He has a master’s degree in legal and political sciences and a law degree. A professional lawyer with over 15 years’ experience, he has also been a member of Parliament (2011-2013) and Secretary of State for Tourism (2013-2015). Furthermore, he served as vice-president of the CDS-PP (2016-2019). He has been a commentator and columnist for SIC, TSF, Visão, Jornal de Negócios, Diário de Notícias and i.
An economist and the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics, which she received in 2019 for her work in the fight against global poverty.
She holds the Abdul Latif Jameel Chair in Development Economics and Poverty Reduction at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). She is also co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
Her research seeks to understand the economic lives of those living in poverty, in the hope of helping to design and evaluate social policies for reducing inequalities. Her work addresses areas such as health, education, the environment, governance and equal opportunities to access financial services.
She is the co-author of the books «Good Economics for Hard Times» and «Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty».
She was recently appointed President of the Paris School of Economics. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Founder and CEO of the communications company Empower Sports and presenter on the Eleven Sports channel. He began his career at RTP, later working for CNN (in the US and later as a correspondent in London), Sport TV and UEFA. He has also worked with FIFA and the Portuguese Football Federation.
He graduated in social communication from the Catholic University and began his career as a journalist at «Jornal de Letras». He has worked as a scriptwriter since 1998. He was a founding member of «Gato Fedorento» along with Miguel Góis, Zé Diogo Quintela and Tiago Dores. He writes weekly for «Visão» magazine, the Brazilian daily «Folha de S. Paulo» and is one of the members of the TSF/TVI24 programmme «Shadow Government». He is the author and presenter of the SIC programme «This Is Making Fun of People Who Work».
President of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality since October 2020, after leaving her post as Director-General of the Directorate-General for Employment and Labour Relations (2018-2020).
Between 2010 and 2014, she chaired the Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment.
She completed a postgraduate course in labour law and legislation techniques and a law degree.
She is Associate Professor at ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon, where she obtained her PhD in Economic and Organisational Sociology and coordinated the «Break Even» project (2014-2016), focused on promoting gender equality in companies.
She is currently coordinating the project «Women on Boards: An Integrative Approach», funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education (MCTES).
She is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Research in Economic and Organisational Sociology, where she coordinates the Organisations, Work, Employment and Gender research line.
She was President of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality in 2010, a body to which she remains attached as a member of the advisory board in her capacity as an expert in women's rights, non-discrimination and citizenship.
She coordinated the European Sociological Association’s research network «Gender Relations in the Labour Market and the Welfare State» and remains a member of the network's scientific committee. She has served on the board of the European Institute for Gender Equality, the European Union's High-Level Group on Gender Mainstreaming and the Economic and Social Council.
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.
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.
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.
Sociologist and Coordinating Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, she coordinates OBSERVA – Observatory of Environment, Territory and Society. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Programme in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies. Additionally, she is a member of the National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development (CNADS). the European Environment Advisory Council (EEAC) and the Portuguese Council for Health and the Environment (CPSA). She is a regular columnist for the newspapers Expresso and the «Água & Ambiente».
