Fernando Jorge Cardoso

Invited Full Professor at Autónoma University of Lisbon – Department of International Relations, Deputy Director of OBSERVARE and Editor-in-Chief of the Janus Yearbook. Researcher at the Centre for International Studies at ISCTE-IUL. He has a degree in Economics (1976) from the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Maputo, a PhD in Economics (1991) with Public Habilitations (2006) from ISEG at the University of Lisbon. He has more than a hundred publications on development, geo-economics and security, with a focus on Africa. In Mozambique, he was Dean of the School of Economics at UEM (1978-1983), advisor to the Minister of Planning (1977-1983) and Executive Chairman of the Maragra sugar company (1983-1985). In Portugal, he worked in research, training and management at various universities (1991-2021), coordinated the Africa area of the Institute for Strategic and International Studies (1991-2012) and the Strategic and Development Studies area of the Marquês de Valle Flôr Institute (2012-2021). As a consultant, he has prepared and evaluated cooperation programmes in Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde and the PALOP group. He is co-founder and executive director of the Lisbon Club and collaborates regularly with the National Defence Institute and the Institute of Military Studies.