Economy

Visiting Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of NY and Senior Scholar at LIS. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He was Senior Economist in the Research Department of the World Bank for almost 20 years and was Senior Advisor at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2003-2005). He has taught at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and Johns Hopkins University (1997-2007).

Leads the Foundation's Digital & Social Content Management team.
She coordinated the Digital Area and the Fronteiras XXI project, with a monthly debate program in a partnership with RTP, the national Portuguese television.
Graduated in Social and Cultural Communication from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Joana Ferreira da Costa was a journalist between 1997 and 2016. She worked for 11 years at the daily newspaper «Público» writing about Science, Health Policies and Politics, having been a resident's reporter at Parliament. She then worked as a sub-editor at «Diário de Notícias» and at weekly newspaper «Sol».

Last update: march 2023

She is a writer, teacher, literary critic and communicator. She has worked in the dissemination of Books and Literature in the press and on television for 30 years, at dissemination events and writing workshops and tutoring.
Currently, she is editor of «Ler» magazine, she writes literary criticism in the «Sol» newspaper, coordinates and teaches a post-graduate degree in fiction writing at Universidade Lusófona, she is responsible for the communication of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos essays and portraits, part of the communication office of ULS Médio Tejo, coordinates the Dom Luis I Foundation programme of International Writing Residences and is on the Cultural Council of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation.
She is the author of the novel «This Is My Body», translated into seven languages, of the reportage book «The Last Sailors» (FFMS) and of a «Sentimental Dictionary of Adultery».

Last updated: May 2024

He has a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from Nova University Lisbon. He began his career as a journalist at the «Semanario» newspaper, joined the founding team of the business magazine «Exame» and was part of the creative group on «Fortunas» magazine, then «Fortunas & Negócios». He was editor of the «Diário Económico» and the «Jornal de Negócios» and deputy director of «Exame» magazine between 2000 and 2012. He has published several books.

Last updated: November 2023

He was born in Lisbon in 1957. He studied at Pedro Nunes Secondary School, became involved in the student association movement even before 25 April 1974 and began working as a journalist in 1976. He did a Biology course at the University of Lisbon School of Sciences between 1978 and 1984. After spending some time at the weekly A Voz do Povo newspaper, he worked at the weekly Expresso newspaper in the 1980s. He left there in 1989 to found the Público newspaper, where he worked in management for 20 years, 11 of which as director, until October 2009. He continued to work as a freelance columnist and journalist until 2014, when he founded the Observador newspaper, where he is publisher. He has written several books on cultural and environmental heritage and on political topics, he was also a professor in different higher education institutions and currently teaches seminars at the Catholic University Institute of Political Studies. He is married, has two children and lives near the westernmost point in mainland Europe.

Last updated: July 2022

Coordinating Researcher in the Scientific Employment Stimulus programme at the Institute of Social Sciences.
She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute, Florence, where she won the Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis 1995-98. She was Associate Professor at the Institute of Economic Analysis of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research and Affiliate Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. She was Visiting Researcher at the University of California-Berkeley (2011) and Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Germany (2002-08).

last update: September 2022

CEO of Knowman. During the eight years she lived in London, she was a Knowledge Consultant at Headshift, Knowledge Manager in the UK Ministry of Health agencies and Cultural Change Manager at a major financial institution. She conceived the Citizenship 2.0 event, which she has been co-organising since 2010, and is responsible for the platform of the same name (citizenship20.com) which promotes and boosts projects for using social networks and tools as means of civic dialogue and participation. She collaborates regularly with the São Paulo State Government (Brazil) with whom she co-edited the book «We Can Do It – Knowledge Management and Innovation in the Public Sector» (2014). She also coordinates APDSI's Web 2.0 group.

He has been a journalist since 1988 in the fields of the environment, science and data journalism. He is the author of the books "Sobre a Terra", an environmental guide, and "Nós no Mundo", about sustainability.

Last updated: January 2017

He has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Nova School of Economics in Lisbon and was a researcher at the Centre for Studies on the Portuguese Economic Climate at the Catholic University and Nova SBE. He is an economist, blogger, columnist at the «Jornal Económico» and director of the Study Office at the Forum for Competitiveness.

Last updated: January 2024