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Rui Manuel Monteiro Lopes Ramos (born in 1962 in Torres Vedras) is a Portuguese history lecturer and researcher. He is a co-founder [1] and member of the Board of Directors of the online newspaper Observador. In 2013, he was awarded the Ordem do Infante D. Henrique. [2]
Rui Ramos graduated in history from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) in 1985, where he had a brief stint as a trainee assistant. He was also a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the New University of Lisbon (1998–2001) and then at the Institute of Political Studies of the Portuguese Catholic University (since 2001). At the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL), he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Scientific Council (2001–2004), a member of the Postgraduate Committee (1998–2000) and a member of the editorial board of the journal Análise Social (2003–2004). As a historian, he has specialised in the history of Portugal in the 19th and 20th centuries, mainly studying political and cultural aspects. In particular, he has dedicated himself to researching the period at the end of the constitutional monarchy and the First Republic. He is also an expert in the history of political ideas of 19th and 20th centuries in Europe. He received his PhD in Political Science from Oxford University in 1997. He is the author of dozens of articles published in Portuguese and foreign scientific journals, and several books, including "A Segunda Fundação" (The Second Foundation), 1994, Volume VI of the History of Portugal directed by José Mattoso, "João Franco e o Fracasso do Reformismo Liberal" (João Franco and the Failure of Liberal Reformism), 2001, and the Biography of King Carlos I of Portugal, in the Kings of Portugal series, 2006. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the online newspaper Observador where he has collaborated in several radio programs. In the press, he had a weekly column in Diário Económico (2005), and then in Público (2006–2009), Correio da Manhã (2009) and Expresso (2010–2013). He contributed to weekly debate programmes on RTP-N, TVI24, SIC Notícias and Canal Q, and was the author of the 12-part series "Portugal de..." on RTP1 (2006–2007). [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
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