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Coordinating researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences and professor of Political Science at Universidade Lusófona.
He holds a PhD from the European University Institute (1992) and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and Georgetown University, as well as a visiting researcher at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley.
He served as president of the Portuguese Association of Political Science. He recently published «The Essentials of Portuguese Politics».

Last updated: September 2026

Colin Bryar joined Amazon in 1998 — four years after its founding — and spent the next 12 years as part of Amazon’s senior leadership team as Amazon grew from a domestic (US-only) seller of books to a global, multi-dimensional powerhouse and innovator. For two of his years at Amazon, Colin was chief of staff to Jeff Bezos, AKA «Jeff’s shadow», during which he spent each day attending meetings, traveling with, and discussing business and life with Jeff.
After Amazon, he and his family relocated to Singapore for two years where Colin served as Chief Operating Officer of e-commerce company RedMart, which was subsequently sold to Alibaba.
Colin is co-founder of Working Backwards LLC where he coaches executives at both large and early-stage companies on how to implement the management practices developed at Amazon.

Last update: november 2024

He is a researcher at the University of Lisbon, where he returned after a long career by universities in Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. He was responsible for the creation of the Coa Archaeological Park and its classification as World Heritage, and for the discovery of the «Lapedo Child». He was founder and director of the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology. The humanised image we have of neanderthals today is largely due to the results of the research that he conducted or fostered in deposits in Portugal, Spain and Romania.