Politics

Full Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University and a researcher at the Research Centre for Human Development (CEDH).
He is a (co-opted) member of the National Educational Board.
He was secretary of State for Elementary and Secondary Education in the XII Constitutional Government in 1992/93 and member of the Steering Committee of CERI - Centre for Studies and Research on Innovation in Education, of the OECD.
He was the first Director of the Faculty of Education and Psychology at UCP and Director of the School of Arts.
He is the editor of the Portuguese Journal for Educational Research. He is President of the Board of Directors of the Manuel Leão Foundation. He received his doctorate in Education Sciences from the University of Lisbon in 1999.

Last update: january 2025

Full Professor at ISPA - Instituto Universitário and researcher at the William James Centre for Research, ISPA's research unit dedicated to Psychology.
His main research interests include Psychometric Validation, Structural Equation Analysis, Linear Modelling and Ecophysiology. He is the author of several books and more than 300 articles in the fields of Biological Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Psychometrics and Statistics.
He was an consultant for the World Bank.

Last updated: January 2025

Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship at Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland.
He is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization & Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland at College Park. Anil is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on strategy, globalization and entrepreneurship.
Ranked by «Thinkers50» as 'one of the world’s most influential living management thinkers', he has also been named by The Economist as one of the world's «superstars» for research on emerging economies, and inducted into the Academy of Management Journals’ «Hall of Fame».
He is one of only three professors, out of over 25000 worldwide, to have been elected a Lifetime Fellow of the three most prestigious academic bodies in his field – Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business. He is the author of several best-selling books including «The Quest for Global Dominance», «Getting China and India Right», and «The Silk Road Rediscovered».
Anil Gupta received his doctorate from the Harvard Business School, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Last update: january 2025

She is a researcher in the area of Political Communication, a professor at the Catholic University of Portugal and coordinator of the PhD in Communication Sciences at the same university. She is also a professor and visiting researcher at several international universities.

International policy commentator at Reuters, a British Army reservist, and executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21).
As a correspondent on political risk and global defence at Reuters, he reported from across the world and was appointed a Reuters columnist in 2016.
He undertook reserve military training with both the British and US armies and more recently as a UK specialist army reservist, providing advice and analysis and serving two tours of duty during the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war.
He is the author of two successful Kindle Singles, «Before Ebola» (2014) and «Churchill in the Trenches» (2015).

Last update: december 2024

Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University. After graduating from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Sciences-Po in Paris, she received her PhD in Political Science from Harvard University in 2008. She is the author of «Hume. Probabilité et Choix Raisonnable» (PUF: 2004) and «Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many» (Princeton University Press, 2013, winner of the 2015 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for best work in democratic/liberal theory published two years earlier). She is co-editor, with Jon Elster, of «Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanism» (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She is currently researching and writing a new book provisionally entitled «After Representation: Rethinking Democracy for the 21st Century». She has published several articles based on subjects such as the consensus on deliberative democracy, the 2010-2013 constitutional process, crowdsourced policymaking in Finland and workplace democracy.

Professor of Political Science at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He has been a Visiting Professor and Fellow at many European academic institutions. His research focuses on the implications of governance transformations for democracy and accountability. His most recent books include «Democracy in Crisis? Politics, Governance and Policy» (Palgrave, 2013) and «Accountability and European Governance» (co-edited with Deirdre Curtin and Peter Mair; Routledge, 2012).

Last updated: October 2016

Professor of Political Theory at the University of Westminster, she studied at the universities of Louvain, Paris and Essex. She has taught at various universities in Europe, North America and Latin America and has held research positions at Harvard, Cornell, the University of California, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris. Between 1989 and 1995, she was Directrice de Programme at the International Faculty of Philosophy in Paris. She is author of the books «Gramscian and Marxist Theory», «Dimensions of Radical Democracy», «Deconstruction and Pragmatism», «The Challenge of Carl Schmitt», «The Return of the Political» (1993) and «The Democratic Paradox» (2000), as well as co-author of «Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics» (1985) with Ernesto Laclau. Her most recent work is «On the Political» (Routledge, 2005).

Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University. Her research focuses on European political economy, institutions, democracy and political theory. Her most recent books include «Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy» (co-editor, 2013), «Debating Political Identity and Legitimacy in the European Union» (co-editor, 2011), «Democracy in Europe» (2006) – named by the European Parliament as one of the «100 Books on Europe to Remember» in 2015 – and The «Futures of European Capitalism» (2002). Recent honours, awards, scholarships and grants include an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels (ULB), the Belgian Franqui Interuniversity Presidency for foreign academics, a research grant from the European Commission (DG ECFIN) and the HORIZON 2020 grant from the European Commission: (ENLIGHTEN: «European Legitimacy in Governing through Hard Times: The Role of European Networks» – as Lead Researcher at the Free University of Brussels).

Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea.
The economic and financial crisis that began in 2008 continues to cause friction in the world. The seriousness of the situation is matched by the lack of widespread understanding of current events, as well as their origins. Wolfgang Streeck places the crisis in the context of the long neoliberal transformation of post-war capitalism that began in the 70s. Streeck analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states, governments, voters and capitalist interests, expressed in inflation, public debt and rising private debt.

Last updated: October 2016