Economy

Bosch’s representative in Portugal since 2015, he also manages Bosch Car Multimedia in Braga. He has a degree in global leadership and management (Japan) and from Carnegie Mellon University. His strategic priorities include a permanent commitment to innovation and developing highly technological products, as well as growing Bosch's activities in Portugal.

Last updated: October 2018

Economist specialising in public policy. She combines national, European and international experiences, including academia, applied research and hands-on executive and advisory roles at government level.
She is currently the Head of Sustainability at Banco de Portugal (since 2024) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics. She served as Secretary of State for Energy and the Climate in the Portuguese government (2023-2024) and as Chief-Economist to the Prime Minister (2019-2022). She worked in the Research Department at Banco de Portugal (2018-2019), the Research Offices of the Portuguese Ministries of Finance and of the Economy (2015-2019), the European Central Bank (2008-2014) and Banco de Portugal (2004-2008).
She has a PhD in Economics from Nova SBE (2015), with a dissertation on the political economy of structural reforms. She was a visiting PhD student at the Toulouse School of Economics and the University of Liège in 2012/2013.

She has a PhD in Economics (magna cum laude) and was awarded the MSC prize for the Best Master’s Thesis by the University of Antwerp. She has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from ISEG and a Master’s degree in Transport from Instituto Superior Técnico. Throughout her career, she has worked at AICEP in Buenos Aires, at the Port and Maritime Transport Institute, as Director of TIS in Sao Paulo and as Senior Consultant at Luxmobility. She works as an adjunct professor at the United Business Institutes in Luxembourg.

She is an associate professor in the department of Political Science and Public Policy at ISCTE-IUL, where she coordinates the Master's degree in Political Science, and a researcher at CIES-ISCTE. She has been involved in several research projects related to the themes of democracy, political participation, representation, electoral promises and political decision-making. She has published the results of her research in a number of national and international journals, books and book chapters.

Last updated: May 2022

Minister of State and Finance. He was a member of the Portuguese Parliament and President of the PSD Parliamentary Group between 2022 and 2024.
He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Tilburg (Netherlands), he is an assistant professor with aggregation at the ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management and a visiting professor at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (Rio de Janeiro). He is a researcher at ADVANCE – Research Centre in Management, at the same university.

Last updated: April 2024

He was born in Olhão. He has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and he received the Young Economist Award from the European Economic Association in 2001 and the Latin Union Scientific Merit Award in 2006. He is deputy director of the Economic Studies department in Banco de Portugal. His research area is the labour economy, a subject he has published articles on in several international scientific journals. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and he is on the Roll of Honour at ISEG-UTL, as well as a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the same university. He was on the Committee on the White Paper on Labour Relations in 2007. He teaches at ISEG-UTL and ISEGI-UNL.

Last updated: January 2013

(1936-2018) He joined the army and went to the Army School in 1953. He served in several units of the Armed Forces and did two missions in Africa. He was Commander-in-Chief of Madeira, Director of the Institute for Advanced Military Studies, Chief of the General Staff, head of government and Commander-in-Chief of Cape Verde, Permanent Secretary of the Council of the Revolution, member of the Council of the Revolution and Minister of National Defence. He was a member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and a member of the Scientific Council of the Centre for Security and Defence Research at the Institute for Advanced Military Studies (IESM), the Honour Council at the School of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP) and a member (co-opted) of the General Council of Nova University Lisbon. He has 15 published works on Strategy, Security and Defence, History and International Relations.

Last updated: November 2018

He got his PhD in Economics from the University of Leicester College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities and his Master’s degree in Historical Sociology and Economics from Nova University Lisbon. He was a member of the Portuguese parliament, vice-president of the Committee on Budget, Finance and Administrative Modernisation and member of the Ad Hoc Committee for Strengthening Transparency in the Exercise of Public Duties. He is a visiting researcher at several foreign universities: U. Van Amsterdam (Netherlands), London School of Economics and Leicester University (UK), Turku (Finland) New York and Yale Universities (USA).

Last updated: January 2024

President of the Portuguese Association of Banks and member of the General Council of the Portuguese Institute of Corporate Governance. He is also on the board of the Professional Women Network (PWN) Lisbon.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics, a Master’s degree and a PhD in Philosophy and he is a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Portugal.
He was president of the institute that manages Public Debt, Director General of the Treasury, director of the foreign department at Banco de Portugal and administrator of the Macao Issuer Institute (current Monetary Authority). He was a member of the EU Monetary Committee and played an active role in the tasks of preparing the EMU at national and European level. He is active in civil society and was president of Sedes.
He regularly comments on economic and financial issues. He has written several books.

Last updated: December 2023

He is an emeritus professor at the University of Lisbon School of Sciences. He has devoted himself to teaching and research in theoretical nuclear physics, astrophysics and, since 1987, in environmental sciences, global changes and sustainability, and is currently President of the National Council for Environment and Sustainable Development. His latest book is «Time, Progress, Growth and Technology».

Last updated: May 2021