JOÃO FERRÃO

 

João is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Univeristy of Lisbon (ICS-UL) where he is the coordinator of the Research Group on “Environment, Territory and Society” and pro--rector of ICS-ULisboa. He holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Lisbon. He was a Professor of Geography in the Faculty of Humanities University of Lisbon (1976-95) and the University of Atlântica (1996-2000).

​

João has been the President of APDR- the Portuguese Association for Regional Development (1987-1990),  Secretary of State for Spatial Planning and Cities (2005-9) and a member of the Portuguese Scientific Council for the Social Sciences and Humanities (CCCSH-FCT). He has been the national coordinator of several international networks under different EU and Latin American funding programmes.

 

He has been involved in various activities as a consultant on economic and social geography and on regional and urban development. He advised the OECD (Rural Development Programme in 1993) and coordinated various public policy assessment studies for the Portuguese Government and European Commission, including of the II and III EU Framework Programmes (Portugal).

​

​João has published many articles in national and international journals and various books on geography, territorial planning and local and regional development policies.