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.

Catarina Roseta-Palma is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She was Iscte's Director of Sustainability from 2018 to 2022. Her main research interests are in natural resource management, especially water, and in environmental policy. She worked as a consultant with Regional Water Boards (ARH Alentejo and Algarve) and INAG (Portuguese Water Authority), as well as the Portuguese Environment Ministry and the European Commission. She was in the Portuguese Commission for Green Fiscal Reform (2014). She is a member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, in whose conferences she regularly participates, and where she was elected EAERE Council Member for the period 2010-2013 (vice-president for 2012-2013). Among others, she is also in the Iberian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERNA), where she was a member of the Board in 2005-2011. She has taught Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Microeconomics at the undergraduate as well as graduate level. She is also involved in executive education programs in the area of Sustainability. 

Felipa de Mello-Sampayo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at ISCTE-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and integrated researcher in BRU-IUL. The PhD Thesis in Economics from University of Birmingham in 2001 was publish at The British Library. Among her several peer review publications, all published after the PhD and indexed in Scopus and Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge (WoS), there are 14 manuscripts without coauthors. Her research focus in microeconomics models and their empirical application in several fields of social science.  Coordinator of the project PTDC/EGE-ECO/104157/2008, entitled "Health and Economic Growth" funded by the Portuguese Government under Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). Coeditor of special issues entitled “Spatial Econometrics Analysis of Sustainability” of Sustainability  and "Heathcare in China" of the Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health.

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.

João Madeira is an Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL. He obtained his PhD in 2008 at Boston University and worked afterwards at the University of Exeter and the University of York. He is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on the sources of business cycle fluctuations and in particular the role played by labour market rigidities. He currently works on understanding better inflation expectations and how disagreement in monetary policy committees arises and impacts the economy.

João Leão is currently professor and vice-rector of the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. His research interests include regulation, public finance and macroeconomic policy. João Leão holds a Ph.D in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a M.Sc. and a B.sc. in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics.  He has published articles on regulation and competition and on the Portuguese and European economy, including in top journals such as the Journal of The European Economic Association. He served as Minister of State for Finance of Portugal during 2020-2022. He was a Secretary of the State for the Budget from 2015 to 2020. From 2010 to 2014 he was the director-general of the Office for Economic Studies at the Portuguese Ministry of Economy. Prior to this, he was a professor of Economics at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and at Nova School of Business and Economics. As part of his duties as Minister of Finance, he represented Portugal as Governor of the European Stability Mechanism, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank, the African Development Bank Group, the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank Group and the World Bank Group. He was also President of the ECOFIN Council during the Portuguese Presidency of the European Council in the first semester of 2021 and the Chair of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2021 to 2022

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/

Mónica Meireles is Assistant Professor at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and Researcher at BRU-IUL (Business Research Unit). She is director of the Master degree in Business Economics and Competition. She was director of the Undergraduate degree in Economics at Iscte (2018-2020) and vice-director of the Department of Economics at Iscte (2014-2010). Her main research interests are in energy and environmental economics, where she has focused on renewable energies, environmental policies, sustainable development and growth models with technological change. She has been a consultant for the Portuguese Environmental Ministry and the European Commission and she has also supported the Ministry of the Environment with Environmental Economics training. She is a member and founding partner of the Portuguese Association for Energy Economics (APEEN), affiliate of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), in whose conferences she participates regularly, and currently belongs to the Fiscal Council of APEEN. Among others, she is also a member of the Iberian Association of Natural and Environmental Resource Economics (AERNA) and she was a Board member of the European Association of Young Economists (EAYE) (2016-2018). She teaches in different areas, with particular emphasis on the Economics of Environment and Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Economics and Microeconomics at different academic levels.

Nuno Crespo holds a PhD in Economics and a Master degree in International Economics. He is the Director of the Master in Business Economics and Competition. In the most recent years, Nuno Crespo was Vice-Rector of ISCTE-IUL and assumed several other positions such as Director of the Department of Economics, Scientific Commission of the Department of Economics, and the coordenation of courses (Master in Portuguese Economy and International Integration and Master in Health Services Management). Researcher at Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), he has several publications in scientific journals such as World Economy, World Development, Economics Letters, Review of World Economics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Economic Surveys, Empirical Economics, Papers in Regional Science, Tourism Analysis, Journal of Economics and Social Measurement, Telecommunications Policy, Journal of Informetrics, Scientometrics, International Review of Applied Economics, International Journal of Social Economics. Publications of books and book chapters in his areas of expertise. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal and member of the editorial board of several international scientific journals (European Journal of International Management, International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, Sustainability, and Tourism Analysis, among others). Editor of the MPRA. Member of the International Economics Advisory Board of the Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Global Partner of the National Economic Education Delegation (NEED). Member of the Advisory Council of A3ES.

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.

Sandro Mendonça is Professor at the Department of Economics, ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute. He is also Invited Professor at ISEG - University of Lisbon and Visiting Professor at the Dept. of Economics of the University of Insubria, Italy. He is a German Marshall Fund Fellow since 2012. He was a visiting scholar of King’s College, London, in the Fall of 2012. In 2015 he was nominated “European Young Leader” by the Friends of Europe Foundation. He is faculty of SPRU, the University of Sussex, since 2016. Since 2012 he teaches and supervises at the doctoral programs of the Southern Medical University (Guanghzou) and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu). He served as Director of the Economics undergraduate programme at ISCTE Business School (AACSB accredited) during two terms. He was Scientific Manager of “Science and Society” at CYTED (the Ibero-American program for science and technology, www.cyted.org) from 2014 to 2018, and remained an advisor to the Secretary General. He cooperated with CEN (European Committee for Standardization) and EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Rights Office). He was deputy member of the Management Committee of OceanGov (European Network on “Ocean Governance for Sustainability”, sponsored by the European Science Foundation).  His research and consultancy work mostly focus on innovation and industrial policy. He is also active in the fields of strategic foresight and conflict research. His research is cited in a number of scientific papers as well as academic textbooks, professional handbooks and official reports by international organisations, including the European Commission, the OCDE, several UN agencies and programmes (such as WIPO, UNIDO, IPCC), etc. He holds editorial positions in the following academic journals: Foresight and STI Governance, Frontiers in Sustainability, Public Policy Portuguese Journal, and OBS*. He has consulted extensively and internationally, both with the public sector and the industrial sector, as well as the “third sector”, both in his country and abroad.  He has maintained a civic activity for a long time, most visibly in the media. In the past he held opinion columns in magazines like Revista Macau (the Macau-based magazine on Oriental and Portuguese-speaking affairs) and UP (the on-board magazine of TAP, the Portuguese heritage carrier). In terms of newspapers, he held columns in a number of newspapers: Público (Portugal’s reference daily newspaper), Diário de Notícias (the oldest mainstream daily paper) and Diário Económico (a leading Portuguese business newspaper, which survives today as Jornal Económico). He has appeared frequently as commentator at CNN Portugal, News Now, RTP3, SIC-N and TVI-24, cable news networks. At the time of his nomination for ANACOM he held a weekly column in Expresso (Portugal’s leading weekly newspaper). On X-twitter he is @sfm_reg and can also be found on Linkedin.  He was Executive Board Member (2018-2023) of ANACOM, the Portuguese communications authority with responsabilities for spectrum strategy and manangement, telecoms and postal supervision, submarine cables and outer-space economic activities, and emerging cybersecurity and digital economy challenges. Sandro Mendonça is member of the advisory board of the monitoring unit of the Portuguese official national authority for cybersecurity (CNCS). He is a member of the governing body of Ceadi, the intelligence council of the Brazilian telecommunications regulator (Anatel). He is an analyst with the mexican-based DPL News, a media and research agency focusing on digital & telecoms in Latin America. He is a columnist at Macau Business magazine and at Jornal Económico. He coordinated the study "The Futures of Big Tech in Europe" (published in 2024) for DG Research, European Commission. And he is a Fellow Economist for DG Grow, European Commission (for the year 2024).

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    

Carlos Coimbra is currently an Invited Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at ISCTE and Consultant to the Board of Directors of Banco de Portugal. Graduated in Economics from ISEG (1983), took Pedagogical Aptitude and Scientific Capacity Tests at ISCTE (1993). He was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Statistics Institute (2012-2022) and Director of its Department of National Accounts (2007-2011). Previously, he was Deputy Director of the Statistics Department of the Bank of Portugal (2004 and 2007) and coordinator of the Portuguese economy area of ​​the Economic Research Department of the Bank of Portugal (2001-2004). In 2000, he coordinated the Mission Team of the Ministry of Finance of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union, and the representation of the country in the Economic and Financial Committee, having been distinguished with praise by the Minister of Finance. From 1998 to 2000, he was Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister, with responsibilities for monitoring the economic situation and providing technical support for the negotiation of Agenda 2000, having earned the praise of the Prime Minister in this respect. From 1995 to 1998, he coordinated the short term economic analysis unit at the economic research department of the Bank of Portugal. From 1991 to 1995 he was coordinator of the core of quarterly national accounts at the Study Office at INE. Between 1985 and 1991, he was an Economist at the Studies Office of the General Confederation of Portuguese Workers and, between 1983 and 1985, he was technical advisor to trade union associations for the collective negotiation of Company Agreements in the communications and audiovisual sectors. He is the author of several studies on economic policy and the Portuguese economy.

Luís Clemente-Casinhas holds a BSc degree in Management from Nova School of Business and Economics. He completed his MSc in Economics and his PhD in the same field (with a scholarship from FCT) at ISCTE-IUL. In 2019, he began his role as Invited Teaching Assistant at ISCTE-IUL, in the Macroeconomics courses of the Economics Department. He is an Invited Assistant Professor not only at ISCTE-IUL but also at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, presenting teaching experience at ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management as well. He is certified as a Specialist in Microsoft Office Excel (2013), having received the Nova Excellence Award in 2014 and the IBS TOP Master distinction in 2018. He conducts research in the areas of Central Banking and inequality, being part of a project led by the London School of Economics.

Vítor Hugo Santos Ferreira received his PhD in 2010 from the University of Lisbon (ISEG) in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, focusing on the dynamics of regional innovation and catching-up. He has a Master's degree in Economics and Management of Science, Technology and Innovation from the University of Lisbon (ISEG) (2006) and developed his Master's thesis on the "Moulds Sector in Portugal Vs China: Strategies, Skills and Innovation". He is a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria since 2002, where he teaches Advanced Strategy, Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation, Knowledge Management, Games Markets and Multimedia UCs.  Between 2012 and 2014 he was Coordinator of the Master of Management Control and is a member of the scientific committee of the International Business Master of IPLeiria since 2014. Over the years he has collaborated with some European business schools in Finland, the Netherlands, Hungary and France and is a visiting professor at the University of Feevale and Coimbra Business School. He has supervised more than 20 entrepreneurial projects and guided 30 Master's dissertations in the areas of Strategy, Innovation, International Business and Knowledge Management.  He was responsible for the creation of the "entrepreneurial engineering" award. He is a trainer in the area of entrepreneurship in programmes linked to Poliempreende. Since 2013 he has developed extensive work in Supporting the business sector, in the study of entrepreneurship phenomena and in the implementation of investment projects in higher education/industry (QREN, P2020, Framework Programme). He is a researcher and member of the scientific council of the Centre for the Rapid and Sustainable Development of Products (CDRsp), a research unit of IPLeiria. He was co-responsible for several important studies, such as the "comparison of the Portuguese mould industry with the Chinese one", the "Assessment of the education needs of the Leria Region", the "assessment of a hydrogen-based industry in South Africa" and the "Internal Pine Forest Region as a System of Innovation". He is the author of many published scientific papers, Chair of GBATA (Global Business and Technology Association) and of the European Conference on Knowledege Management and reviewer in many conferences and different journals.  He has worked as a consultant on entrepreneurship and innovation projects for many business associations (Nerlei, Aciso, Airo), where he has also worked as a trainer for entrepreneurs and executives. He was a founding partner of the start-up Look an Go. Since 2013 he has been Executive Director of D.Dinis Business School, responsible for the management and strategy of this entity. He is responsible for the scientific and teaching courses in Entrepreneurship, the Postgraduate Diploma in Innovation Management, the General Management Program (in partnership with ISCTE), the Mini-MBA and the Management course for SMEs. He is a guest columnist for "Jornal de Leiria" and "o Molde" magazine. He is a founding member of the Eurafitar Innovation Association and a founding member of the accelerator StartUp Leiria. He has been a guest speaker at more than 20 events in the last 3 years and organizer of several national and international conferences.