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She is a journalist at the «Público» newspaper, which she joined in 2009 and where she still works. She was part of the founding team of P3.

Last updated: January 2024

A writer, illustrator, musician and filmmaker, he was born in Figueira da Foz and attended António Arroio School and the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon, before moving to Madeira, where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts.
An award-winning author in several genres, with about 30 books to his credit, he has also worked as an illustrator in dozens of fiction works for children, textbooks, the press and advertising.
In 2006 he co-founded the band The Soaked Lamb, winner of the Portuguese Revelation Band Award at the Cáceres Pop Arte Festival 2011, where he is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer and lyricist.
He has directed more than 200 films, including animation and advertising campaigns, and worked as an animator on several films and series for children. The short film «Two Diaries and a Tile Panel», which he co-directed in 2008, was shown at several international festivals and won two honourable mentions and an audience award. The many distinctions he has received throughout his career, include the Fernando Namora Prize (2015), the European Union Prize for Literature (2012), the 2011 SPA/RTP Authors Award and the National Illustration Award (2014).
He travels extensively and has visited close to 60 countries, but 11 years ago he left Lisbon and moved to the hills in a national agricultural reserve in the Alentejo, where he lives and makes his own beer.

Last updated: May 2019

Composer, sound designer, acoustic communication specialist and professor at the School of Social and Human Sciences (NOVA-FCSH).
He is a founding member of the Portuguese Acoustic Society.
He studied with R. Murray Schafer and Barry Truax and, under the guidance of the latter, completed his Master's Degree in Interactive Hypermedia Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
As a composer and sound designer, his work focuses mainly on theatre, video and interactive technologies.
He has written several plays and musicals. He was a programmer for the music and sound arts area at «Coimbra, National Capital of Culture 2003» and assistant to Constança Capdeville, with whom he collaborated in several works.

Last updated: September 2024

Novelist, essayist and poet.
She did a History course at St Olaf College and got a PhD in English at Columbia University. She has received honorary doctorates from the universities of Oslo and Stendhal-Grenoble and Gutenberg University-Mainz.
Her works have been translated into more than 30 languages, the highlights of these being «The Summer Without Men», «What I Love» and «The Blazing World».

President of Brazil for two terms (between 1995 and 2003).
He has a PhD in Political Sciences and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He is a university professor and writer and was considered by the Library of Congress to be one of the greatest thinkers in the area of political science and sociology in Latin America.
He was in exile during the military dictatorship in Brazil, in Chile in 1964 and then in France, before returning to his country in 1968. He was the founder of the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap). He also taught at Stanford, Cambridge and Paris universities.
He represented São Paulo as a senator for the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) and was one of the founders of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) in 1988. He was a member of the parliament that drafted the Constitution.
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992-1993) and Minister of Finance (1993-1994) in Itamar Franco's government.
He has a PhD Honoris Causa from the University of Coimbra and University of Porto Schools of Economics and from the University of Montreal. He has received the John W. Kluge Award (2012).

Historian and writer, specialising in modern Greece, 20th century Europe and international history. He is a professor of History at Columbia University.
He studied Classical History and Philosophy at Oxford, International Relations at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Centre and has a PhD in Modern History from Oxford (1988).
He published «Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe» (Allen Lane) in 2008, which won the LA Times Book Prize for History the same year.
His most recent book is «What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home» (Other Press, 2017).

She was a researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences, where she obtained a PhD in Political Sociology and taught political communication and media and politics. She was also a researcher at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University in the UK. With a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences and a Master's degree in Social Sciences with the thesis "The Vehicles of Political Communication – A Study of an Electoral Campaign in the Media", she also worked as a journalist and communication consultant before devoting herself to her academic career.
Her work focuses on the impact of the media on democracy. She was recently vice-chair of a European working group set up to analyse the consequences of populist political communication on democratic life in Europe and the changes in communication systems and the media. She is currently working on comparative studies of the media and its influence on democratic and social construction in Europe, Brazil and Africa.

Last updated: March 2023

Nuno Félix da Costa: A psychiatrist, he was a professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine (Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychopathology, Psychophysiology, Neurophysiology, Neuroscience).
He has published more than ten books of prose and poetry since 1995. He is the author of four photo books, the last of which was "Portugal was like this", (Cortex Frontal, 2024).
He has had painting, photography and painting on photography exhibits since 1983 in several dozen solo and collective exhibitions.
He was born in Lisbon in 1950.

Last update: october 2024

Journalist, she is a sub-director at Visão magazine and editor at Exame magazine. Throughout her career, she has covered topics related to business, economics, management, human rights, sustainability and innovation.
In 2020, she won the Grand Prize for Economic Journalism for her work «Money is Green», a report on green finance and environmental challenges. She also received an honourable mention in the Human Rights Journalism Award & Integration for covering human dignity issues in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
She is the author of Girl Talk, in Exame magazine, and the Sambando in Lisbon blog in the Estado de São Paulo newspaper.

Last updated: August 2024

She is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition – Heritage, Arts and Cultures at Nova University Lisbon.
She has a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the same university, she was a researcher at the National Institute of Agrarian Research between 1976 and 2009 and a visiting professor of Food Sociology at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE) from 1996 to 2003.
She coordinated and co-authored the following works: «Food Tradition and Innovation»; «Nature, Gastronomy & Leisure»; «The Mediterranean Algarve»; «Lives and Voices, of the Sea and of Fish»; «Food, Nature and Landscape».

Last updated: April 2024