Allen Packwood BA, MPhil (Cantab), is a Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was awarded an OBE for services to archives and scholarship in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours. His book, How Churchill Waged War, was published by Pen & Sword in 2018.
The Churchill Archives Centre is located in the grounds of Churchill College, and is home to the papers of Sir Winston Churchill, Baroness Thatcher, Sir John Major and almost seven hundred of their contemporaries: politicians, diplomats, civil servants, military leaders and scientists of the modern era. It is still collecting. Allen likes to joke that it is the equivalent of four American Presidential Libraries!

Christopher Sainty took up his appointment as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Portugal in September 2018. Previously, he was the Deputy Head of Mission for Italy from August 2011 to August 2015.
A career diplomat, he brings experience from a number of Foreign Office Departments as well as overseas postings in India, Pakistan, Spain and the Netherlands.
Chris has spent much of his career working on European Union issues: he headed the Foreign & Commonwealth Office team responsible for the organisation of the UK’s presidency of the EU in 2005.
Chris studied mathematics and philosophy at Oxford University. He is married and has three children.

Edward Godfrey is chairman of the British Historical Society of Portugal, an organization originally founded in the 1930’s and which has about 250 members. The object of the Society is to study, preserve and publish documents on the shared history of Portugal and Great Britain. The Society organizes lectures, visits and support to cultural-historical institutions, either Portuguese or British.
Edward was brought up in north-west England near Liverpool and graduated in Economic and Social History at the University of Kent in 1969. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with a leading City of London firm in 1973 and worked with that firm’s Lisbon office from 1973 to 1977.
Edward is particularly interested in the history and role of British families in the economic development of Portugal as well military history. He is a churchwarden of St. George’s Anglican Church in Lisbon, founded in the 1600’s, and an administrator of the adjacent British Cemetery, founded in 1717. These organisations have substantial archives relating to the British Community and family history, thus complementing the Society’s own archives.

Isabel Capeloa Gil is the 6th Rector of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) and President of the International Federation of Catholic Universities. She is a Full Professor of Culture Studies at the School of Human Sciences. She studied in Lisbon (University of Lisbon), Munich (Ludwig Maximilian University) and Chicago and holds a PhD in German Studies from UCP. Previously, she was Vice-Rector for Research and Internationalization (2012–2016) and the Dean of the School of Human Sciences (2005–2012), of the Catholic University of Portugal.
Having grown up in China (Macao), Isabel Gil has a special interest in researching issues of diversity and conflict and has structured her work around the exploration of the disciplinary boundaries between literature, the arts and other disciplines. She is furthermore a passionate advocate of international education and has worked consistently to develop international research networks, exploring the different ways in which the practice of the arts and humanities is pivotal to advance a more sustainable and intellectually robust global education agenda.
She was a founding member and is a senior researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), where she coordinates the research group Culture, Art and Conflict (CAC). As an international scholar, Prof. Gil has held numerous visiting professorships at prestigious universities such as LMU University, Munich, Hamburg University, Ca’Foscari University, Venice, the Houston School of Film at the National University of Ireland, PUC Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and USJ (Macao). She was a Visiting Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin) and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (U. Stanford). Amongst her honours are a Fulbright Fellowship, and DAAD, FLAD and Gulbenkian Scholarships.
Isabel Capeloa Gil has been a regular consultant for research foundations such as the Danish Research Council, FAPESP (Brazil), the FCT and FLAD in Portugal as well as the Luso-American Comission (Fulbright). She was an evaluator of the prestigious Excellence Initiative of the Germnan Federal Government and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and is Chair of the Humanities panel at the Danish Research Council. Furthermore is the Honorary Fellow at the IGRS, School of Advanced Studies, University of London. In 2018, she became Chair of the Research Leadership Forum of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils. She is also a Member of the European Council of Foreign Relations, as well as a member of the Advisory Board of the Gulbenkian Foundation. Since 2016, she has been the President of the Board of the UCP Foundation.
She believes firmly that global engagement in higher education is key to advance stronger values for a more equitable world.
Her research is currently published in Portuguese, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. She is the author of over 182 publications, bridging cultural theory, interarts studies, visual culture and culture and conflict.

James W. Muller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where he has taught since 1983, and Chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of the International Churchill Society. Educated at Harvard University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, he is a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and served as a White House Fellow in 1983–84 and an Academic Visitor at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1988–89. Professor Muller is editor of The Revival of Constitutionalism (University of Nebraska Press, 1988), Churchill as Peacemaker (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech Fifty Years Later (University of Missouri Press, 1999), of Churchill’s interwar books of essays, Thoughts and Adventures (ISI Books, 2009) and Great Contemporaries (ISI Books, 2012), and of Churchill’s earlier book, The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 vols. (St. Augustine’s Press, 2021). He is at work on a new edition of Churchill’s autobiography, My Early Life: A Roving Commission.

João Carlos Espada is the director and founder (1996) of the Institute for Political Studies at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He earned his D.Phil from the University of Oxford (1990-94), under the supervision of (Lord) Ralf Dahrendorf, and he taught at Brown, Stanford and Georgetown Universities in the US (1994-96 and 1999/2000) as well as in the College of Europe, Natolin/Warsaw (2011-2013). He is the editor of the quarterly journal Nova Cidadania (Est. 1998) and president of the Portuguese section of the International Churchill Society/Churchill Centre, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Democracy. He has contributed regular opinion columns to the press since 1985, presently having a fortnightly column at the daily digital newspaper Observador. He was political advisor to President Aníbal Cavaco Silva (2006-2011) and President Mário Soares (1986-91). His latest book is The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty: A View from Europe (London/New York: Routledge, 2016/2018; Brazilian edition (Távora) 2019, Portuguese edition (Dom Quixote) 2023). João Carlos Espada was awarded an Honorary OBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II in September 2018.

João Pereira Coutinho has a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal, where he also teaches. He is a columnist in Portugal and Brazil and a regular political commentator on Portuguese television. His latest books (‘Conservadorismo’ and ‘Edmund Burke’) have been published simultaneously in Portugal and Brazil.

Joaquim Pinheiro has a PhD in in Literature from the University of Madeira where he also teaches in the FAH, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures) and he is a Integrated Researcher at the Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies at the University of Coimbra. Since mid-June 2021, he has been President of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. His main investigation focuses on the cultural, literary and textual analysis of the work of Plutarch and Greek authors of the imperial period. In addition, he has developed works in rhetoric, classical mythology and the classical roots of Western culture.

José Manuel Durão Barroso is former President of the European Commission (2004-2014) and served as Prime Minister of Portugal (2002 to 2004). He started his political career in government in 1985 and served as state secretary for home affairs, state secretary for foreign affairs and cooperation, and minister for foreign affairs. His academic appointments included visiting professor of Georgetown University and visiting professor at Princeton University. He is currently a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Portugal (Director of its Centre of European Studies) and at the European University Institute, School of Transnational Governance, Florence. José Manuel Barroso graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon and completed an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Geneva. He is currently Chairman of Goldman Sachs International and Chairman of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

José Miguel Sardica is an historian and associate professor with aggregation at the Faculty of Human Sciences and at the Institute for Political Studies of the Catholic University of Portugal. He is also member of the Board of the Scientific Society of the Catholic University of Portugal, Deputy Director of the Inter-University Doctoral Programme in History (PIUDHist), senior researcher of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), and consultant for the CRC-W and the Research Centre for Religious History (CEHR) of the Catholic University of Portugal. He writes a column for Rádio Renascença (the Portuguese catholic radio network) and is guest to television and radio programs for comments on historical and current issues. His research and teaching areas are dedicated to 19th and 20th century Portuguese and international history in the political, cultural and intellectual/media fields, He has lectured in Spain, France, UK, Italy, Germany, Belgium and USA, and has authored c. 95 chapters in books and articles in academic journals, 18 single-authored books on various themes and epochs of contemporary Portuguese history and 10 co-edited books.

Maria João Rodrigues de Araujo is a Fellow in Music at the University of Oxford. She is a Doctor of Philosophy in Music from the University of Oxford, Christ Church College. She holds a Bachelor of Music (BMus Hons) from the University of London (King’s College London and Royal Academy of Music) and a ‘Licenciatura’ Degree (a four year undergraduate degree) in Music Sciences from the University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal. She was The Royal Opera House Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford; Director of Education and Research at Casa da Música, in Oporto and Board Member of RESEO - the European Network for Music, Opera and Dance Education, in Brussels. She carries out extensive humanitarian work as International President of ANDI - New Dialogue Organization; Dame of the Order of Malta (The Sovereign and Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta); and Dame of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

Miguel Filipe Machado de Albuquerque is a Portuguese politician of the Social Democratic Party in Madeira (PSD) and the current President of the Regional Government of Madeira. He took office as leader of the Social Democratic Party of Madeira on 10 January 2015. He was a former mayor of Funchal, Madeira. Albuquerque likes gardening.
He was born on the 04ᵗʰ of May 1961, in Madeira island, Portugal
In the 29 March 2015 regional elections Albuquerque's centre right party PSD held on to power after an overall majority with 44.4% of the votes and winning 24 seats in the regional parliament. It was the 11ᵗʰ time in a row that the PSD won an absolute majority in Madeira.
Miguel de Albuquerque is a Lawyer by trade. Formerly he held the posts of Deputy Secretary of the Social Democratic Party from 1992 to 1995, Vice President of the Regional Parliament from 1994 to 1996 and Mayor of Funchal from 1994 to 2013. He has been President of the Social Democratic Party in Madeira since 2014 and President of the Regional Government of Madeira since 2015.
His publications include: the collectanea of published articles “Funchal Sobre a Cidade”- Quetzal Publisher (October 1996) and the books “Espelho Múltiplo” Politics and Modernity -Edicarte Publisher (February 1999), “Roseiras Antigas de Jardim” (Old Garden Roses) Alêtheia Publisher (November 2006), “Crónicas de um Lugar Comum” (Chronicles of a common place)- Alêtheia Publisher (February 2010) and “Winston Churchill in Madeira” – Alêtheia Publisher (November 2018).

Mónica Dias is Vice-Director of the Institute for Political Studies of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), where she teaches since 1992, and Head of the PhD Programme. At the IEP, she also organizes the annual Summit of Democracies, a simulation of a meeting of Democratic States for University and School students.
She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the IEP-UCP and works currently in the field of International Politics focusing on Democracy Studies, Peace Studies and International Conflict as Professor and Senior Researcher.
She graduated and holds a MA in Cultural Studies and besides her academic experience, which includes lecturing at the University of Cologne, Germany, and participating in a Summer Institute in the USA on Federalism (Fulbright), she translated several books and was a lecturer at international youth seminars on multi-cultural Education, Leadership and Conflict Management organised by the European Commission. From 1996 to 2000, she worked at the Portuguese Parliament as consultant for the Committee on Education, Science and Culture.

Orlando Samões is the head of the undergraduate degree program in Political Science and International Relations at the Institute for Political Studies at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (IEP-UCP) as well as the editor-in-chief of Nova Cidadania Quarterly Journal. At IEP- UCP he teaches, as part of a ‘Great Books’ curriculum, on figures such as Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and ‘Publius’. He also teaches political science at the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics.

Director of Millenniumbcp where he has worked since 1986. He was a representative of RAM - Autonomous Region of Madeira in the Economic and Social Council. He is an invited assistant professor at the University of Madeira. He holds a PhD in Business Administration (DBA) from Nottingham Trent University. In addition, he studied international relations and geopolitics at Staffordshire University and at the Catholic University of Louvain.

Born in the Parish of Câmara de Lobos, Pedro Coelho has a degree in Economics from the Lisbon School of Economics and Management of the Technical University of Lisbon (ISEG-UTL).