Politics

Using software to promote public debate and encourage voter engagement, she hopes to update modern democracy in Argentina and other countries. Her work focuses on how democracy must be updated for the digital age. A political scientist, she is Director of Net Democracy, a foundation which, she describes, offers «a space where citizens can come together to imagine, design and implement innovations in the political system that broaden the spectrum of democracy.»
She co-founded a political party in Buenos Aires, Argentina, called Net Democracy, or The Net Party, of which she is Executive Director. She also chairs the arteBA Youth Commission. She obtained a degree in Political Science from Torcuato di Tella University and a Master's Degree in Asian Studies in International Politics from Australia's Monash University. Her previous experience as Chief Advisor and Deputy Secretary of Political Affairs for the City of Buenos Aires has provided her with a wealth of knowledge for her current role and preparation for the «Pia Mancini speech».

Born in Porto de Mós, graduated in Economics, auditor at the Portuguese Court of Accounts. He was a member of the Madeira Regional Parliament and a member of the Portuguese Parliament. He was the Secretary of State for Internal Affairs and for Foreign Affairs and the Minister of National Defence, State and Foreign Affairs. At present, he is an international consultant and the non-executive chairman of the board of directors of BANIF and a non-executive member of the board of directors of SDM. He is a guest professor at the Higher Institute for Political and Social Sciences and at the Business School of Lisbon Nova University and a correspondent academician at the International Academy of Culture. He is a Trustee for the Fundação Oriente and a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. He was awarded with the Portuguese decoration Grã Cruz da Ordem de Cristo and with several other decorations conferred by foreign governments.

Last updated: july 2022

He was born in Lisbon in 1975. He has a Bachelor’s degree from the School of Communication and Media Studies, he worked on Canal Q, owned by Produções Fictícias, and is currently a scriptwriter and works on the RTP3 programme Last One Out Turns Off the Light. He is in charge of Communication at Cinema São Jorge and was a Communication Consultant at Booktailors. He works as a freelance illustrator and writes books as if there were no tomorrow.

Pedro Pita Barros is a full professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics, Nova University Lisbon, where he is the BPI | Fundação la Caixa Professor of Health Economics, and a member of the Economic and Social Council (voted Personality of Recognised Merit).
Pedro held the position of Vice-Rector of Nova University Lisbon (2013-2017) and he is a member of the EC Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health (EXPH) (the European Commission, by selection). He was the President of the European Health Economics Association (2013-2016) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Energy Services Regulator (2005-2006). He was also the President of the Portuguese Health Economics Association (1998-2000; 2009-2010), a member of the EC Mission Board for Cancer (the European Commission, by selection) (2019-2020), a member of the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences (2015-2021) and a member of the National Health Council (representing the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities) (2016-2021).
Pedro has been honoured as a Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry (Ordem do Infante D. Henrique) and with a gold medal for Distinguished Services, awarded by the Ministry of Health.
His research work is in the areas of health economics, economic regulation and competition policy. He acts as a consultant for public and private bodies in the same areas.

Last updated: August 2025

Associate Partner, EY-Parthenon Portugal, Ernst & Young, S.A. Leads EY-Parthenon's Government and Public Sector team. He is a visiting professor at the University of Lisbon, where he teaches Macroeconomics and Economic Policy. Throughout his 30 years of professional experience, he has coordinated studies and projects on regional and sector analysis, impact measurement and evaluation, foresight and regional planning, monitoring and follow-up of regional and sector plans and strategies, as well as specific studies on the Portuguese and European economies.

Assistant Professor at Nova University Lisbon. Her research focuses on institutional change in the European Union and coalition governments, subjects on which she has published articles in journals such as the European Journal of Public Policy, West European Politics and Party Politics. She has written "Coalition Government and Party Mandate: How coalition agreements constrain ministerial action" (Routledge, 2012) and "Changing rules of delegation: A contest of Power for comitology" (with A. Héritier, C. Bisschoff and C-F. Bergström, Oxford University Press, 2012). Her article "Explaining the European Parliament's Right to Appoint and Invest the Commission: Interstitial institutional change", published in West European Politics in 2007, was awarded the Vincent Wright Memorial Prize and the Gulbenkian Prize for the Internationalisation of Social Sciences. Among other subjects, she teaches Comparative Political Systems and European Union Institutions.

Last updated: May 2014

President of the European Association of Law & Economics. He is a Professor of Law at George Mason University in the United States and holds the Chair in Research Innovation at Católica Global Law School.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Nova University Lisbon, holds a Master's degree in Economics and Law (LL.M.) from the University of London and a PhD in Economics from the University of York, UK.
He joined the Executive Board of the American Society for Comparative Law (2021-2023), after having chaired the Spanish Association of Law and Economics between 2017 and 2021. He has taught at Texas A&M University (2015-2018), the University of Illinois (2007-2015), Nova University Lisbon (2001-2007) and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (1998-2001).
He was awarded the Julián Marías prize by the government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid in 2010. He has written more than 150 scientific articles published in international journals.
He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos between 2014 and 2016 and has been a member of its Board of Trustees since 2018.

Last updated: January 2024

He is one of the world's most renowned statisticians, having gained prominence for his innovative analyses of political data. During the 2008 presidential elections, he correctly predicted the results of the primaries and the presidential winner in 49 states. In 2012, he repeated the feat for 50 of the 50 states.
He is considered a pioneer of the new field of data journalism with his website FiveThirtyEight. In partnership with ABC News, Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight have contributed to election coverage by continuing to apply statistical probability models to areas such as sports or science.
He is the author of the book «The Signal and The Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction», which made The New York Times best seller list.

Last updated: January 2022

Full professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine and obstetrician and gynaecologist at Santa Maria Hospital. He was the first elected president of the National Council for Ethics in Life Sciences (2009-2015), he is coordinator of three projects on sexual and reproductive health in the European Union (2003-2010) and was elected vice-president of the Bioethics department of the Council of Europe (2018-2019). He has published very widely on bioethics issues.