Sociologist and specialist in participatory democracy, public participation, and public policy planning and evaluation.<\/p>\n
With over two decades of experience, he\/she has collaborated with national governments, local authorities, civil society organizations, and international bodies, including the United Nations.<\/p>\n
Since 2011, he has served as a World Bank consultant for the implementation of processes to strengthen democracy in countries across four continents.<\/p>\n
He is the founder and executive secretary of the Network of Participatory Municipalities in Portugal.<\/p>\n
He has dedicated his career to creating public policies that are more participatory, inclusive, and closer to citizens. He is the author and coordinator of various publications on these topics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":813,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-814","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/814\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summit-i9cascais.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}