José Pacheco Pereira

He was born in Porto in 1949. He took part in the struggle against the dictatorship before 25 April. He taught at various levels of education. He was a member of the Assembleia da República and the European Parliament, and a leader of the PSD. He has published more than a dozen books on history and politics. He regularly contributes to the press, radio and television. He is the creator of the TVI 24 programme “EPHEMERA”, was the creator of the SICN programme “Ponto Contraponto”, and is a panellist on Portugal's longest-running political debate programme, currently “Princípio na Incerteza”, on CNN Portugal and TSF, previously Circulatura do Quadrado and Quadratura do Círculo. He is the author of the blogs Abrupto, Estudos sobre o Comunismo and Ephemera.

Member of the Academia de Ciências, Classe de Letras.

Honorary doctorate from the Universidade de Lisboa.

He has long been dedicated to preserving books, periodicals, documents and objects connected with the memory of contemporary Portuguese history. He founded and maintains the Arquivo / Biblioteca Ephemera, Portugal's largest private archive.