Sara Patrícia Santos Duarte was born in Coimbra on the 6th December, 1976. She holds a degree in Modern Languages and Literature from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra (2001). She has been Secretary to the Office of the Ombudsman since 2013, accumulating, since 2016, the same function in the National Prevention Mechanism. Between 2009 and 2013…

Lina Mascarenhas was born in Lisbon on the 22 June, 1963. She studied Secretarial Techniques and attended the Translators and Interpreters Course of the Superior Institute of Languages and Administration. She entered the Ombudsman’s Office in 1996 and since then has worked as Personal Secretary of successive Ombudspersons. Previously, she had been the Secretary of the Office of the project…

Eva Gaspar holds a degree in Economics from the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. From 1994 to 2002, she was Brussels correspondent for Diário Económico, covering the European Union institutions, and, from 1999 to 2002, also served as Brussels correspondent for RDP–Antena 1. Between 2003 and 2017, she was chief editor and columnist at…

Mariana Melo Egídio has a degree in Law, with a specialisation in Legal and Political Sciences, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (2009), and is a Guest Lecturer and PhD student at the same institution. Her main research interests are in the areas of Constitutional Law, Fundamental Rights, Constitutional Justice, Administrative Law, Data Protection, Access to…

Catarina Carreira holds a degree in Sociology and a Master’s degree in E-learning Systems Management from NOVA University Lisbon, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. She has held middle-management and technical positions in the Portuguese Public Administration, developing her professional career in the field of official statistics on science and technology. She has represented Portugal in various national and international…

Elda Morais holds a Law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (1985-1990).With a professional career in the Portuguese Public Administration that began in 1994, she has held technical, middle-management, and senior leadership positions, with a particular focus on human resources, performance evaluation, planning, and management. Throughout her career, she has led multidisciplinary teams and represented…

Afonso Brás holds a degree in Law (2014) and a Master’s degree in Law, with a specialisation in Constitutional Law (2023), from the University of Lisbon School of Law, where he is a Guest Lecturer and a PhD candidate. He is also a Guest Lecturer at ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management. His main research areas are Constitutional…

Miguel Feldmann was born in Lisbon on 18 October 1967. He graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon and attended the Institute for European Studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. A legal adviser and lawyer, he served as an Adviser to the Ombudsperson from 1999 to 2007. After serving as an Assistant…

Pedro de Sena was born in Vila Franca de Xira on 18 November 1970. He holds a PhD with a specialisation in International Migration Law from the University of Amsterdam (2023), as well as masters’ degrees in Public International Law from the University of London (2014) and in Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law from the University of Hong Kong…

Elsa Dias was born in Alverca do Ribatejo on the 10 March, 1966. She holds a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, with postgraduate degrees in European Studies and on Organizations’ Fiscal Management. She was legal advser at the Office of the Chief Financial Officer of Lisbon and was a lawyer at the…