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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).

She is Head of Unit at the European Commission's Energy Department and, since 2021, Deputy Director of «DG ENER.A – Energy Policy: Strategy and Coordination».
She has previously headed the unit responsible for defining and implementing the European Union's renewable energy policy.
She holds a Master's Degree in European Economics from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and a degree in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon.

Last updated: May 2024

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the textile company Riopele.
With over 40 years’ experience in the textile industry, he was the Portuguese representative of Euratex in Brussels, Chairman of the General Assembly of the Textile and Clothing Association of Portugal (ATP) and Chairman of Eurocoton.
In 2006, he was distinguished with the honour of Grand Officer of the Order of Business Merit – Category of Industrial Merit, by the President of the Republic.

Last updated: May 2024

Head of Unit at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs.
His career in EU institutions began in 1994, after teaching for several years at the Faculty of Economics in Coimbra, where he completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in economics.
While in Brussels, he worked for the European Central Bank and the European Council, serving as Chief Economist in President Donald Tusk’s cabinet (2015-2019).

Last updated: May 2024

He is a principal investigator at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. Over the years, in several countries, from the United States to Israel, as well as England and Brazil, he has devoted himself to the study of nationalism, right-wing and left-wing sociopolitical movements, as well as issues related to political leadership. In 2021, Zúquete organised the «Routledge International Handbook of Charisma».

Last updated: April 2022

Reporter for the Público newspaper since its foundation. He was a correspondent in New York and editor of Pública magazine. For more than 20 years he has been reporting all over the world, in crisis zones, or wherever there is news or a good story. He has covered conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Algeria, Angola, Kashmir, Sudan, Libya and many others, and has won several awards (Gazeta, AMI, ACIDI, Portuguese Press Club, FLAD, Lettre Ulysses, Lorenzo Natali, etc.). He is a professor of journalism at the School of Communication and Media Studies in Lisbon and he wrote the biography of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and four other books. He currently has a blog on reports and gallivanting entitled «Reporter on the Loose».

Last updated: September 2020

Lead Researcher with a degree in sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the «LIFE» research group and directs the journal «Análise Social». Her work focuses on sexualities and citizenship, social inequalities and the intersections between gender positions, in addition to areas such as critical masculinity studies.
She has a PhD from ISCTE and is Visiting Associate Professor in the university’s Department of Sociology. She also teaches on several doctoral programmes at ICS and the University of Lisbon: The Interuniversity Doctoral Programme in Sociology and the Doctoral Programme in Gender Studies.
She is a regular member of the European Research Council’s (ERC) evaluation panels.
She has published various academic articles. She is the co-author of two books and author of «The Sexuality of the Portuguese», published by the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
He is a professor and researcher at the Catholic University of Portugal IEP, where he completed his Master’s degree and got his PhD with his thesis «Democracy and Legitimacy in the European Union: The Choice of the President of the Commission». He has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from ISCSP-ULisboa.
He wrote the book «The Portuguese Electoral System: Chronicle of an Overdue Reform» (2009) and the essay «Elections in the European Union», published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos in 2019.

Last updated: April 2024

President of Brazil for two terms (between 1995 and 2003).
He has a PhD in Political Sciences and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He is a university professor and writer and was considered by the Library of Congress to be one of the greatest thinkers in the area of political science and sociology in Latin America.
He was in exile during the military dictatorship in Brazil, in Chile in 1964 and then in France, before returning to his country in 1968. He was the founder of the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (Cebrap). He also taught at Stanford, Cambridge and Paris universities.
He represented São Paulo as a senator for the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) and was one of the founders of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) in 1988. He was a member of the parliament that drafted the Constitution.
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992-1993) and Minister of Finance (1993-1994) in Itamar Franco's government.
He has a PhD Honoris Causa from the University of Coimbra and University of Porto Schools of Economics and from the University of Montreal. He has received the John W. Kluge Award (2012).