Alexandra Ferreira-Lopes is an Associate Professor at ISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE - IUL), at the ISCTE Business School (IBS) and she is affiliated with the Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL) of ISCTE - IUL. She earned her PhD in Economics from the Lisbon School of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon (ISEG - UL, Lisbon, Portugal). She is the author of articles about Open Macroeconomics, Business Cycles, Endogenous Growth Theory, and Empirical Economics, published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Ecological Economics, Economic Modelling, Open Economies Review, Oxford Economic Papers, Public Finance Review, Regional Studies, and Tourism Management. She was the sub-director of BRU-IUL between February 2014 and August 2016 and the director of the Msc. in Economics between July 2019 and June 2021.

Joaquim J.S. Ramalho graduated in Economics from the University of Evora in 1993 and received a masters degree in Mathematics Applied to Economics and Management from the Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG-UTL) in 1996. In 2002, he completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Bristol. Since 2016, he is Professor at ISCTE-IUL (Dep. Economics) and before that he taught at the University of Evora for 23 years. His research focuses on theoretical and applied microeconometrics, and he has published in a variety of academic journals, including the Journal of Econometrics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Econometric Reviews, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis and International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Luis F. Martins (1973) is Associate Professor with "Agregação" of Economics at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, since 1998. Previously he has been Junior Assistant of Quantitative Methods at the University of Algarve (1996-1998). He studied economics and econometrics at ISEG-UL, (Licenciatura in Economics, 1995; M.S. in Mathematical Modeling for Economics and Management, 1998) and economics at the Pennsylvania State University (PhD in economics, 2005). His research focus on econometrics and applied macroeconomics and applied finance and he has published a number of articles in refereed journals including Econometric Theory, Econometrics Journal, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Tourism Management, Econometric Reviews, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Quantitative Finance, European Financial Management, and Empirical Economics. He was a member of the LOC of the 2017 Annual Congress of the EEA/ESEM held in Lisbon 2017 (UL and ISCTE-IUL). He was co-director of the PhD program in economics (February 2019 - September 2021). More at the personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/luismartinseconomics/

PhD Economics MSc Development and International Cooperation BA Economics Professor of Political Economy and Development Studies at the Department of Political Economy, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Iscte ( University Institute of Lisbon) Researcher at Centre for International Studies, Iscte. Wide experience in teaching (BAs, Masters and PhDs) and functions of academic management at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon and other institutions in Portugal, Mozambique and Angola: - ISEG-University of Lisbon; Atlantic University; Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra (Portugal) - University Eduardo Mondlane; Institute of Health Sciences (Maputo. Mozambique) - Catholic University of Angola (Luanda) Between 1999 and 2013, scientific auditor and consultant for the Portuguese Ministry of Education.  Fields of interest (teaching and research): History of Economic and Political Ideas International Political Economy Development Studies African Studies  

Nadia Simoes holds a PhD in Economics and a Master degree in Economics from ISEG (Universidade de Lisboa). Started to teach in the Economics Department of ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa in 2002. Director of the Bachelor Degree in Economics (Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa). Former Director of the Master in Business Economics and Competition for nine editions of the programme. Researcher of the Economics Group of the Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL). She has published paper articles in several journals such as Economics Letters, Journal of Economic Surveys, Empirical Economics, Acta Oeconomica, International Review of Applied Economics, Telecommunications Policy, Panoeconomicus, International Journal of Social Economics, Economics Bulletin, among others. Associate Editor of the journal International Journal of Education Economics and Development (SCOPUS Q4) and Editor of the journal Cogent Economics & Finance (SCOPUS Q3). Member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues (SCOPUS Q1); Journal of Entrepreneurship Education (SCOPUS Q2); Panoeconomicus (SCOPUS Q2); Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (SCOPUS Q2); Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal (SCOPUS Q3); the International Journal of Entrepreneurship (SCOPUS Q3); and Revista Galega de Economia (SCOPUS Q4). NEP Editor for the area of Education (nep-edu). Member of the Editorial Board of the European Training Foundation (European Union). She has participated in several research national and international research projects financed by public institutions (including two projects funded by FCT and a project funded by the Ministry of Employment).  Expert for different national and international institutions such as the EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT OBSERVATORY (EUROPEAN COMMISSION), INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION , CEDEFOP, EUROFOUND, EUROPEAN CENTRE OF EXPERTISE, PORTUGUESE LABOUR MINISTRY, and PORTUGUESE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION.

Ricardo Barradas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Economy from School of Social Sciences at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Integrated Researcher at Centre for the Study of Socioeconomic Change and the Territory (Dinâmia'CET) in Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. His main research interests are in the fields of political economy, post-keynesian economics, financialisation and other related areas. He is author of several scientific articles that are published in reputable international journals, such as Economic and Labour Relations Review, International Review of Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Review of Keynesian Economics, Review of Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, among others.

Dr Thomas Greve is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Director of the PhD program in Economics at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE), and external faculty at CEEPR at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before joining ISCTE and MIT, he was a University Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Cambridge, and an Oxford Martin Fellow in Economics at the University of Oxford. He has held visiting positions at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Caltech and the University of Cambridge. He has worked in the Ministry of Finance and the Competition Authority. Dr Greve has advised the Danish government regarding regulatory issues and the energy regulator (Ofgem) and the system operator (National Grid) in the UK regarding the design of auctions for the allocation of offshore transmission assets and the sale of energy balancing services. Dr Greve has a PhD in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Mathematics and Economics from the Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on game theory, mechanism design and regulation. His research has appeared in the Economic Journal, Energy Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Energy Journal and other academic Medias.

Vivaldo Mendes has been a Professor of Economics at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) since 1998. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Sussex and a degree in Economics from the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão of the University of Lisbon. He has held several university management positions in the last two decades always at ISCTE-IUL, from Vice-Rector between 2005 and 2009, President of the General Assembly between 2002 and 2005, Director of the Department of Economics between 2010 and 2014, elected member of the General Assembly between 2000 and 2002, member of the Scientific Council between 2010 and 2014, and Director of the Master in Economics between 2010 and 2013. He was also a member of two specialized committees of the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities (CRUP) representing ISCTE-IUL between 2005 and 2009,  and a guest lecturer at the Higher Institute of Military Studies (IESM) between 2010 and 2016. Vivaldo Mendes has taught various subjects over the years, ranging from macroeconomics, introduction to computation for economics and finance, monetary and financial economics, to international economics, microeconomics, and game theory. He has published in macroeconomics, optimal monetary policy, and complex dynamical systems. He is a committed supporter of the "open-source software" movement and an active member of the Julia computing language. For more information, see his website:  https://vivaldomendes.org