Jorge Caleiras, sociologist, is a senior staff member of the Institute of Social Security since 1998 and integrated researcher at CIES-ISCTE. He has a PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and has developed research and published in the areas of labour market, social and employment policies. His publications include: Para lá dos números: as consequências pessoais do desemprego; Desemprego em 2020. Impactos da pandemia, mapeamentos e reflexões (co-author); O regresso do desemprego massivo? (co-author); Entre o retrocesso e a mitigação: caminhos e descaminhos das políticas de emprego em Portugal; O labirinto das políticas de emprego (co-author); Emprego e desemprego: o que mostram e o que escondem as estatísticas? (co-author); A articulação das estratégias de emprego e inclusão social (co-author); Bridges for inclusion: a portuguese overview; É o (des)emprego fonte de pobreza? (co-author). He was a member of the Advisory Board of Portuguese Sociological Association (APS), António Dornelas prize/2017 and has been part of teams in several research projects, already completed or ongoing, including EmployALL.