bio

I’m Part-time Professor in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute, working as work package leader in two Horizon projects (2025–2028): ANIMA MUNDI and StreamSCAPES.

My work centres around the geopolitics of culture, cultural diplomacy and relations, cultural/audiovisual policy, and culture in sustainable development, focusing primary on the European Union and its global action. I was also Principal Investigator for Erasmus University Rotterdam on REBOOT, a Horizon Europe project focused on the European Film Industry. As an academic, I have contributed to successful grant applications in a total of €11.5 million.

My work is driven by the aim to inform EU policy. It has been cited in documents by and for the European Parliament (here, here and here), the European Council (here) and the European Commission (here). I have also addressed the European Parliament’s CULT Committee; a 2024 intervention on EU cultural diplomacy can be watched here and a 2021 intervention on the status of artists and cultural workers can be watched here. Additionally, I worked as an independent EU policy advisor and consultant for several years.

As a Portuguese and British citizen, I am committed to strengthening UK–EU relations through cultural and media policy. I am co-founder and co-chair of the Forum on EU-UK Cultural & Media Relations and support several UK-based organisations on a pro bono basis: the British Foreign Policy Group, the UK Coalition for Cultural Diversity, and the Portuguese Association of Researchers and Students in the UK (PARSUK). I am also member of the European Expert Network on Culture, member of the management committee of the International Cultural Relations Research Alliance (a network co-convened by ifa and the British Council), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

I hold a PhD in Visual Culture from Goldsmiths, University of London, an MA in Politics/European Studies from UCLouvain, and a BSc in Sociology from ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute.

I’m trilingual in English, French and Portuguese.

CURRENT ROLEs

Part-time Professor, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute

Co-founder and co-chair, Forum on EU-UK Cultural & Media Relations

Editorial Advisory Board, Cultural Trends

Member, European Expert Network on Culture

Scientific Council Member, Portuguese Association of Researchers and Students in the UK (PARSUK)

Associate Fellow, British Foreign Policy Group

Senior Media Policy Advisor, UK Coalition for Cultural Diversity

MEMBERSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Management Committee Member, ICRRA – International Cultural Relations Research Alliance
Member, Chatham House – the Royal Institute of International Affairs
Fellow, Royal Society for the Arts
Fellow, Higher Education Academy

advisory board roles

Reimagining Museums – Culture& and ANTITHESES/University of Oxford. Funded by the Wellcome Trust

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