Politics

She has been Editor of International News and European News programmes at SIC Portugal since 2001. Between 1992 and 1997, she was primarily based in Paris and London, working for a range of organisations including Agence France Presse, le Nouvel Observateur, the BBC and CNN's European Center. From 1997 to 2000, she was a journalist at RTP Portugal. She is currently Editor of the European business programme The Europeans. She has interviewed various political leaders, writers, economists and others, including Manuel Valls, Martin Schulz, Federica Mogherini, Pierre Moscovici, Frans Timmermans, Valdis Dombrovskis, Laurent Juppé, Anne Hidalgo, Jacques Delors, Charif Majdalani, Jean d'Ormesson, Alain Fabius, Vaclav Klaus, Vaclav Havel, Carl Bilt, Manouchehr Mottaki, Bronislaw Geremek, Joschka Fisher, Margot Walstrom, Timothy Garton Ash, Niall Ferguson and Amin Malouf.

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».

A Canadian-born, naturalised American psychologist and linguist, he obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Experimental Psychology at McGill University before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1976, where he has spent most of his career. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1979 and was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at MIT. He then became Assistant Professor at Harvard before returning to MIT a year later. He left MIT in 2003 after accepting a teaching position at Harvard, where he remains a member of the Psychology Department with the title of Johnstone Family Professor. He was also Assistant Professor at Stanford University. Striving to clarify his theses and make them accessible to a general public, he has published books such as «The Language Instinct», «How the Mind Works», «The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature», «The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature» and «The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined». One of this evolutionary psychologist's latest books is entitled «The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century», in which he argues that, despite all the conflicts currently ongoing in today's world, there has never been a better time to be alive. Named «Humanist of the Year» and Honorary President of the Canadian Psychological Association, Foreign Policy magazine included him in its list of the 100 greatest intellectuals in the USA and Time in its list of the Most Influential People in the World Today. He is a regular contributor to various publications, such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Time and The Atlantic. His tenth book, «The Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress», was released in 2018 and has been published in Portugal.

American philosopher and essayist, he is Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University, where he began teaching in 1980. After completing his undergraduate studies, he attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, before attaining his doctorate at Balliol College, Oxford, under the guidance of philosopher Charles Taylor, who was a profound influence on him. In 1980, he accepted an invitation to join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, where for decades he was in charge of the «Justice» course. With a total of over 15,000 students enrolled over the years, the course was one of the most widely-attended in Harvard’s history and was even recorded and put online for free access, obtaining millions of views. Included in «Foreign Policy's» list of 100 Global Thinkers, considered by Newsweek to be the «most relevant living philosopher» and an authentic «rock star», and by The New Republic as the «most famous philosophy professor on the planet», Michael Sandel postulates that philosophy should be taught through dialogue and only makes sense in close relation to everyday life, which is why he always tries to incorporate the context in which his discussions take place. His work has been translated into 27 languages and expressed in various books where moral reflection and the deepening of democratic life are irrevocably linked. His most recent bestseller, «What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets», is an invitation to readers to rethink the role that money and markets play in our lives and was named by Foreign Policy as one of the 20 must-read books of the year. He currently continues giving seminars on ethics and biotechnology and teaching the course «Ethics, Economics and the Law».

A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.

He is Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent member of the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna.
He has published countless books translated into over 40 languages, including the books «Bloodlands – Europe between Hitler and Stalin», «On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century», «The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America» and «Our Sickness: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary», published in Portugal.
He has received various awards, including the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, the Leipzig Book Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Prize, the Dutch Auschwitz Committee Prize and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Medal.
His work has inspired paintings, posters, sculptures, plays, films, an opera, as well as punk rock and rap songs.

Last updated: April 2021

A social anthropologist, he earned his doctorate at Harvard and currently teaches at Boston University. He is president of the American Institute for Afghanistan Studies.
He is the author of various books, including «The Central Asian Arabs of Afghanistan» (1981), «The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China» (1989) and «Afghanistan: An Atlas of Indigenous Domestic Architecture» (1991). In 2006, he received a Guggenheim fellowship, which led to the publication of «Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History» (2010), a book that received an exceptional title award from the American Library Association in 2011.

Last updated: December 2021

He heads the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University, where he teaches political science and law. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is a regular commentator on EU affairs in the American and international media.
He served as Professor of Politics at Lincoln College, Oxford University. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, a visiting professor at Princeton University's Law and Home Affairs Program and a professor at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels.

Last updated: May 2022

President of the European Parliament. In Brussels, she also serves as Head of Delegation for Malta’s Nationalist Party, one of the political forces that make up the European People's Party Group.
She graduated in 2003, the year Malta, where she was born, joined the EU. She is a lawyer, specialising in law and European politics.
She was elected as an MEP for the first time in 2013, becoming the first Maltese woman to win a mandate, which she went on to secure in all subsequent elections (2014 and 2019).
Between 2020 and 2022, Metsola was Vice-President of the European Parliament, during which time she was also responsible for relations with national parliaments and for interreligious and non-confessional dialogue.

Last updated: November 2023

Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford, where he is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.
His primary area of expertise is the history of the countries of the Eastern Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, China and Central Asia. His research on the Crusades is considered one of the greatest contributions of this generation to a new way of understanding this topic.
His book, «The Silk Roads: A New History of the World», was named one of the 25 most influential books translated into Chinese and is a top-selling non-fiction book all over the world. He is also the author of «The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World», already considered a map of the new geopolitical order and, more recently, «The Earth Transformed – An Untold History».