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French political scientist and academic, as well as Researcher at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). He was Scientific Coordinator of the European network RECWOWE ("Reconciliation, Work and the Welfare State") and is the author of dozens of articles on reforming welfare policies in France and Europe. Director of the Laboratoire Interdisplinaire d'Évaluaton des Politiques Publiques (LIEPP) and Researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), he has also taught at Stockholm University, Harvard University's Center for European Studies and the European University Institute. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), based at the Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (Paris).

Bruno Cardoso Reis holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College and a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities. He was deputy director of the Centre for International Studies at Iscte-IUL, where he teaches and directs the PhD in History and Security and Defence Studies, in partnership with the Military Academy. He was deputy to the Minister of National Defence (2019-2022). He was a guest professor at the Institute of Political Studies at UCP and, in the 2024-25 academic year, he was a FLAD guest professor at Georgetown University in Washington, where he's currently a non-resident researcher. He has published several articles and books, including the essay "Can Portugal have a Strategy?" (2019) published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: september 2025

He has a degree in economics from the ISE, a Master's Degree in Contemporary European Studies and a PhD in Economics from the University of Reading. He was an associate professor at ISEG and worked with the European Commission as Administrator (industrial policy), Deputy Head of Unit (industrial analysis of the textile sector), Head of Unit (employment policy, social protection) and Director (social and employment legislation). He is a consultant on employment, social security and European affairs.

Leads the Foundation's Digital & Social Content Management team.
She coordinated the Digital Area and the Fronteiras XXI project, with a monthly debate program in a partnership with RTP, the national Portuguese television.
Graduated in Social and Cultural Communication from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Joana Ferreira da Costa was a journalist between 1997 and 2016. She worked for 11 years at the daily newspaper «Público» writing about Science, Health Policies and Politics, having been a resident's reporter at Parliament. She then worked as a sub-editor at «Diário de Notícias» and at weekly newspaper «Sol».

Last update: march 2023

She is a writer, teacher, literary critic and communicator. She has worked in the dissemination of Books and Literature in the press and on television for 30 years, at dissemination events and writing workshops and tutoring.
Currently, she is editor of «Ler» magazine, she writes literary criticism in the «Sol» newspaper, coordinates and teaches a post-graduate degree in fiction writing at Universidade Lusófona, she is responsible for the communication of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos essays and portraits, part of the communication office of ULS Médio Tejo, coordinates the Dom Luis I Foundation programme of International Writing Residences and is on the Cultural Council of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation.
She is the author of the novel «This Is My Body», translated into seven languages, of the reportage book «The Last Sailors» (FFMS) and of a «Sentimental Dictionary of Adultery».

Last updated: May 2024

Historian and Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova of Lisbon). Her research has focused on the Estado Novo (Portuguese New State), the World War II period, women and the political police (PIDE) during the Salazar and Caetano dictatorships.
She holds a PhD in Institutional History and Contemporary Politics from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a Master's Degree in Contemporary History (20th century) and a degree in History from the Faculty of Letters of Universidade Clássica de Lisboa.
She was awarded the Pessoa Prize in 2007 and the Seeds of Science Prize in the "Social and Human Sciences" category in 2009. In 2015, she was awarded the National Order of the Legion of Honour by the Government of France.
She is the author and co-author of several books, including From 25 April 1974 to 25 November 1975: Lesser-known Episodes, The Essential about the PIDE, The PIDE’s Informers, Holocaust and Spies in Portugal During World War II.

Last updated: March 2024

A writer and journalist, she currently writes about children's books for LER magazine, an area where she also teaches and does translations. She has a Bachelor's degree and a postgraduate degree in Communication and Media Studies from Nova University Lisbon and a postgraduate degree in Children's Books from the Catholic University of Portugal. Since 2005, he has published eleven books, most of which are recommended by the National Reading Plan.

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Multimedia from the Lusiada University of Lisbon and a Master’s degree in Advertising from IADE. He has been devoted himself to managing educational projects related to statistical literacy through the Pordata Academy since 2010. More recently, he also took up the position of Regional Director at the American Atlantis Project, as well as the management of environmental education projects for Oceanário de Lisboa. He is passionate about travel, which he regularly partakes in.

Last updated: September 2017

She has been a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, ESTM, since 1999. She got her PhD in Sociology and Historical Economics from the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences in Lisbon. Among other books, she published «Gifts and Disciplines of the Female Body» (1997), «The Time of the Servant Girls» (2012), «Óbidos Lagoon: A Guide to the Interpretation of Heritage» (2015) and «Different Views: A Portrait of the Óbidos Lagoon» (2015).

Last updated: February 2017