M. Joao GOMES CRAVINHO

João Gomes Cravinho, born in 1964, is married and has two children. He graduated and did his MSc at the London School of Economics and holds a PhD from Oxford University. He has served as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economy, Columbia University, teaching International Relations and coordinating the doctoral program International Politics and Conflict Resolution. He was also guest lecturer at ISCTE and Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Mr. Cravinho’s doctoral dissertation focused on Mozambique, and he has published extensively in Portuguese and foreign journals – United Kingdom, France and Spain.
Besides several articles in specialized journals, his most important publication in the area of International Relations is “Visões do Mundo” published in 2002 and written mainly while Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University, in Washington. In addition to his academic career,
Mr. Cravinho has devoted several years of his activity to the area of Development Cooperation. In 1999 he coordinated the interministerial report of the Portuguese Government concerning assistance to East Timor; in 2000 he worked with the Portuguese presidency of the European Union and from January 2001 to June 2002 he was president of the Institute for Portuguese Cooperation. Among other activities he has been consultant in national (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian) and international (European Commission and World Bank) institutions.