Bruno Oliveira is a Researcher at CIES-Iscte and an Adjunct Professor at the Higher School of Education (ESE) of the Polytechnic University of Setúbal (IPS).

He holds a PhD in Public Policy from Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon. His research focuses on two main areas: (a) the decentralisation of social policy competences and territorial poverty, having co-coordinated applied public policy research projects; and (b) innovative minimum-income policies in contexts of multilevel governance, with an international comparative focus.

He was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP-UAB) in Barcelona. He has participated as a speaker at several national and international conferences on public policy, the sociology of poverty, social security, and social policy.