João Ferrão was a Research Professor (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon). He holds a PhD in Human Geography and lectured for over 20 years at the Geography Department (University of Lisbon). He has over 30 years of experience in the areas of economic and social geography and in regional and urban planning. He has been the national coordinator of several international networks under different EU and Latin American funding programmes - TSER Programme, Alfa Programme, European Science Foundation Scientific Programme, etc. He advised the OECD and coordinated various public policy assessment studies for the Portuguese Government and European Commission, including of the II and III EU Framework Programmes (Portugal). Ferrão was Secretary of State for Spatial Planning and Cities (2005-9) and President of the Portuguese Association for Regional Development (APDR). He was a member of the Portuguese Scientific Council for the Social Sciences and Humanities (CCCSH - FCT) and Pro-Rector of the University of Lisbon (2013-7). He is a member of the National Council for the Environment and Sustainability (CNADS) and of several scientific academies, including the Academia Europaea and the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. 

Recent Publications (2019/20)

2020 – “From Policy-scientist to Science-informed Politician. Combining Territorial Imaginaries, External Circumstances and Domestic Possibilities, in Louis Albrechts (ed.), Planners in Politics, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, USA, pp. 55-74.

2020 – “Indicators for the assessment of social resilience in flood-affected communities – A text mining-based methodology”, Science of the Total Environment, 744, 140973, Rita Jacinto, Eusébio Reis & J. Ferrão, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140973.

2020 – “The (hidden) role of the EU in housing policy: the Portuguese case in multi-scalar perspective”, European Planning Studies, Marco Allegra, Simone Tulumello, Alessandro Colombo & João Ferrão, DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2020.1719474.

2020 – “Novos Desafios das Políticas Locais”. In Helena Carreiras e Alexandre Calado (org.), Descentralização e Reorganização do Estado, Mundos Sociais, Lisboa, pp. 39-47.

2019 – “Para uma Geografia com Todos os Lugares: Reflexões a Partir do Caso Europeu”, in Álvaro Ferreira, João Rua e Regina Célia de Mattos (org.), Produção do Espaço. Emancipação Social, o Comum e a ´Verdadeira Democracia`, Consequência Editora, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 55-72.

2019 – “Território. Uma Política ainda com Lacunas, Descontinuidades e Falta de Articulação entre os Vários Níveis de Ação”. In Ricardo Paes Mamede e Pedro Adão e Silva (coord.), O Estado da Nação e as Políticas Públicas 2019: Menos Reformas, Melhores Políticas, IPPS-IUL, Lisboa, pp. 37-43.

2019 – “O Programa Nacional da Política de Ordenamento do Território: da ideia à prática”, Public Policy Portuguese Journal, Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 7 – 11.

2019 – “Exploring socioeconomic and mental health trajectories during times of economic recession: a qualitative study with primary health care users and professionals”, Journal of Mental Health, Ana Antunes, Diana Frasquilho, Joana Rocha Zózimo, Manuela Silva, Graça Cardoso, João Ferrão & José Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida, DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2019.1581343

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