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He has a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Porto School of Economics. He has carried out research in the areas of Economic Growth and the Economic and Non-Economic Benefits of Education.

Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics (FC-UL) and PhD in Mathematics, specialising in Statistics (FCT-UNL). Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology – UL and researcher at the Business Research Unit – IUL in the area of Multivariate Data Analysis. She was National Project Manager for PISA-OECD and National Research Coordinator for TIMSS and PIRLS (2012 and 2013) and Scientific Coordinator on the aQeduto project.

Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra School of Psychology and Education Sciences, where she has taught since 1987. She holds a PhD in Education Sciences, specialising in Sociology of Education, from the University of Coimbra. She is also a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, working on the Democracy, Justice and Human Rights research topic, and co-coordinator of the Educational Policies and Professional Development Observatory. Her research and teaching interests focus on the sociology of education, educational policies, higher education, comparative education and educational administration and management.

Associate Professor and President of the Pedagogical Council of the Nova School of Business and Economics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has published research in academic journals such as the «Journal of International Economics», the «Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control», the «European Economic Review and the Economics of Education Review». She is the coordinator of the project «Determinants of school effectiveness: learning from the microdata of the Portuguese education system» with FCT funding under the 2014 call for scientific research projects. Previously, she had also coordinated the project «Efficiency of the education system and the evaluation and accountability system», also funded by the FCT.
She has a degree and PhD in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Geographer, PhD in human geography and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), where he works on the integrated master's and PhD courses.
He is also a researcher at FAUP's Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU). He has published extensively, including «Transgenic Landscapes» (Landscape Museum 2021), «Tour of Portugal» (Contraponto, Lisbon, 2017), «Common Home Territory» (with N. Travasso, FAUP, Porto, 2015), «The Street of the Road» (Dafne, Porto, 2010), «Country Life» (Dafne, Porto, 2012) and «Urban Policies I and II» (with N. Portas and J. Cabral, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2003 and 2011) and «City and Democracy» (Argumentum, Lisbon, 2006). He writes regularly for the newspaper «Público».
He has a PhD in Human Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.

Last updated: September 2022

Assistant Secretary of State for Education. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the Catholic University of Portugal (FCSH-UCP) and a Master’s degree in Comparative Politics from the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL). He was a member of the National Education Council (2013-2015).
Co-founder of the magazine "Política Educativa 20/20", in digital format. He has worked with the Forum for Educational Freedom on studies of public education policies. He wrote the Schools for the 21st Century study published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: April 2024

Founder of the European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO) at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI. Professor of Political Science and holder of the Swiss Chair of Federalism and Democracy at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.
He completed his PhD in Political Science (with distinction) at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Before coming to the EUI in 2005, he was Deputy Director of the Centre for Research and Documentation on Direct Democracy (C2D) at the School of Law of the University of Geneva (1999-2005).

Last updated: March 2022

Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos

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Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University Lisbon (FCSH/UNL), she has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in Demography. She was director of PORDATA – Database of Contemporary Portugal, a project of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, where she also coordinated the scientific area of Population. She has held management positions in various public bodies in the Ministries of Education and Science, Technology and Higher Education. She is a member of the Statistical Council and a member of the Executive Board of the European Statistical Advisory Committee. She is the author and coordinator of numerous published studies on Portuguese society, including "Portugal and Europe: the numbers", "Ageing of Portuguese Society", "Immigrant contributions to Portuguese demography: the role of foreign nationality populations" and "Being born in Portugal" (multimedia work), among others.

Last updated: February 2019