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Assistant Secretary of State for Education. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the Catholic University of Portugal (FCSH-UCP) and a Master’s degree in Comparative Politics from the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL). He was a member of the National Education Council (2013-2015).
Co-founder of the magazine "Política Educativa 20/20", in digital format. He has worked with the Forum for Educational Freedom on studies of public education policies. He wrote the Schools for the 21st Century study published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: April 2024

He is a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Goods and Policies, CSIC, Madrid. He holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. His research interests include representation, electoral systems, political parties, parliaments and coalitions.
His work has appeared in academic journals such as «The Journal of Politics», «Comparative Political Studies», «European Journal of Political Research», «Political Behaviour», «Legislative Studies Quarterly», «Party Politics», among many others. He is co-editor of the book «The Politics of Legislative Debates» (Oxford University Press, 2021). He has been a visiting researcher at the University of California and Harvard University.

Last updated: March 2023

Professor of Political Science at ISCTE.
He has carried out research into electoral behaviour and public opinion, as well as electoral systems, the relationship between politics and entertainment, and the effects of the media and campaigns.
He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence.
He has had several articles published in scientific journals and book chapters published by Oxford University Press, Routledge and other publishing houses. He wrote the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos essay «Politics and Entertainment» and co-coordinated, with João Cancela, the «Mechanisms and Impacts of Electoral Abstention» project promoted by the same institution.

Last updated: september 2025

Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos

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Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University Lisbon (FCSH/UNL), she has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in Demography. She was director of PORDATA – Database of Contemporary Portugal, a project of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, where she also coordinated the scientific area of Population. She has held management positions in various public bodies in the Ministries of Education and Science, Technology and Higher Education. She is a member of the Statistical Council and a member of the Executive Board of the European Statistical Advisory Committee. She is the author and coordinator of numerous published studies on Portuguese society, including "Portugal and Europe: the numbers", "Ageing of Portuguese Society", "Immigrant contributions to Portuguese demography: the role of foreign nationality populations" and "Being born in Portugal" (multimedia work), among others.

Last updated: February 2019

Journalist, television newsreader and Deputy Director of RTP. With a degree in sociology, he began his professional career in 1989 at Rádio Comercial and worked for Antena 1 and TSF, before moving to television two years later. He became an anchor at RTP and presented various news programmes. He moved to SIC between 2000 and 2001 before returning to RTP, where he became Deputy Director of Information and Deputy Director of RTPN. He spent half a year heading up information for the new Channel 11 before once more returning to RTP.

Last updated: May 2022

Researcher Coordinator at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He got a PhD in Political Science from Ohio State University in 2003. His research interests include public opinion, elections and the relationship between justice and politics. His work has appeared in academic journals such as the "American Journal of Political Science", "Comparative Political Studies", the "European Journal of Political Research", "Political Research Quarterly", "West European Politics" and "Experimental Economics", to name but a few.

Last updated: March 2023