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She was born in 1982 and did competitive swimming and then the triathlon until 1999, when she went to the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon, where she got a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Design. She was in college when she became a finalist for the Young Creators Prize in Literature. Her first novel came out in 2009 and won the Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho Award. Since then she has published novels, short stories and children's books. She has a PhD in Cultural Studies and also writes for dance and theatre.
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Last updated: September 2023.

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Última atualização: maio 2023

Ricardo Borges de Castro is a European and global affairs analyst with more than 25 years’ experience in international relations, public policies and the strategic perspective. He is a guest columnist at Sábado magazine, a senior adviser at the European Policy Centre (EPC) and a senior non-resident fellow for the strategic perspective at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP).
His areas of interest focus on geopolitics, the international role of the EU and the future of Europe, transatlantic relations and global trends and scenarios.
He was a visiting researcher at the College of Europe from April to December 2024 and associate director and director of the Europe in the World project at the EPC, a think tank based in Brussels.
He was a Member of Cabinet under José Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission, and held positions in the office of the Prime Minister and in the Portuguese parliament.
He has a Master's in Arts (MALD) from the Fletcher School and a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford (St Antony's College).

Last updated: april 2026

She holds a PhD in Public Law and specialises in public law and regulation. She is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority (ERSAR).
She is also assistant professor at the Faculty of Law of NOVA University Lisbon, where she teaches administrative law, administrative procedure, regulation, public procurement law and arbitration in urban planning and public law.
Previously, she served as a lawyer at Linklaters LLP, heading the Public and Regulatory Law department. Her practice focused on public and regulatory law matters involving administrative litigation. Additionally, she has also worked on project implementation, execution and financing, as well as on acquisitions involving companies operating in regulated or environmentally significant sectors.

Last updated: june 2026

She has a degree in psychology from the University of Lisbon's FPCE, studied film studies at Lisbon's ESTC, worked for RTP and, as a director for SIC, attended a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) course in TV Production.
She was a director for SIC from 1992 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2003 she completed the Advanced Programme in Political Journalism at the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2008, she was a documentaries advisor to RTP's Programme Direction. In March 2018, she unanimously received her PhD in contemporary history, specialising in empires, colonialism and post-colonialism, earning a distinction and praise for her work. In 2007, she was awarded the Lusophony Grand Prize for the documentary «The Prodigious Writer», a film about the life of Jorge de Sena, which she wrote and directed. In 2018 she was awarded the Fernando de Sousa prize by the European Commission for her work directing and co-authoring the screenplay for the 6-film documentary series Europa 30, shown on RTP2. In 2021 she premiered the documentary «Visions of Empire» at the DocLisboa festival, which she also directed and wrote.

last update: January 2023

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Studies and a Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems, she worked as a producer of content for radio and television, directed documentaries and wrote fiction scripts. She is a founding member and vice-president of the Circular Economy Portugal association – CEP.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Health System Policies and Management and member of the Scientific Council at Nova National School of Public Health.

He was born in Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia in 1963. He has been a journalist since 1986 and writes and presents several programmes on SIC, TV Cine and RTP. He was deputy director of RTP 3. In addition to television, he works with several newspapers and magazines and is a radio chronicler, having spent much of his career working in the dissemination and analysis of cinema. He was the founder of SIC and he made several documentaries and wrote scripts for television. He works at RTP full time. He is the author of several film books, «Rear Window» and «As If It Were A Novel», as well as biographies of actors such as Charlie Chaplin and Philip Seymor Hoffman.

British writer and historian. He studied Military History and served as an officer before leaving the army to write after five years.
He has published four novels and thirteen non-fiction books. His work is published in 34 foreign languages and has sold over eight and a half million copies. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society.
He was a professor at the University of Cambridge, Birkbeck College and the University of Kent. In 2014, he won the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, presented by the Military Museum and Pritzker Library and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Service to History in 2016. In 2017, he was knighted on the New Year’s Honour List.

Last updated: November 2023

Radio presenter, comedian and television host. He was a member of the Fictional Productions team and co-wrote «Herman Encyclopaedia», «Paradise Films», «The Maria Show» and «The Contemporaries». He was born in Lisbon in 1971.

Last updated: January 2024