1º Fórum / 1st Forum of Public Policy Professionals

1º Fórum

The UMPP - Public Policy Monitoring Unit at the University of Évora, in association with the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Cohesion Policy, as part of the 1st Forum of Public Policy Professionals, will hold a Round Table devoted to the subject of "Thirty Years of Public Policies in the Alentejo". For this Round Table, were invited to discuss the topic, individuals and entities that collaborated at various moments of the formulating and assessing process of public policies in the Portuguese Alentejo region.

SPEAKERS

   

António Manuel Figueiredo

 

António Manuel Figueiredo , Economist, is now 69 years old and always shared its role as Invited Professor at Porto School of Economics - University of Porto and the fields of consultancy. As Invited Professor at Porto School of Economics (retired after 2010) he was charged of leading graduation and master courses of Globalization and Economic Development, Growth and Development Economics, and Economics of Knowledge and Innovation, carrying out research in these fields. As a consultant, he has been CEO of Quaternaire Portugal till 8th May 2018, leading now the Strategy and Innovation Board of the Company, charged of the themes strategic and organizational planning, evaluation of public policies and programmes, including those co-funded by Structural Funds, transborder and regional co-operation, regional development and employment and training. Among the last publications should be underlined the following ones:
- “The European Social Model in a Context of Crisis and Austerity in Portugal” ( with Maria PIlar González), in Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (2014), The European Social Model in Times of Economic Crisis and Austerity Policies . Genève: International Labour Organization (to be also published in Edward Elgar);
- “From a binary system to its fragmentation: a view about the present and the future of Polytechnic Higher Education in Portugal” (with Hugo Figueiredo and João Lourenço Marques). In Conceição Rego, António Caleiro, Carlos Vieira, Isabel Vieira e Maria da Saudade Baltazar (editors) Redes de Ensino Superior: contributos perante os desafios do desenvolvimento . University of Évora: CEFAGE – Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão;
- “Territorialisation of Public Policies: innovation and culture” (with Elisa Pérez Babo), in Viriato Soromenho Marques and Paulo Trigo Pereira (editors), Claiming Portugal – what future for public policies in Portugal, Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian – Institute of Public Policy Thomas Jefferson – Correia da Serra, Lisbon;
- Still holding on? Inequality, labour market and middle-income groups in Portugal” (coauthor with Maria PIlar González, Hugo Figueiredo and Luis Delfim Santos), in Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (coordenador), Europe's Disappearing Middle Class?: Evidence from the World of Work, Edward Elgar – ILO, London and Genebra, 2016.
-"Social Convergence, Development Failures and Industrial Relations: the case of Portugal” (with Pilar González)”. Paper to be published by the ILO-EC Project on Industrial relations in Europe: Fostering equality at work and cross-country convergence. March 2018.

João Fermisson
 

João Fermisson  is Graduated in Geography and Regional Planning and MSc in Territorial Management by New University of Lisbon.Partner and Senior Consultant at ImproveConsult – Consultoria e Estudos, Lda.Member of the Portuguese Research Network on Public Policies at UMPP – Monitoring Unit of Public Policies/University of Évora.Former Consultant at CDR - Regional Development Agency, CESO I&D – Investigação e Desenvolvimento, SA, TIS – Transportes, Inovação e Sistemas, SA and Quaternaire Portugal – Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, SA.Coordinator and team member in several studies and projects in the fields of Urban and Spatial Planning, Local and Regional Development and Evaluation of Public Policies.

Mário Rui Silva

 

Mário Rui Silva  is Professor at Faculty of Economics of University of Porto, where he has been over 40 years teaching in Master and PhD programmes, undergraduate programmes and executive education programmes. He has 74 publications in international and national scientific reviews, books and books chapters, conference proceedings and working papers. These scientific works are focused on economic growth, innovation, competitiveness, entrepreneurship and regional development. Currently he is the Director of the Master in Economics and Management of Innovation. Bachelor in Economics (FEP, 1978) and PhD in Economics (Université Pierre Mendès-France, Grenoble, 1989). Formerly his academic activities also included executive functions as Vice-Dean of Faculty Economics of University of Porto (1998 –  2009) and Vice-Dean of EGP-University of Porto Business School (2008 – 2009).
Other relevant executive functions include those of Executive Member of the Directive Commission of the Regional Operational Programme for the North Region (European Programme), 2009 – 2012 and Chair of Sigma Team Consuting. As consultant, Mário Rui Silva has participated in the last 20 years in several professional and technical studies and projects focusing on Innovation and Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Public Policies. Consultancy activities include participation in the design or the evaluation of some of the most important European programmes for Portugal such as POE / PRIME and POSI / POSC (3rd Community Support Framework) or Programa Operacional Regional do Norte (QREN / NSRF). He has been coordinator of the Ex-ante Evaluation of the Partnership Agreement “Portugal 2020”. Currently, he is member of the team in charge of the Evaluation of the Incentives System of Portugal 2020.
Also relevant are consultancy activities for entrepreneurial associations, CCDRs, OECD, local Governments, technological agencies and firms, including some of the most distinctive Portuguese industrial firms.

   

Presentation of the Study Tarifa social de energia: Resultados, financiamento e perspetivas de futuro

Gabriel Osório de Barros

 

Gabriel Osório de Barros has a Bsc in Economics (University of Évora, 2000), a post-graduation in Public Sector Management (University of Évora, 2001), a master’s dregree in Financial Management (University of Extremadura, 2002), a Msc in Management (Lusíada University, 2007) and a Msc in Economics and Public Policies (ISCTE-IUL, 2008). He completed the CAGEP - Advanced Course in Public Management (INA, 2014) and the curricular part of the PhD in Public Policy (ISCTE-IUL, 2016).
He was researcher (University of Évora, 1999-2000), public officer at tax administration (DGCI, 2000-2008 and 2009-2010), tax experienced senior (Ernst & Young, 2008-2009), parliamentary advisor for Budget and Finance at the Portuguese Parliament (2010-2011), senior advisor of the Minister (Ministry of Agriculture, Sea, Environment and Spatial Planning, 2011-2012) and head of office of the Minister (Ministry of Solidarity and Social Security, 2012-2013; Ministry of Solidarity, Employment and Social Security, 2013-2015. Since January 2016, is Economist (Senior Technician) at the Strategy and Studies Office (Ministry of Economy) and is, since January 2017, Head of the Public Policy Evaluation and Planning Team.
He has published articles and papers on the area of Economy and has presented several conferences and seminars.