Docentes

Is Assistant Professor of the New University of Lisbon and Research Fellow of the Portuguese Institute for International Relations (IPRI-UNL). He got a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History from ISCTE-IUL. He has published a number of books, among them “História das Relações Portugal - EUA (1776-2015)”, Lisboa, Dom Quixote, 2016; “The Inconvenient Friend. The United States, South Africa, and the Decolonization in Angola”, In Miguel Júnior (ed.), The Failure Of Operation Savannah, 1975, Bloomington IN, Author House, 2015; Carlucci versus Kissinger: The USA and the Portuguese Revolution, Washington D.C & London, Lexington Books, 2011. His major scientific areas are History of International Relations, Portuguese and US Foreign Policy, Transatlantic Relations. He is regularly invited to comment on international relations in several mass media: on TV (TVI 24; RTP Informação); Radio (TSF, Antena 1); and Newspapers (Público).

Is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Studies – NOVA University of Lisbon, Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI-NOVA) and Research Fellow in the National Defense Institute (Portugal). Previously, she worked as Research Consultant to the UN Alliance of Civilizations (2008-2010), Advisor of the Ministry of National Defense of Portugal (2006-2009) and Research Assistant at the Portuguese Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Lisbon (2001-2003). She holds a PhD on International Relations and develops her research on identity in International Politics and Security issues, mainly regarding European Union, Middle East and North Africa. She authored various academic publications on EU Security and Defense Policy and MENA Geopolitics and collaborates extensively with Portuguese media.

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Is Major General of the Portuguese Army (reserve). He holds a MA on Military Sciences (Military Academy, Lisbon). He was in the Balkans, before Dayton, as UN military observer. He served in EUROFOR HQ, in Florence, as Chief of the Intelligence Analysis Section. In 2001 he was assigned to the Military Division of the DPKO, UN Head Quarters, as Peacekeeping Affairs Officers for the UN missions in the Middle East. He was Battalion, Regiment Commander and Airborne Brigade Deputy Commander and COMISAF spokesperson in Afghanistan. In 2008 he was Deputy Director of the National Defence Institute and Army Director of Doctrine before being Director of Cooperation & Regional Security in the International Military Staff, NATO HQ. He was Deputy Director, at the War College. He has more than 55 articles on technical-military, conflict resolution, security and defense matters published in books, periodicals and daily news and co-edited 2 books on peacekeeping.

Is Associate Member of the Centre for Iranian Studies at the London Middle East Institute at SOAS - University of London. At SOAS, as former recipient of the prestigious Iranian Heritage Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Dr. Tazmini was occasional lecturer on the influential MA in Iranian Studies. She also provided academic for the diplomatic corps through SOAS Research and Enterprise, a scholarly consultancy unit within the university on her area of expertise: Russia, Iran and the and wider Middle Eastern. Holding a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury, she is the author of ‘Khatami’s Iran: the Islamic Republic and the Turbulent Path to Reform’ (London, I. B. Tauris, 2009, 2013) and ‘Revolution and Reform in Russia and Iran: Politics and Modernisation in Post-Revolutionary States’ (London, I. B. Tauris, 2012). Dr. Tazmini has written numerous papers and regularly presents her work at international conferences.

Is Chairman of the Supervisory Board and founding partner of Miranda & Associates. Graduate of the Coimbra University Law School (1974). He worked and lived in Luanda, Lisbon, London, Houston and San Francisco. For 6 years he worked for Gulf Oil Corporation and Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc, with primary responsibility for the legal aspects of their operations in Angola, former Zaire, Gabon and Brazil. Since 1987, he has been providing legal and tax advice to various national and international companies in Portugal and several emerging markets in the areas of mining, oil and gas, banking, construction, fishing, oil services, etc. In recent years he has also been involved in representing various Fortune 500 companies in mediation and arbitration  proceedings in Portugal, Brazil and several African countries. He acted as a consultant to The WB, USAID, OPIC and other international organisations. He is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA).

Is Associate Professor at UAL, the University Autónoma of Lisbon. He has a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MPhil (Economics and Development Strategies) from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He obtained his bachelor degree (in Legal and Economic issues) at the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon. He is a researcher at RATIO LEGIS - Centre for Research and Development in Legal Sciences of Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa - and an associate researcher at OBSERVARE. He lectures at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. His main areas of research focus on International Migrations, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Globalization, Economic Dynamics, International Policies and Paradiplomacy, and Regions of Knowledge. He is a member of several international research networks, including UE-ISIS/ASEAN+3, ECAN and MedAsia CNRS.

Is an independent consultant and researcher on development and cooperation issues, peacebuilding and fragile states in Africa. She holds a PhD on African Studies, as well as a BA in International Relations and an MA in African Studies. She is an associate researcher of the Center for Interntional Studies at ISCTE University and of the Marquês Valle Flor Institute, in the area of strategic and development studies. She has lectured in various Portuguese universities and has been for more than a decade researcher at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies in Lisbon. She has also worked as a consultant to the Portuguese Cooperation Agency and participated in several development evaluations, namely in Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. She has published several books and papers on conflict issues and development cooperation, development response to fragile situations, EU-Africa issues and other actors in Africa.

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Is Principal Researcher with public habilitations at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL), and member of the Board of IPP – Instituto de Políticas Públicas. She is also Coordinator of the Observatório da Qualidade da Democracia at ICS-UL. Her research interests focus on electoral behaviour and political institutions in Portugal in a comparative perspective. She was one of the co-directors of the Portuguese Election Study, which has carried out post-election surveys in Portugal since 2002. She published in several academic journals. The most recente book is “Personality Politics? Leaders and Democratic Elections”, co-edited with John Curtice, Oxford University Press, 2015. In 2015, She won the European Research Council Consolidator Grant. She obtained her Doctorate in Politics in 2001 in Oxford University, St. Antony’s College.

Is a Member of the Faculty of the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), of the Lisbon University. She was a Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the Parliamentary Group of the Social Democratic Party and also coordinated the Parliamentary Group on Population and Development. She was Vice-President of the Population and Development European Forum of Parliamentarians. She is an Invitee Conference Speaker at the Portuguese National Defence Institute and at the Portuguese Higher Institute of Military Studies. She has a number of articles in journals and reviews and contributed with chapters and entries to books and collective works on various issues, namely on development cooperation, population and development, human rights, the UN and issues of the post-2015 UN Development Agenda. She holds an MA on International Relations from ISCSP.

Assessora Relações Internacionais e Comunicações Estratégicas
Presidência da República da Colômbia

É especialista em Relações Internacionais (ISCSP-Universidade de Lisboa). O seu interesse pelo estudo das dinâmicas dos processos de paz no mundo afiançou-se enquanto redigia a sua tese de mestrado, Da razão das armas às armas da razão - Processos de pacificação e lições da paz negociada na Colômbia e em El Salvador (1988-1992).

 A História da América Latina, o Marketing Político e as Comunicações Estratégicas são as áreas de conhecimento em que se move como assessora da Presidência da República da Colômbia, onde, nos últimos 5 anos, tem sido responsável pelas mensagens e comunicações especiais do Presidente Juan Manuel Santos, em estreita colaboração com o gabinete de discursos.

É ainda professora do módulo dedicado à elaboração e à análise do discurso político, da Especialização em Marketing Político e Estratégias de Campanha, na Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Áreas de interesse:

Estudos sobre paz e conflitos;
História da América Latina;
Marketing Político, Comunicações Estratégicas, Construção do discurso político.

Maestra en Artes Plásticas y visuales
Instituto de Bellas Artes
www.andreavalencia.net

Es maestra en Artes plásticas y visuales del instituto de Bellas Artes en Cali, Colombia.

Con una larga trayectoria de exhibiciones locales e internacionales, su obra explora desde la pintura, la performance el video arte y  la intervención las implicaciones culturales, históricas y políticas de algunas dinámicas para el ejercicio del poder; como la colonialidad y el patriarcado.

Artista activista y docente universitaria; actualmente desarrolla el Maestrado  "Estudios sobre las mujeres, mujer  en la sociedad y la cultura" de la Universidad Nova de Lisboa.

Áreas de Interesse:

Arte en América Latina;
Decolonialidad, feminismo, arte y resistencia;
Resistencia indígena.

Investigador
CIES-IUL - Observatório Português de Boas Práticas Laborais

É investigador do Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia do ISCTE-IUL.

Possui experiência profissional nas áreas da gestão de pessoas no setor terciário e de serviços, bem como em investigação e consultoria em matérias de organização e de responsabilidade social. Tem ‎colaborado em Equipas de Consultoria e de Investigação nos domínios da organização, gestão, avaliação e tendências setoriais na economia real.

É Pós-graduado em Gestão Empresarial pelo ISEG-LISBOA e em Sindicalismo e Relações Laborais pelo ISCTE-IUL.