PhD in Environmental Engineering and Masters in Engineering Policies and Technology Management at Instituto Superior Técnico. Former Secretary of State for the Environment. Previously, she developed her research at IN+ - Center for Studies in Innovation, Technology and Development Policies, especially in the areas of corporate sustainability and industrial ecology. Within these areas, she developed work on environmental policies, waste management, ecoparks and industrial symbioses. She is author and co-author of scientific articles, books and technical documents in the field of industrial ecology.

Associate Professor at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Porto Business School. PhD in Economics, with specialization in Environmental Economics, from Nova School of Business and Economics. Master’s degree in Finance from Faculty of Economics, University of Porto. Degree in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Porto. Her research areas of interest are Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Macroeconomics.

PhD Researcher at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Thematic sub-coordinator for Law and Circular Economy at the NOVA Law Green Lab in Lisbon. Areas of interest include regulation, environmental law, and law and economics.

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Lisbon in 2019. M.Sc. in Econometrics and a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Lisbon. His research is primarily driven toward econometrics, time-series, causal inference, and data science. Published in several leading journals. Lecturer of statistics and econometrics at NOVA IMS (Nova University of Lisbon). Statistical consultant and trainer for numerous private and public organizations, including the OECD, European Commission, European Court of Auditors, and various other institutions, including Ministries, National Statistical Authorities, Regulators and Central Banks (all from eight countries).

Ph.D. in Law and Full Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Researcher in environmental law and author of numerous scientific articles, book chapters and books. Her areas of interest are Environmental Law, Economic Administrative Law, Social Rights, Linguistic Law, and Autonomous Public Law. Current research lines Social Rights, Environmental Law, Economic Administrative Law, Linguistic Law, Autonomous Public Law. Principal Investigator for 6 state and regional projects. Member of 5 European projects.

Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Surrey, Director of the Environmental Regulatory Research Group and co-Director of the Governing Plastics Network. Recently she has been working on the 'wicked problem' of the polluting waste from plastics and how a performance economy and ecodesign might help to stop the problem of waste.  She leads a number of interdisciplinary research projects working with social and natural scientists and engineers to seek solutions to the degradation of the planet. Rosalind is an associate member of the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey and also practices as a barrister from Guildford Chambers.

CEO of APA - the Portuguese Environment Agency, former leader of the Portuguese Environment Ministry’s International Department, coordinator for Portugal’s climate policy and director of the Portuguese Carbon Fund. He has been working on environment and sustainable development for over 20 years in Europe and in the United States. He worked for academia and NGOs and as consultant for international organizations such as the OECD, the UN and the European Commission. He holds a Law degree from Lisbon University Law School, a post-graduated degree (LLM) from the Washington College of Law/American University, as well as the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from Kellogg Business School / Católica Business School.

Associate professor at IIIEE, Lund University. He has over 20 years’ experience of researching product related policy and law, waste policies and industrial regulation. He is a member of the Board of the Swedish national strategic innovation program Re:Source, and the Research Council of the Swedish Competition Authority. He has written several reports for Swedish national agencies, and European NGOs, related to circular economy policies.

PhD candidate at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), studying policy and regulatory options for the circular economy in the field of products. He also teaches Administrative Law at the USC. He was part of Run4Life (Recovery and Use of Nutrients for Lower Impact Fertilizers) and R2π (tRansition from linear 2 circular: Policy and Innovation) circular economy projects, both funded by the EUHorizon 2020 program.

Professor at Técnico Lisboa on, namely, environmental impacts, environmental issues in engineering, environmental and sustainability challenges in engineering, rehabilitation and sustainability. Consultant in the field. Responsible for system LiderA that supports design and certification of sustainable construction. Major working are environmental assessments (environmental impact studies and strategic environmental assessment), life cycle analysis and ecodesign, environmental management systems; built sustainable management and sustainable tourism.

PhD researcher on social cognition and persuasion in the William James Center for Research of ISPA - University Institute. Areas of interest include attitudes, memory and the cognitive underpinnings of elaboration in persuasive contexts.

Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor. PhD and Magister Juris at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford. She worked at the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg and at Higher (Appellate) Court in Ljubljana. She is a holder of the Jean Monnet Module on Fundamental Rights in EU Business Law and Policy. Teaching and researching in the field of EU Law, international law and comparative law (European private law, consumer protection, internal market, AI, circular economy). She has written widely on various EU law issues.

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Centre for Justice and Governance at Minho University in Portugal and affiliated member of the Maastricht European Private Law Institute and the Centre of European Law and Politics in Bremen. She has received several research grants and recognitions and has been working in academic and policy pan-European projects for the harmonisation of European Private Law since 2005 and has vast international experience in teaching and academic management. The perspectives and insights obtained in her career to date have led to her current research agenda which combines consumer law, digitalisation, and sustainability studies.

PhD in Law. Full Professor in Law of the University of Maribor, Faculty of Law and Jean Monnet Chair Professor of EU Law. Teaching and researching in the field of EU Law (internal market, price regulation, international trade, digital economy). Advisory board member of the Common Market Law Review. Involved in various projects concerning quality standards for academic legal research. Author of the first research paper dealing with legal aspects of servitization (CMLRev, 2016), later she has also studied servitization as a tool for ecological modernization (REEL, 2018).

Lawyer by training with a PhD in Environmental Law. Assistant Professor in Law and Sustainability at the University of Utrecht since 2022. Priorly, she was the Course Director in Environmental at ERA Academy of European Law (Trier). Since 2017 she is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Athens working in the field of waste law and teaching Environmental Law.

She has participated in various conferences and published numerous academic papers in different areas of Environmental Law, Sustainability, and Climate Change in English and in Greek.

PhD in Law and Professor at the University of Lapland. Public procurement and contract law specialist. PI and Co-PI for two Academy of Finland projects and one Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry funded project. Member in Swedish Competition Authority’s Research Council and former member of European Commission Stakeholder Expert Group on Public Procurement. Research interests include questions relating to the interaction of public and private markets, public procurement, sustainability, competition neutrality, security of supply, state aid, competition, and contract law. Extensive publishing in her areas of expertise, especially in the field of public procurement.

Civil Engineer and Master and PhD degree in Environmental Engineering by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He has 12 years of professional experience collaborating and providing technical advisory to different public, private organizations in the management and application of environmental and sustainability projects in cities. With more than 7 years of research experience in the field of circular economy, life cycle assessment, and evaluation indicators, he has participated in multiple international conferences and collaborated with international organizations in the training and dissemination of the circular economy and sustainability, especially in the construction sector.

Graduate (2002) and Masters (2011) in environmental engineering. Head of the Waste Stream and Market Division at the Portuguese Environment Agency. 14 years of experience as a researcher and consultant on waste and water management and environmental permits. Speaker in several events. Main area of interest: waste management; water management.

Professor of Applied Economics and coordinator of the ICEDE research group (Innovation, Structural Change and Development) at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Member of the executive board of AECR (Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional) and of the directive of SEM (Sociedade de Economía Mundial). His research topics include Economy of Innovation, Policies of Innovation, Economic Development, Inequality, Globalization and Neoliberalism.

Coordinator for Helsinki Principle 3 (carbon pricing), at the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action, hosted by the World Bank. Senior policy expert in international tax and environmental taxation, providing expert consultancy services to the World Bank, the African Tax Administration Forum, and a diverse range of NGOs. Founding member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Environmental Taxation, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Africa Tax Research Network of the Africa Tax Administration Forum. Her research focuses on the interface between international tax law and policy issues, with emphasis on the impact on emerging economies.

Degree in Law and Master's in Constitutional Tax Law, finishing a PhD in Tax Law at the University of Lisbon School of Law. Guest Assistant at the University of Lisbon School of Law, teaching Economics, Public Finance and Tax Law. Visiting Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University (Law School), the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and Instituto Superior Técnico, where he teaches at the post-graduate level subjects of Energy Law & Economics, Public Economics, Energy Tax Law, Optimal Design of Voluntary Carbon Markets, Hydrogen Economy, among others.

PhD in Economics and Masters degree in Industrial Strategic Management from the Faculty of Economics and Management (ISEG). Associate Professor at the School for Economic Science and Organizations - Lusofona University for Humanities and Technology.  Consultant at the Planning, Policy and Prospective Center for the Portuguese Government (PlanAPP). He was a senior economist at the Portuguese Competition Authority. He published a book on regulation and he has published different articles and working papers on regulation, impact assessment, game theory and environmental regulation.

PhD in public law (University of Lisbon), with a thesis on public procurement law. He lectures and researches in different areas of public law (administrative law and litigation, public procurement and public contracts law, constitutional law and fundamental rights) and is currently developing a project on green public procurement. Attorney at Law and Legal Adviser.

Associate Professor at Agronomy Institute and PhD in Agronomy from the University of Lisbon. She holds a postgraduate degree from the Universities of Wageningen and Gent and is an evaluator for the European Commission, for the National Center for Research and Development in Poland, for the Research Center in Argentina, for the University of Copenhagen, and for the African Development Bank. She is part of the editorial panel of ISI journals, has extensive experience in coordinating scientific events, evaluating scientific works and scientific pedagogical guidance. In addition to interests in soil science, recycling of organic waste, among others, she has been working on nitrogen since 1997, having recently been appointed co-coordinator of the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen group.

PhD researcher at Hasselt University since 2019. His research focuses on the legal transition to a circular economy in the Belgian construction sector. He studied law at Hasselt University (LL.M. Government and Law, 2016). After his studies, he worked for three years as an attorney-at-law at the bar of Limburg (Belgium) with a focus on environmental law, public procurement, real estate and construction law. During his activities as an attorney-at-law, he had the opportunity to do research within the scope of two research projects at Hasselt University.

Associate Professor of Private Comparative Law at Università degli Studi dell’Insubria. She holds an LLM in Environmental Law and a PhD in Comparative Law, is Member of the Board of Directors of “Rivista giuridica dell'Ambiente” and holds the course “International European and comparative environmental law” at L.L.M. in Sustainable Development of the Milan University. She was invited as a speaker at several conferences and participated to research projects, both at national and international level, focusing on environmental law topics.

Senior researcher of environmental law at Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland Law School. He has written extensively on waste and circular economy legislation. His research focuses on steering circular economy with legal instruments including e.g. regulation on waste, chemicals, product design.

Associate Professor [Reader] at the School of Law, University of Surrey, and co-director of the Surrey Centre of International and Environmental Law (SCIEL). Her research engages with aspects of Human Rights law, EU law and Environmental law. Much of her current project research addresses environmental pollution - particularly plastics waste pollution - and she collaborates with colleagues in the Governing Plastics Network, managed by the Universities of Surrey and Nairobi.

Postdoctoral research fellow on the CirCus project, based in the Centre for Private Governance at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. She was previously an Assistant Professor in Law at Coventry University and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. Her research is within waste law, with a particular focus on extended producer responsibility, the implications of different property rights in waste, and how blockchain technologies can be used to underpin and support waste regulations and policies.

Professor at the University of Lapland. His research areas include Circular economy and private law and law and modern technology, especially blockchains and smart contracts.

PhD in Law and Political Science from the University of Lisbon School of Law. Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon School of Law and Research Fellow at Lisbon Public Law. Currently serving as Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court, he served as a Justice of the Constitutional Court of Portugal (2016-2020). His research areas are urban planning law and property law.

PhD degree (2004) in law at the KULeuven (Belgium). She specialized in EU competition law at King's College (UK, MA 2012). Caroline is coordinator of the Research Program General Law of Obligations and Contracts of the Ius Commune Research School and author of numerous contributions to national and international journals dealing with issues of contract law, consumer law and competition law. She addressed numerous national and international conferences and participated in many international working groups.

Associate Professor of Law at the University of Lisbon Law School and Member of the Board of Portuguese Competition Authority. PhD in Law from the University of Lisbon. Associate of the European Institute and the Institute for Economic, Financial and Tax Law of the University of Lisbon Law School, and Senior Researcher at CIDEEFF – Research Centre on European, Economic, Financial and Tax Law, University of Lisbon Law School. He is also the author of several books and academic articles on Competition Law.

Master’s graduate from Stockholm Resilience Center with a degree on “Social Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development”. He is working as a trainee at the European Parliament and at Electra Energy Cooperative a social enterprise that promotes the active engagement of citizens in renewable energy production in Greece, the Balkans and abroad. He has worked in multiple research programs as an assistant on topics such as climate smart farming and the EU Green Deal. He is interested in journalism and has written for various Greek newspapers.

Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at Uppsala University, with an extensive experience working in different positions at various universities, such as Stockholm University, University of Oxford, Bocconi University. He has also practiced law at the Legal Affairs Division of the WTO and as legal counsel at the Swedish Competition Authority, representing the authority in the Patent and Market Court and the Patent and Market Court of Appeal. He is specialized in competition law, international economic law, and EU law. He is currently conducting research on the relationship between competition law and sustainability, the Green Deal, and degrowth.