Social Affairs

Sociologist, director of the Transversal Skills Laboratory (LCT-Iscte) and assistant professor at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, School of Sociology and Public Policy.
She is an integrated researcher and member of the Scientific Committee of CIES-Iscte; coordinator of the Inequalities, Work and Well-Being research group at CIES-Iscte; and a member of the Inequalities Observatory.
Throughout her career she has participated in project teams and scientific consultations on specifically sociological topics, such as social classes and social inequalities; characterisation of the living conditions and value orientations of higher education students; social change and lifestyles; ageing; well-being; the role of the State in promoting equity, among others.
She is CIES-Iscte's representative on the ESS/European Social Survey and a member of the Eurostudent research team.

Graduated in Communication and Journalism, with a postgraduate degree in Political Advising and Media. On her way to a master's degree in Political Science at ISCTE.
She assumed the role of digital content manager at the Foundation in October 2023.

Last updated: october 2023

Economist in the Bank of Portugal’s Economics and Research Department, where he has worked since 2001. He graduated and obtained his PhD in Economics from Nova University Lisbon, where he has taught since 1993. He has also taught at the Nova School of Business and Economics and the School of Law at Universidade Nova, in the areas of Portuguese and European Economics, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. João Amador has been an editor and author of book chapters on the Portuguese Economy and International Trade and has published articles in international scientific journals.

Master's degree in Economics and Social Policy from ISEG-ULisboa (the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Economics and Management) and PhD student in Gerontology at the University of Southampton. He currently works in the Office of the Secretary of State for the Inclusion of People with Disabilities. As a member of the GEP at the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, he was also a member of the Group of Experts on Demographic Issues. And he worked with the Social Policy Division and the OECD Group of Experts on Pensions.

Last updated: March 2022

PhD in Development Studies from ISEG-ULisboa (University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Economics and Management). Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. His research has focused on the study of the pension system in Portugal, particularly the impact of parametric and structural reforms on its sustainability.

He is a Senior Technical Consultant at the Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation (IHRU), which he chaired between 2012 and 2017. He was involved in the start-up of urban rehabilitation operations in Alfama and Mouraria. He contributed to the creation of RECRIA, IAJ and PER and helped implement the 2012 urban rental reform. He also worked on the study on 100 years of housing policies. He is co-author of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos study "The real estate market in Portugal" (2022).
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.

Last updated: April 2022

Economist, specialist in housing and tourism. She taught at the University of Madeira for 10 years and worked as a researcher at ISEG.
She wrote the book "Tourism in Portugal" (2016) and is co-author of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos study "The real estate market in Portugal" (2022).
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Nova University Lisbon, a Master's degree in Economics and European Studies from the Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG) and a PhD in Economics from ISEG. She is a contributor to the "Tempestade perfeita" programme on Rádio Observador and a columnist for the online newspaper "Eco".

Last updated: April 2022

Researcher at Queen Mary University of London (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoc Fellowship) and Assistant Professor at ISEG. He holds a PhD in Economics from Nova SBE, did part of his research at Harvard (FCT-Fulbright scholarship) and completed the Advanced Studies Programme at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. His research interests include the evaluation of public policies. He has published, among others, in the European Economic Review, the Journal of Urban Economics and the Journal of Economic Geography. He was the scientific advisor for the documentary "Portugal, uma casa para todos" and is one of the authors of the FFMS study "The Real Estate Market in Portugal".

Last updated: October 2023

He got his PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute in 2007. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Minho (U Minho) and Director of the PhD programme in Economics at the same institution. He is also a researcher at NIPE (UMinho), CIPES (UAveiro and UPorto) and the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA), Germany, and assists the Bank of Portugal on a permanent basis. His research focuses mainly on Labour and Education Economics and Applied Econometrics. He has written several academic papers, books and book chapters, and has been published in prestigious journals such as Econometrica, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Regional Studies and Studies in Higher Education. His work has been cited, among others, in prestigious specialist journals such as Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Industrial and Labour Relations Review and Labour Economics. He maintains research collaborations in several countries, leading and integrating research teams that develop funded projects. He has authored policy-oriented reports on minimum wages, education and employment applicable to the Portuguese labour market. He also has extensive experience in consultancy for both private and public institutions.

He is an associate professor at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE) in Lisbon. He got his PhD in Economics from Stockholm University in Sweden, where he also taught between 2007 and 2014.
He taught at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. He worked as a researcher at the European Central Bank and was a fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.
He carried out research at the Centre for Economics and Finance at the University of Porto until 2019. His research focuses on the interaction between micro-heterogeneity and macroeconomic dynamics, particularly on the topics of fiscal policy and optimal taxation.
He has published several papers in international scientific journals, such as the Journal of Monetary Economics or the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and contributed to the second edition of the Handbook of Macroeconomics.

Last updated: April 2024