Pedro Adão e Silva (Lisboa, 1974). Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Policy at ISCTE-IUL. Diretor of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy, he’s been lecturing at ISCTE-IUL since 2007, where he graduated in Sociology in 1997. Completed his Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence in 2009, with a dissertation on the Europeanisation of social policies. Board member of CoLABOR (Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection) and vice-president of IPPS-IUL.