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Science journalist. He spent most of his career at Público newspaper, as a journalist, editor, editor-in-chief and deputy editor. Between 2010 and 2014, he was multimedia editor at RTP. He became a lecturer at Nova University Lisbon in 2006, coordinating the Master’s degrees in Science Communication and Journalism.

Ricardo Reis earned his Phd from Harvard, in 2004, and is currently a professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and holder of the A.W. Phillips Chair.
His research in Macroeconomics and Finance was awarded the Carl Menger prize in 2022, the Yrjö Jahnsson medal in 2021, and the Bernácer prize in 2016.
Besides being an academic consultant at the Bank of England, the ESM and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, he directs the Centre for Macroeconomics in the UK, and is an advisor for multiple organisations. In Portugal, he writes weekly for the Expresso newspaper.
He currently resides in the city of London.

Last update: april 2025

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

Journalist, television newsreader and Deputy Director of RTP. With a degree in sociology, he began his professional career in 1989 at Rádio Comercial and worked for Antena 1 and TSF, before moving to television two years later. He became an anchor at RTP and presented various news programmes. He moved to SIC between 2000 and 2001 before returning to RTP, where he became Deputy Director of Information and Deputy Director of RTPN. He spent half a year heading up information for the new Channel 11 before once more returning to RTP.

Last updated: May 2022

Researcher Coordinator at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He got a PhD in Political Science from Ohio State University in 2003. His research interests include public opinion, elections and the relationship between justice and politics. His work has appeared in academic journals such as the "American Journal of Political Science", "Comparative Political Studies", the "European Journal of Political Research", "Political Research Quarterly", "West European Politics" and "Experimental Economics", to name but a few.

Last updated: March 2023