Filipe Guimarães da Silva

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Filipe Guimarães da Silva is the Executive Director of the Mário Soares and Maria Barroso Foundation. He has led teams and projects of higher education, science and innovation both at the research level and in the public policy and government context. He was advisor and chief of staff to the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education (2016-2018), managing several policy agendas, namely the national open science policy and research infrastructures. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Languages and International Relations from the Universidade do Porto and a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from NOVA FCSH, with a thesis on the nationalisation of the brewing industry during the Portuguese Revolution of 1974. He is doctoral candidate at the ISCTE-IUL, working on public policies in higher education. He is a collaborator for the Memory for All Programme, working and publishing on social and economic history, industry and the Portuguese Revolution.