Dean’s Speaker Series | Democracy in Pandemic Times

The next Dean's Speaker Series will take place on November 24 at 5pm, with Professor Miguel Poiares Maduro, former Minister of Regional Development and one of the most respected international thinkers in the interface between Law, Politics and Governance. Miguel Poiares Maduro joined UCP this year with the Vieira de Almeida Chair in Digital Governance at the Faculty of Law.

The session will focus on the broad international experience of the guest, with a focus on the importance of good governance and the design of more effective public policies for Portugal.

Bio: Miguel Poiares Maduro has a degree in Law from the University of Lisbon and a PhD in Law from the European University Institute, where he was Founder and Director of the Global Governance Program between 2010 and 2013 and is currently Director of the School of Transnational Governance. From 2013 to 2015, he was Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development in Portugal. From June 2016 to May 2017 he was Chairman of the new FIFA Governance and Review Committee. He was a member of the EU High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism. He was a Lecturer at the London School of Economics, the Centre for Constitutional Studies in Madrid, and the Chicago Law School, and is a regular guest lecturer at the Yale Law Faculty, the College of Europe and the Portuguese Catholic University, where he took over the Vieira de Almeida Chair in Digital Governance from the Faculty of Law in October 2020.

Watch the conference live on the CATÓLICA-LISBON Facebook page.