Tiago Antunes was born in Lisbon in 1978. He graduated in 2001 and finished his PhD in Law in 2015 from the University of Lisbon Law School. He has been teaching at that School since 2001, where he is an Assistant Professor. He also lead researcher at CIDP – Research Centre into Public Law. He was a lawyer at the firm PLMJ & Associados from 2001 to 2005 and was Associate Research Fellow for the CISDL – Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, from 2011 to 2015. He wrote several scientific papers in Portugal and abroad, especially in the fields of Environmental Law, Administrative Law and Constitutional Law. He was an Accredited Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament from 2016 to 2017. He was Chief of Cabinet of the Secretary of State in the Prime Minister’s Cabinet in the 18th Government since the 1976 democratic constitution (2009-2011), deputy of the Secretary of State in the Prime Minister’s Cabinet in the 17th Government (2005-2009). He was Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Prime Minister António Costa’s first Government and Secretary of State in the Prime Minister’s Cabinet in Prime Minister António Costa’s second Government.

Miguel Vales is the Group Commercial Director for Systems at Efacec, leading the commercial strategy and development efforts of Energy Systems, Environment and Transportation business units. He assumed this role after several years as Strategic Marketing Director of the Group. Miguel also serves as company representative in APREN (Portuguese Renewable Energy Association) and PPA (Portuguese Water Partnership). With a consultancy background and international experience delivering projects in several European Utilities, Miguel also led the Business Development and Operations teams of the Gas & Power Business Unit of Galp, in Spain, while representing the company in several organizations such as Sedigas and CNMC. Miguel holds a Degree in Economics by FEP (University of Porto) and an Executive MBA by IESE Business School in Madrid.

Oscar Gaspar has a degree in economics. Oscar Gaspar worked as Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister from 2005 to 2009 and Secretary of State for Health from 2009 to 2011. Oscar Gaspar is currently the President of the Portuguese Association of Private Hospitals (APHP), member of the Board of the Confederation of Portuguese Business (CIP) and VP of the National Strategic Health Council of CIP. He is member of the Portuguese Economic and Social Council and of the National Health Council. He has been appointed as UEHP Vice-president for a second term.

Law degree from the Universidade Lusíada do Porto; Attending post graduation course in Labour Law at the Institute of Corporate and Labour Law, Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra; iii.                 Lawyer since 1998; 2000. 2000. Trainer since 2000.

João Nogueira Martins (Sertã, 1967), educated at the Universities of Coimbra (Portugal) and Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) – Degree and Master in Economics, has been working for the EU institutions since 1994, after a few years teaching at the Coimbra Faculty of Economics (FEUC). He joined the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) of the European Commission, and moved then to the ECB (2000-02); in these two occasions he worked mainly on fiscal issues (Excessive Deficits Procedure and Stability and Growth Pact, and respective statistics). Back to DG ECFIN, he was then adviser to its Director General (2003-08), head of unit in charge of long-term fiscal sustainability (2009), and deputy mission chief (troika) during the first economic adjustment programme for Greece (2009-12). In 2014-15 he was adviser and then chief economic adviser (2015-19) to the President of the European Council (Donald Task). Since then, he is back to the European Commission as Head of the Unit in charge of economic policy coordination (Stability and Growth Pact, European Semester, Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure and Recovery and Resilience Facility).

Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra (2002), PhD in the specialty of Production Technology, from the same institution (2007). He worked at the SODECIA Technology Center from 2007 to 2011, in the area of tool design for automotive components and international simultaneous engineering projects (e.g. FIAT and FORD). He was also responsible for continuous improvement. He joined INEGI from 2011 to March 2023, where he assumed functions in the area of project management and innovation in national or international projects, in addition to acting as Principal Investigator integrated in the LAETA Associated Laboratory in its INEGI-FEUP Pole (Intelligent Systems and Control Group). Since April 2023, he has been an integrated researcher at INESC TEC's Associated Laboratory, at the Centre for Enterprise Systems Engineering, assuming responsibilities in the Twin-Transition (Green & Digital) research area. The main fields of activity comprise the investigation of new methodologies/tools for multidimensional evaluation of complex systems and products, integrating broad digitalization and principles of Life Cycle Engineering. In particular, he investigates under the paradigms of Twin-Transition, Sustainable and Circular Economy Development and the emerging concept of Industry 5.0. He was the manager of more than 50 R&D/innovation projects and published more than 60 scientific papers (including journal and conference articles). He is co-author of 7 patents (all active and 6 successfully transferred to companies). He is the author or co-author of 15 original methodologies for the evaluation of complex products or systems, with a framework for sustainable development. In this context, different original frameworks were born under its scientific and innovation coordination that evolved to levels of high maturity and were integrated into commercial software with national companies, having been tested in a real environment, either in national or international companies (such as Airbus Defense & Space). For example, the frameworks LeanDesign-for-eXcellence, Multi-Layer Stream Mapping (MSM) and Efficiency Framework (the latter classified by the Innovation Radar of the European Commission, TRL 7) stand out.

Vasco Rosa Dias is Data Protection Officer (DPO), Lawyer and a Patent and Trademarks Attorney, currently holding the position of DPO at two Portuguese research institutes, INESC TEC and ISPUP. He is also a member of the Ethics Committee of INESC TEC. Vasco integrated the ethics and privacy governance bodies of several EU or international research projects and is a member of the pool of Experts of the European Data Protection Board for new technologies. As a private practitioner he advises on issues mainly related to Intellectual Property, Privacy, and technology transfer. His main topics of interest and research cover the fields of EU law, technology regulation and data protection.

Willem van Winden is a Professor at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and director of the Centre for Economic Transformation (CET). He leads a research group where action research is conducted on complex urban innovation projects involving multiple stakeholders: smart city projects, circular economy initiatives, positive energy districts, and developing campus areas/innovation districts. The red thread in this work is always about how stakeholders can jointly achieve successful and scalable innovation. In recent years he has have been thinking more and more from regenerative principles and Donut Economics: how can (urban) innovations be developed and scaled up that contribute to a sustainable and social society? How do you put positive social and environmental impacts at the center of the approach? What new roles are stakeholders given? What new business models fit the bill?

Nikki Kergozou works as an economist in the OECD’s Economics Department. She joined the OECD in 2019 after working five years at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the country’s central bank. At the OECD, Nikki has worked in the Office of the Chief Economist and on country desks, including Egypt, France and Portugal. She speaks English and French. A national of New Zealand, Nikki Kergozou holds a Masters in Public Policy and Development from the Paris School of Economics, and an Honours degree in Economics, with a minor in French, from the University of Otago in New Zealand.