Economy

Professor of Economics and holder of the Ford Chair at MIT. He is also Co-Director of the NBER Labor Studies Programme, the MIT Task Force on Work of the Future and the experimental JPAL Work of the Future Initiative. His research explores the impacts of the technological revolution and globalisation on the labour market, specifically job polarization, demands and skills, income levels and inequalities, and electoral outcomes. He has received several awards for his academic studies – the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Award for Outstanding Contributions to Labor Economics, and the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019 – and also for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. Most recently, Autor received the Heinz 25th Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his contribution to «transforming our perception of how globalisation and the technological revolution are impacting the jobs and wage prospects of American workers.« In 2017, Bloomberg recognised him as one of the 50 people who have defined the world of business on a global scale. And in 2019, the Economist magazine labelled him «The academic voice of the American worker». Later that year, and with (at least) equal justification, he was dubbed the «Twerpy MIT Economist» by John Oliver of Last Week Tonight, in a segment on automation and employment.

Professor of Finance and holder of the Max L. Heine Chair at New York University's Stern School of Business. He was named one of the «25 most promising economists under 45» by the IMF in 2014. He won the Bernácer Prize in 2013 for the best European economist under 40, the Michael Brennan & BlackRock Prize in 2010, the Prize for the Best Young French Economist in 2009 and the Brattle Prize for the best article on Corporate Finance in 2008. He has studied various topics in the fields of macroeconomics and finance: systemic risk and the financial crisis, the dynamics of corporate investment and household debt, innovation and financial regulation and the Eurozone crisis. His latest book «The Great Reversal» (Harvard Press, 2019) focuses on the growing market power of large companies. He serves as Academic Consultant for the Financial Stability Board and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research. He was a Consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a member of the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority of the Banque de France between 2014 and 2019 and Senior Economic Advisor to the French Minister of Finance from 2012-2013.

American economist who won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics. He is also the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he is also a professor at the Hoover Institute and a visiting fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations. He is an adjunct professor at Bocconi University in Milan and an honorary fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford University.
He is a senior advisor to Jasper Ridge Partners and General Atlantic Partners. He co-chairs the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute and was chairman of the Independent Commission on Growth and Development (2006-2010).
He was Dean of Stanford Business School (1990-1999) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University (1984-1990).

Last updated: July 2022

Founder and CEO of the communications company Empower Sports and presenter on the Eleven Sports channel. He began his career at RTP, later working for CNN (in the US and later as a correspondent in London), Sport TV and UEFA. He has also worked with FIFA and the Portuguese Football Federation.

Last updated: January 2022

He holds a PhD in sociology, specialising in the sociology of education, culture and communication, from ISCTE-IUL, Portugal (2006). He is currently Postgraduate Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He is also Coordinator of the LIFE research group – Life Paths, Inequalities and Solidarities, and Vice-Coordinator of the Permanent Youth Observatory. As well as publishing regularly in national and international scientific journals on youth issues, he is the author/editor of books such as Millennial Generation? A Social and Political Portrait (2017), Researching Young People: Methodological Paths and Challenges (2017) and Youth(s) From the Local to the National – What Intervention? (2019). His most recent research has focused on the conditions enabling the emergence of «new dream professions» within the aspirational and professional integration patterns of younger generations; on how generational categories have gained prominence as symbolic devices for identifying and enunciating social inequalities in the post-crisis conjuncture; and on new and old forms of action and political production by/for and with young people.

Last updated: November 2021

Designer specialising in refurbishment, he owns a home refurbishment, architecture and interior design company in Matosinhos.

Last updated: May 2023

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).

Chairman of the Board of SACHE – Solidarity and Friendship, Affordable Housing Co-operative. This cooperative was founded in 1978 in Porto by a group of «friends», some connected to fine arts and architecture, concerned about the lack of quality housing at fair prices for large sectors of the Portuguese population.

Last update: May 2023

He has a PhD in economics and is Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His work addresses urbanism and population, transport infrastructure, pollution and public policy.

Last updated: May 2023

He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Kent and has worked at the European Central Bank and Banco de Portugal. He was a professor at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management and assistant professor at Instituto Superior Técnico.

Last updated: January 2024