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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.

Last updated: February 2024

She was a Público journalist for about 20 years. She wrote the novel «Terrinhas», which received the Agustina Bessa-Luís Revelation Award in 2021. She has written three non-fiction books, which are on the National Reading Plan: «Crazy things», «Your Father’s Name is not Sergeant» and «Daddy, Were You Afraid?»
She was among the finalists of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Journalism Prize twice (2015 and 2016). She received the King of Spain International Prize for Journalism in 2015, the Gazeta Multimedia Prize (2014), the AMI-Journalism Award against Indifference (2015) and the Orlando Gonçalves Literary Prize (2016).

Last updated: January 2024

He has been a journalist and infographic designer for the “Público” newspaper since 2016. He has been recognised with more than three dozen national and international awards and mentions in infographics.
With a degree in Graphic Design, he has taken part in several world congresses on infographics at the Malofiej workshop in the University of Navarra - Pamplona, Spain.
He studied programming languages at Formabase.
His work focuses on producing infographics for paper and online and creating new digital visual narratives.

Journalist, infographic designer and illustrator for the "Público" newspaper since 2006. He previously worked for the Impala and Cofina Media groups.
He has won more than dozens of national and international awards and mentions in infographics, online infographics, animated infographics and illustration.
He took part in the Malofiej workshop at the University of Navarra - Pamplona, Spain, in 2009, and has been to several world congresses. In Portugal, he completed a workshop in storytelling through infographics at the Instituto Superior de Gestão.
With a background in design, he decided to invest in web design training at LX School (Flag) and, more recently, in programming language at Formabase.
His work focuses on producing infographics for paper and online and creating new digital visual narratives with a large illustrative component.

Last updated: November 2023

She is the coordinator of the National Strategy to Combat Poverty (ENCP) 2021-2030, after almost three decades working for the European Anti-Poverty Network Portugal, where she served as Executive Director.
She has a degree in social work and a post-graduate degree in non-profit organisation management.
She began her technical career in 1992 in the Fight Against Poverty Project in the historic centre of Gaia. In 1994 she joined the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN Portugal) and was part of the GIIF Project (Horizon Community Initiative), working in information and training.

Last updated: September 2023

She has a PhD in Educational Sciences, specialising in Analysis and Organisation of Teaching, from the University of Coimbra. She is the general coordinator of the Education Initiative, a project designed to promote the success of young people by supporting exemplary projects with a potential multiplier effect on the education system.
Between 2015 and 2019, she coordinated the studies team at the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, where, between 2010 and 2015, she was project and content manager in the areas of education, science and economics.

Last update: january 2023