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He writes novels, short stories, plays, films and music. He published «Doctor Sick» (Edições Húmus) in 2021, a collection of short stories. Also in 2021, the Largo School put on his play, «Prophecy of the Beginning of the World», staged by Marcos Barbosa.
He won the Europa-David Mourão-Ferreira Award (Univ. Bari/ IC, 2008) and the DST 2013 Grand Prize for Literature (with the novel «The True Actor»).

Last updated: May 2022

FFMS – He is an essayist, university professor and executive director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He was president of the National Centre for Culture, coordinated the European Year of Cultural Heritage in Portugal and chaired the drafting of the Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Society. He was an independent member of parliament for seven terms, Minister of Education, of the Presidency and Finance and President of the Court of Auditors.

Last updated: January 2020

Público journalist since 1989. She was a correspondent in New York (1995-2000), Culture Editor (2002-2007), editor of P2 (2007-08), executive member of the board (2008-09) and director (2009-16). She is now a main writer and writes two weekly columns, Free Style, about journalism, and Coffee Break, about anything and everything else. She has a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from Nova University Lisbon. She was spokesperson for the UN peace mission in Timor-Leste between 2000 and 2002. She teaches classes in Writing Opinion Texts at IPPS-ISCTE-UL and has written two books: «The Negotiator – Diplomatic Revelations about Timor-Leste», 1997-1999 (Dom Quixote, 2019) and «A Normal Day in the Digital Age – Ethics, Values and Politics» (Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, 2020).

Last updated: May 2022

She has been a journalist since 1998, the year she completed her course in Communication and Media Studies at the University of Minho, before joining the editorial office at the «Publico» newspaper. She started working in the local section, where she wrote about planning and urbanism, then moved to the economy section, where she worked on topics such as public investment and housing policies.
She left the newspaper in 2011 to realise her personal project of a trip around the world as a family – reported weekly on the pages of «Fugas» magazine. She never stopped writing in the «Público», while also working with several national publications (such as «Evasões» and «TimeOut»). She was co-author of the Hotelandia project, where good examples of Portuguese hotels are published, and she returned to writing in the «Público» full-time in 2015. In 2021, she left the newspaper again to devote herself to the journalistic project «Faces of the Village», a platform where the stories of all those who contribute to depopulation not becoming an inexorable trend are published, reporting the inspiring cases of – young and old – people who struggle to reverse it.

She has a PhD in Human Population Genetics, a Master's Degree in Applied Human Genetics and a degree in biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto.
She is Lead Researcher at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S). She studies the evolution of human populations and assesses their susceptibility to complex diseases.
She collaborates with anthropologists, geneticists and international clinicians to continue generating knowledge about the genetic diversity of populations from all continents.

Last updated: October 2023

He is the author of several hugely influential books, such as «The Third Chimpanzee» (1991), «Weapons, Germs and Steel» (1997, winner of the Pulitzer Prize), «Collapse» (2005) and «The World Until Yesterday» 2012). His most recent, «The Third Chimpanzee for Young People: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal», is aimed at coming generations and the future they will build. Blending anthropology, sociology and evolutionary biology, Diamond highlights how we can improve contemporary society by learning from the past. As well as receiving prestigious awards, The New York Times considers his writing to be «one of the most important projects undertaken by an intellectual of our generation».

Last updated: September 2018

She is a journalist at the Público newspaper, where she is editor of the Culture section, and she has also been on the team at the P2 newspaper and 2 magazine. Previously, she was a journalist at the Expresso and coordinated the magazine for that weekly newspaper. She went on two Bachelor’s degree courses, Law and Communication and Media Studies, without, however, finishing either of them.

Last updated: March 2022

Former CEO and member of the Executive Committee and of the Board of Directors of the Foundation, David Lopes holds a college degree in Business Management. He was until September 2014 the President of the international area of Daymon Worldwide (a leading global company in consumers’ brand development) where he was also responsible for managing international joint ventures, business operations development and expansion in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He previously was General Manager at Daymon Portugal for three years, where he led the team that established the hub which became the basis of this North American international business in Europe. He transitioned from this role to serve as CEO of the leading Portugese wholesaler «Recheio Cash & Carry» before rejoining Daymon. His professional career also includes leadership positions in the polish company Biedronka and as member of the Board of Directors of the companies «Parque Expo», «Oceanário de Lisboa» and «Fundação do Gil». He is a founding member of the Portuguese Diaspora Council.

Last updated: april 2020

António Barreto was born in Porto on 30th October, 1942. He lived in Vila Real until he finished secondary school, after which he attended Coimbra Law Faculty. He lived in Switzerland as a political exile from 1963 to 1974, graduating in Sociology in 1968. He worked at the University of Geneva and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development before returning to Portugal in 1974. He worked as a professor at the Social and Human Sciences and Law Faculty at Lisbon's Universidade Nova, as a researcher at Universidade Católica and the Social Sciences Institute of Universidade de Lisboa until 2008. He gained his Doctorate in Sociology in 1985 from the University of Geneva. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly and the Portuguese Parliament, Secretary of State for Foreign Trade, Minister for Trade and Tourism and Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries. He was also the winner of the Montaigne Prize of 2004. He has been a member of the Academia das Ciências since 2008, Chairman of the Board of the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation since 2009 and a columnist for the «Público» newspaper since 1991. His published work includes, «Anatomia de uma Revolução», «Tempo de Mudança», «Sem Emenda», «Tempo de Incerteza», «A Situação Social em Portugal», «1960-1999» and «Anos Difíceis».

D. Manuel Clemente was born in S. Pedro e S. Tiago, Torres Vedras, in 1948. He was nominated Bishop of Porto in 2007. He graduated in History and entered the Olivais Seminary in 1973. In 1979, he graduated in Theology from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and was ordained in the same year. In 1992, he completed a PhD in Historical Theology. Since 1975, he has taught History of the Church at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He has occupied the following positions and ecclesiastical offices: Coadjutor Bishop of the parishes Torres Vedras and Runa in 1980; Vice-Chancellor of the Olivais Seminary from 1989 to 1997; Chancellor of the same Seminary since 1997; Director of the Religious History Study Centre of Universidade Católica Portuguesa; nominated Titulary Bishop of Pinhel and Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarch of Lisbon on 6th November, 1999; Episcopal ordination in 2000; Auxiliary Bishop of Lisbon; President of the EpiscopalCommission of Culture, Cultural Assets and Social Communications, elected in 2005. He is the author of the following works: Portugal e os Portugueses (Lisbon: Assírio e Alvim, 2008); Igreja e Sociedade Portuguesa do Liberalismo à República (Lisbon: Grifo, 2002); A Igreja no Tempo (Lisbon: Grifo, 2000); A Igreja no Tempo. História Breve da Igreja Católica (Lisbon, 1978).