Politics

Writer. He has written several non-fiction books, including «While We Survive this Fatal Illness», «Humour is No Joke and Who Shall We Burn Today?».
He started out in journalism and worked for outlets such as «Focus» magazine and «Rádio Renascença».
He was also a Culture and Communication researcher at the Catholic University of Portugal.
He wrote the novel «Precious» and won the FITA International Award in the category of Best Chronicle in 2022.

Last update: august 2025

Assistant professor in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Science at the University of Aveiro and researcher at GOVCOPP.
He has a Master’s degree in Planning and Projects in the Urban Environment from the University of Porto and a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Aveiro.
He directed the Master’s degree course in Urban and Regional Planning from 2016 to 2020.
He coordinates the Public Policy Planning Laboratory, a research group with Master's degree and PhD students at the University of Aveiro, which won the University of Aveiro Cooperation Prize in 2023.
He has been involved in a number of national and international research projects on participatory land use planning and has promoted several civic movements and initiatives on behalf of cities and citizenship. He has also written a number of national and international publications on the subject of participation and cities.

Last updated: august 2025

Pedro Camões holds a PhD from the University of South Carolina and is assistant professor in the department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro.
He teaches and researches in the fields of decentralisation and local government, having published around twenty articles in international journals.
His consultancy work includes studies for the Directorate-General for Local Authorities, the Ministry of the Economy of Portugal, the Municipality of Porto and the OECD.
He has also served as an adviser to the Government of Mozambique as part of state decentralisation projects led by the World Bank.

Last updated: June 2025

Nonresident fellow in energy and global oil at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He has over 35 years of experience working at the intersections of energy, economics and public policy.
Before joining the Baker Institute, he was the senior U.S. economist at BP. For 12 years, he led the production of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy, the world’s longest-running compilation of objective global energy data. He also was responsible for the company’s long- and short-term oil market analysis, and he led the global oil market and transportation sector analyses for the long-term BP Energy Outlook.
Prior to joining BP, he was an analyst and manager at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. He was responsible for assessing the implications for U.S. strategic interests of developments in global oil and other energy markets,
Finley is a senior fellow of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics. He has held leadership roles in the International Association for Energy Economics, the National Association for Business Economics, and the Conference of Business Economics, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and holds graduate degrees from Northwestern University (in economics) and the George Washington University (in finance).

Last update: march 2025