Politics

Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities (2019). Master's student in Political Science and International Relations, specialising in Political Science, at the same institution.

Last updated: July 2022

Visiting Assistant Professor and PhD candidate in Political Science in the Department of Political Studies at the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities. Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations of Nova University Lisbon.

Last updated: July 2022

He was director-general for External Relations at the European Commission and Durão Barroso’s chief of staff during his first term as president of the European Commission.
He served in various high-profile roles within the European Commission, including EU Ambassador to the US, the UN and the UK. He was the first EU ambassador to London after Brexit.
After retiring, he was invited to teach at Columbia University and at the University of Cambridge.
He published is first book, «The Divorce of Nations - a diplomat’s inside view as the global order collapses», in april 2025.
He is a non-executive member of the board of directors of Jerónimo Martins SGPS. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Oceano Azul Foundation, and a member of the strategic boards of several European think tanks.

Last update: september 2026

British writer and historian. He studied Military History and served as an officer before leaving the army to write after five years.
He has published four novels and thirteen non-fiction books. His work is published in 34 foreign languages and has sold over eight and a half million copies. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society.
He was a professor at the University of Cambridge, Birkbeck College and the University of Kent. In 2014, he won the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, presented by the Military Museum and Pritzker Library and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Service to History in 2016. In 2017, he was knighted on the New Year’s Honour List.

Last updated: November 2023

Radio presenter, comedian and television host. He was a member of the Fictional Productions team and co-wrote «Herman Encyclopaedia», «Paradise Films», «The Maria Show» and «The Contemporaries». He was born in Lisbon in 1971.

Last updated: January 2024

Researcher at CIES-ISCTE and PhD candidate in Political Economy (ISCTE-IUL, ISEG-UL and FEUC). He has a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and International Relations from Nova FCSH and a Master's degree in Economics from Maastricht University.

Last updated: June 2022

João Gaio e Silva is FFMS' Research and Science Communication Manager in the field of Institutions
He is a PhD student in Political Science at the the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and he holds a master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the same institution. He has also completed a postgraduate course in Social Research Methods at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon.
His academic and research work has focused on the areas of democracy, populism and political representation, and he is the author of several published articles and papers.


Last updated: may 2026

Researcher in Political Science at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (ICS) and at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations of Nova University Lisbon (IPRI-Nova).
He holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Political Science and wrote a chapter in the book "Reatar Relações", published in 2012. In 2016, he was awarded the prize for best paper presented at the 8th Congress of the Portuguese Political Science Association.

Last updated: June 2022

He is an associate professor in the Department of Political Studies at the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities and a researcher at IPRI-Nova. His main research interests are political parties, elections, political representation and electoral campaigns, on which he has published several articles in national and international journals.

Last updated: June 2022