Politics

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo is an associate professor of History at the University of Coimbra Centre for the History of Society and Culture. His research interests focus on the global, connected and comparative history of imperialism and of colonialism (19th-20th century).
Miguel publishes regularly in the foremost publishers and journals, both in Portugal and abroad. He recently co-authored «História(s) do Presente» (2020, Tinta-da-China) and coordinated «Os Mundos do (Sub)Desenvolvimento» (2023, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra).
He has a PhD in History from King’s College London.

Last updated: August 2025

Assistant Professor in Political Science at Iscte-IUL and integrated researcher at CIES-Iscte. She was coordinator of the project 'HOPES: Housing Perspectives and Struggles. Futures of housing movements, policies and dynamics in Lisbon and beyond (2018-2022, FCT, PTDC/GES-URB/28826/2017) and is co-chair of the Research Network Social Movements of the Council of European Studies. Her areas of research are social movements, with a special interest in processes of political radicalisation, the role of protest in political change, digital activism, gentrification and movements for the right to housing.

Last updated: March 2023

She has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in Development and Social Change, from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Lisbon.
She is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at NOVA FCSH, where she coordinates the Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems. She is an integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences and has done research work on the subjects of ageing and the related social policies, family and intergenerational relations, as well as health.

Last updated: July 2024

An economist with a master's degree in quantitative methods (Faculty of Economics, University of Porto, FEP-UP), he launched and coordinated the National Statistics Institute's Construction and Housing Price Indicator System. He is Director of Confidencial Imobiliário, where he oversees statistical production. He is a guest expert on several postgraduate real estate courses, including at Lisbon School of Management and Economics (ISEG) and Porto Business School (EGP-PBS). He was an advisor to the President of the Association of Civil Construction and Public Works Industrialists (AICCOPN).

Professor of Political Science at Harvard University and director of the «Transformations of Democracy» research unit at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre in Berlin, Germany. He published the book «How Democracies Die» (Crown, 2018) co-authored with Steve Levitsky, which became a New York Times and Der Spiegel (Germany) bestseller. He is also the author of «Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy», an account of the historical democratisation of Europe, which won the 2018 Woodrow Wilson Prize of the American Political Science Association for the best book on government and international relations, and the 2018 Barrington Moore Prize of the American Sociological Association. His first book, «Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism» (Princeton, 2006), analysed 19th-century state building. More recently, he has been a Fellow and Visiting Professor at the European University Institute (Italy), the Center for Advanced Study (Stanford), the Max Planck Institute (Germany), the University of Munich and the Ecole Normale Supérieure (France).

Last updated: March 2023

Columnist on the New York Times opinion page, host of the award-winning Ezra Klein Show podcast, and author of the bestselling book, «Why We’re Polarized».
Before that, he was the founder, editor-in-chief, and then editor-at-large of Vox,the explanatory news platform, which has won a bevy of awards and now reaches more than 50 million people each month.
He was also a creator and executive producer of its hit Netflix show, «Explained».
Prior to starting Vox, Klein founded and led The Washington Post’s Wonkblog. He is also a columnist for Bloomberg News and a regular contributor/policy analyst for MSNBC.
The Economist named him one of the «Minds of the Moment».

Assistant Professor in the Department of Health System Policies and Management and member of the Scientific Council at Nova National School of Public Health.

Sociologist and assistant researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). She is a member of the LIFE research group - Life Paths, Inequality and Solidarity: Practices and Policies.
She has a degree and PhD in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL and a master's degree in Social Sciences from ICS-ULisboa.

He has a master’s degree in legal and political sciences and a law degree. A professional lawyer with over 15 years’ experience, he has also been a member of Parliament (2011-2013) and Secretary of State for Tourism (2013-2015). Furthermore, he served as vice-president of the CDS-PP (2016-2019). He has been a commentator and columnist for SIC, TSF, Visão, Jornal de Negócios, Diário de Notícias and i.

Last updated: April 2023

Margarida Marques is a Portuguese MEP from the Partido Socialista, part of the Socialists and Democrats group.
She was elected a member of the European Parliament in 2019 and currently serves as vice-chair of the Committee on Budgets and member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and of the Committee on International Trade. Marques was the European Parliament rapporteur on the European Economic Governance Review and Parliament´s co-negotiator on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021-2027.
She was also rapporteur for opinion on the revision of treaties in the ECON Committee and S&D rapporteur for the 2022 annual report on the European Central Bank. Marques is currently member of the European Parliament´s recovery and resilience facility and chair of the Euro area accession countries working groups.
Before her election at the European Parliament, she held political positions as member of the Portuguese Parliament and state secretary for european affairs of the Portuguese government.
She holds an MA degree in educational sciences.