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President of the European Association of Law & Economics. He is a Professor of Law at George Mason University in the United States and holds the Chair in Research Innovation at Católica Global Law School.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Nova University Lisbon, holds a Master's degree in Economics and Law (LL.M.) from the University of London and a PhD in Economics from the University of York, UK.
He joined the Executive Board of the American Society for Comparative Law (2021-2023), after having chaired the Spanish Association of Law and Economics between 2017 and 2021. He has taught at Texas A&M University (2015-2018), the University of Illinois (2007-2015), Nova University Lisbon (2001-2007) and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (1998-2001).
He was awarded the Julián Marías prize by the government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid in 2010. He has written more than 150 scientific articles published in international journals.
He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos between 2014 and 2016 and has been a member of its Board of Trustees since 2018.

Last updated: January 2024

Nuno Crato is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Lisbon, having taught in Lisbon, Azores and the United States. His research work is focused on time series for financial, biological and computational applications. He is a Visiting Scientist at the JRC Centre, in Italy, where he analyses the impact of policy measures based on micro-data. He was the President of the International Symposium on Forecasting (2000), Coordinator and President of the Cemapre Research Centre (2006-2010), President of the Portuguese Mathematical Society (2004-2010) and President (CEO) of the Taguspark -- Science and Technology Park (2010-2011). From 2011 to 2015, he was the Portuguese Minister for Education and Science. A prolific science communicator and intervener in education, he has published books in several languages and countries, including the United Kingdom, Italy and Brazil. For his works, he received prestigious awards from the European Mathematical Society and the European Commission. He was awarded the title of Commander and Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique.

Retired secondary school teacher of Romance languages, Portuguese and French. She coordinated the publication of «I Pass by yet I Stay, like the Universe», with Rui Mario Gonçalves, a book on painting influenced by Pessoa. She also wrote «About Fernando Pessoa – Drama Pessoa’s People and Wanderings in Lisbon» and «Art, the Master of Life». She coordinated the fixing of the text of «Eastern Ethiopia and Stories of Noteworthy Things of the East» by Friar João dos Santos (National Commission for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries, 1999). He has published numerous articles on the teaching of Portuguese in daily and weekly newspapers. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Romance Philology and a Master's degree in Travel Literature.

Last updated: January 2024

(1923-2025) Nobel Prize for Literature 2010, he was one of Latin-American literature’s greatest authors, whose works have been translated into over 20 languages. After graduating with a degree in literature and law from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in 1959 he left for Spain, where he obtained a PhD in Philosophy and Literature from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His commitment to literature bore fruit when his first publication, a collection of short stories published under the title «Los jefes» (The Bosses), was awarded the Leopoldo Arias prize.
In 1964, he returned to Peru before travelling to Havana, where he sat on the jury of the Casa de las Américas Awards and on the editorial board of the «Casa de las Américas» magazine. Later, he worked as a translator for UNESCO in Greece with Julio Cortázar and lived in Europe until 1974, mainly in Paris, London and Barcelona. In 1975, he was appointed a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language and in 1976, he was elected President of the International Pen Club. In 1994, he was appointed a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. In 1981, he returned to Peru, where he directed the television programme The Tower of Babel. In 1987, he emerged as the political leader of the Freedom Movement and, three years later, he ran for President of the Republic for the Frente Democrático-FREDEMO party.
He has been a Visiting Professor or Resident Writer at various universities around the world, such as Queen Mary College and King's College at the University of London, the University of Cambridge, the Scottish Arts Council, Washington State University, Columbia University, the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Florida International University and Harvard University.

Last updated: april 2025

After working for SIC as producer and correspondent, she attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism (New York). Since then, she has dedicated herself to reporting from danger zones: She worked undercover to report on the mujahideen crossing from Syria into Iraq; she camped in the Amazon jungle to cover the dispute between indigenous tribes and miners over the largest diamond mine in South America; and she travelled on the «Train of Death», which carries migrants from Central America to the US, etc. She has received several journalistic awards, as well as an Emmy nomination. She is a correspondent for National Geographic's Explorer series.

A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and a PhD in Chemistry from Oxford University, he has worked in science and in the arts. IST professor of physics and chemistry and associate professor of chemical engineering at Cornell University (USA), he has devoted himself to the thermodynamics of molecular liquids and has taught more than one hundred PhD courses (direct and secondary). In 2011 (International Year of Chemistry), he published «Let There Be Light – A History of Chemistry Through Everything». He founded and directed the first courses in Portugal on the management of the arts at the National Institute of Administration. A cultural critic at the Expresso newspaper, he started the National Photography Collection and has curated more than twenty photography exhibitions in Portugal, Belgium, France, England and the USA.

He is a national Poetry Slam champion and a multi-platinum songwriter, writing to entertain, inspire and challenge listeners. Many of his poetry videos have gone viral, with over 50 million total views. His extraordinary performances include: selling out one of the largest poetry shows in Los Angeles history, being the first spoken word artist to perform with Cirque du Soleil and being featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam by A&E's Look Closer campaign. Organisations such as Google, Facebook, IBM, Nike, Spotify and Shazam have invited him to give motivational workshops on creativity and storytelling.

He has worked in protected areas and nature conservation for more than 30 years, including the planning and management of protected areas and the Natura 2000 network. He has studied the changes in the rural landscape of mainland Portugal in the 20th century and their relationship with the dynamics of biodiversity. He has published the books «Of Time and Landscapes», «The Taste of Sicó» and «Portugal: Rural Landscape».

Last updated: July 2022

Vice-president of the Constitutional Court of Portugal, elected by the judges in April 2023, and professor at Católica School of Law. Judge of the Constitutional Court of Portugal (sworn into office in 2016 for a 9-year term).
He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law.

Last update: december 2023