political Institutions and Democracy in Portugal: Assessing the Impact of the Eurocrisis» (Co-org. 2019) and «Technocratic Ministers and Political Leadership in European Democracies» (Co-org. 2018).

Last updated: January 2023

He has worked in consumer policy for about 40 years. In addition to his work, he was an association representative, having served on the Consumer Advisory Committee, in the European Commission and on the board of the European Consumers’ Association. He was the author of television and radio programmes, as well as several works in the specific field of consumption.
He often works with regional press and blogs and does voluntary work with consumer associations as their representative. Since 2006, he has also devoted himself to studies on the Portuguese colony in Guinea and political life in Guinea-Bissau, subjects on which he has published a number of books.


Last updated: January 2023

Born in 1947, he graduated in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon and led several Ministries in different governments (Internal Affairs, National Defense and Foreign Affairs). He was Member of Parliament from 1975 to 2011, were he held office as Speaker, consequently becoming a member of the Council of State. Presently, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of the Lisbon University and of the Strategy Board of the Political Studies Institute of the Lisbon Catholic University. Member of the Supervisory Board of the Military University Institute and of the High Council of the Navy’s Centre for Strategic Studies. He also belongs to the Aspen Ministers Forum. In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novo Banco Azores and Chairman of the Supervisory Board for the electronic newspaper Observador. He is Senior Strategic Counsel at Albright Stonebridge Group. He was awarded several Portuguese and foreign decorations. He received the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of the Azores and is Chancellor of the Ancient Portuguese Military Orders.

Last updated: september 2022