José Lima Santos
BSc in Agricultural Sciences by the High Institute of Agronomy (ISA – Instituto Superior de Agronomia),
Lisbon.
PhD by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Is professor at ISA of the University of Lisbon, and member of the board of this university.
Teaching and research focused on agricultural, environmental and resource economics, as well as public
policies for agriculture, forests and the environment, with many publications in this area.
Helped organizing many national and international events, such as OECD seminars on the economic
valuation of biodiversity and multifunctionality of agriculture. Was commissioner of the Gulbenkian
cycle of conferences on the Future of Food during 2012.
Was director-general at the Portuguese agricultural ministry during the negotiations of the 2003 CAP
reform and thus participated in these negotiations at the highest technical-political level.
Is involved in the coordination, teaching and thesis supervision in two PhD interdisciplinary and interuniversity programmes in the area of sustainability – the programme in Climate Change and Sustainable
Development Policies and that in Interdisciplinary Landscape Management.