Social Affairs

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 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

Director of Pordata and member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. She holds a PhD in Statistics and Computing and graduated in Mathematics, Luísa Loura is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She was director of the Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics. As a researcher, she published works in the areas of extreme theory, stochastic processes, biostatistics and the teaching of statistics.

Director of publications and member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, António Araújo was born in Lisbon in 1966. He obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in law at the University of Lisbon and holds a PhD in contemporary history from the Catholic University of Portugal. He was a teacher at the Faculty of Law and teaches now at NOVA FCSH. He is adviser to the Constitutional Court, in unpaid leave, and was consultant to the President of the Republic for political affairs. He is the author of several books and articles in political science, constitutional law and contemporary history. He represents FFMS on the Board of the Portuguese Foundation Center.

Journalist, she was born in 1986 and grew up in Sobral de Monte Agraço. She has a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences and a Master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from Nova University Lisbon. She has been working at Sábado magazine since 2008. She also worked with Notícias magazine and the Diário Económico. She did a postgraduate degree in Human Rights at the University of Coimbra in 2016.

She has a PhD in Sociology: Labour relations, social inequalities and trade unionism (FEUC, 2019), a Master's degree in Sociology (ISCTE, 2011) and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology (University of Minho, 1998). She has been an integrated researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-ISCTE since 2013 and has worked with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova.UAçores and CICS.UAc) since 2019. She has addressed topics such as: (un)employment, conflict and collective action; temporary work and collective bargaining; participatory reflection with marginalised groups; (under)valuation of work; poverty and inequalities; gender and immigration.

Last updated: April 2021