Ana Costa is a professor at ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute (Political Economy Department of the School of Social Sciences) and researcher at DINAMIA’CET (Research Centre for Socioeconomic Change and the Territory). She graduated in Economics and concluded a Master in Development and International Cooperation at ISEG and a PhD in Economics at ISCTE. She is subdirector of DINÂMIA’CET. She is also member of the Observatory about Crisis and Alternatives (Centre for Social Studies - University of Coimbra), in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Research Interests: Political economy of austerity; Theoretical and epistemological foundations of the crisis of 2007-2008 and of the public policies to deal with the crisis; Values, (in)commensurability of value and valuation; Individual and collective decision making in context of moral difficulty; Institutional economics.

She holds a PhD in Economics from Iscte-IUL and the University of Bourgogne (France), a Master's degree in Economics and Human Resources Management and a degree in Sociology (ISCTE-IUL). She is full professor at the Department of Political Economy of ISCTE-IUL, and an integrated researcher at the Centre for Studies on Socioeconomic Change and Territory (DINÂMIA'CET). She is director of the Master's Degree in Human Resources Development Policies and deputy director of DINÂMIA'CET. She was coordinator of the FCT project, 'Flexible pay for flexible contracts? The dynamics of the relationship between wage policy and employment contracts at the firm level' between 2009-2013 (PTDC/EGE-ECO/108547/2008) and the FCT project 'Bringing Higher Education, Training and Quality of Employment Closer', between 2018-2022 (PTDC/SOC-SOC/30016/2017). She is the coordinator of the Youth Employment Observatory (DINAMIA-Iscte-IUL). Her main study and research interests include skills demand, compensation policies and labour market segmentation.

Full Professor in the Department of Political Economy at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon. Aggregation (2020) and PhD in Economics (Iscte, 2020, 2005), Master's in Economics and Social Policy (ISEG, 1997), Degree in Sociology (Iscte, 1991). Vice-Rector for Education and Accreditation (2022-present).  Director of Iscte's PhD programme on transitions to sustainability. Teaching since 1991 in undergraduate, master's and doctoral programmes in the scientific and disciplinary areas of the history of economic thought, the political economy of the territory and sustainability. Research carried out as part of international and national projects, with European and national funding. National and international publications in the field of political economy, including subjects such as territory, innovation and sustainability. She was Director of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (2019-2022), Deputy Director of the School of Social Sciences (2016-2019), and Director of the Department of Political Economy (2016-2019). She was also Vice-Chair of the Pedagogical Council (2014-2017) and a member of this and other Iscte bodies since the beginning of her teaching career. 

Doctorat d’État en Droit, Univ. Nice, France; LL.M., Harvard Law School, USA. Professor of Law at ISCTE – IUL. Researcher at DINÂMIA’CET – IUL; Director of this Centre from May 2013 to May 2016.   Member of the General Council (2009/17) and of its Specialised Commission for Scientific Research (2015/17), ISCTE-IUL. Invited Professor at the Faculty of Law, UNL (2003/13).   Has participated in 16 research projects funded by the EU or the FC T; Principal Investigator of 7 FCT projects. Supervised c. 40 Post-doc, PhD or Master theses; has been a member of c. 70 academic juries.   Member of the following councils and commissions: the Scientific Council for the Social Sciences and Humanities of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology; the External Scientific Advice Commission of CEDIS – Research Centre on Law and Society of the Faculty of Law of the New University of Lisbon; the Scientific Council of UniFoj – Legal and Judiciary Training Unit of the Permanent Observatory of Justice of the University of Coimbra; the External Scientific Advice Commission of UNIARQ – Centre of Archaeology of the University of Lisbon; Consultative Committee of the Cybersecurity Observatory, National Centre for Cybersecurity.    Member of several expert groups, namely the Expert Group on Science and Governance, EC (2005/07) and the Expert Group on Bench-marking of Science and Technological Policies, EC (2001/02). Delegate of Portugal to the Advisory Group of Experts on the Law of the Sea of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of Unesco and to the Legal Subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.   c. 210 publications (books, articles, book chapters, reports, book review).s

Luísa Veloso, sociologist. Associate Professor at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Researcher at Cies-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Associate Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto. Professor of the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto between 1991 and 2008. Coordinator and researcher of several national and international projects. Author and scientific coordinator of several publications. Main research interests: work, employment, innovation, science and technology, professions.

Renato Miguel do Carmo is an associate professor (with habilitation) at the Department of Sociology of ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon and research fellow at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL), Portugal. He is Director of the Inequality Observatory  and participates in the scientific coordination of COLABOR. Issues such as social and spatial inequalities, welfare state, employment and labor market, public policy, mobilities and social capital have been at the core of his research projects. His  publications have appeared in Current Sociology, European Societies, Journal of Civil Society, Sociologia Ruralis, Time & Society, Sociological Research Online, Geoforum, Community Development, European Planning Studies, Journal of Labor and Society, and others. He has published 33 books (21 as editor and 12 as author or co-author), five of them published by international publishing houses (Bristol University Press, Berghahn, Palgrave, Springer, Annablume). Since obtaining PhD, he has received several scientific awards: António Dornelas Award 2022; CIES-Iscte I&D Awards 2022; awarded with the ISCTE-IUL prizes for one of best international articles published in 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2019; award to the best article in the field of regional studies published in Portuguese journals in 2008 (Portuguese Association for Regional Development, APDR); special Prize of the Jury 2009 for the best article published in the journal Análise Social by a young researcher.   

Ricardo Paes Mamede holds a PhD in Economics from Bocconi University (Italy), a Master's Degree in Economics and Management of Science and Technology from the Higher Institute of Economics and Management of the Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG/UTL), and a degree in Economics from the same institution. Associate Professor at the Political Economy Department of ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where he has been teaching since 1999 in the areas of International Political Economy, Industrial and Innovation Policy, and Policy Evaluation. He is President of the Board of Ipps-Iscte (Institute for Public and Social Policies) since 2018 and President of the Installing Committee of the School of Applied Digital Technologies (Iscte-Sintra) since 2022. Between 2008 and the beginning of 2014 he was Coordinator of the Research and Evaluation Centre of the NSRF Observatory. He was Director of Economic Analysis and Forecasting Services of the Office of Strategy and Studies of the Ministry of Economy and Innovation in 2007 and 2008. Member of Dinâmia'CET (Centre for Studies on Socio-economic Change and the Territory). Research interests: structural change and economic development, sectoral dynamics and innovation, and public policies. Born in Coimbra in 1974.