Adelino Torres

Full Professor of Economics at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Starting in 1949, he lived for several years in Angola, where he associated with Mário António, Aquino de Bragança, Mário Pinto de Andrade, and António Carreira, among others. He was an editor for the newspaper ABC-Diário de Angola in 1961. His poems appear in Cultura II (Luanda, 1959) and in Força Nova (an anthology of poetry by Angolan students, Luanda, 1961). During the same period, he served as secretary-general of the Sociedade Cultural de Angola (SCA), then chaired by Dr. Eugénio Ferreira, which published the journal Cultura. He obtained his undergraduate and master's degrees from the Sorbonne in Paris, and earned his doctorate in Economics at ISEG, where he has taught since 1976. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Rennes I since 1994. He has published studies in journals such as Esprit (Paris), NRF-Nouvelle Revue Française (Paris), Economie et Humanisme (Lyon), Estudos de Economia, Análise Social, African Economic History (Wisconsin), Estratégia (Lisboa), Nação e Defesa (Lisboa), Studia Africana (Barcelona), Cadernos de Economia (Lisboa), and Estudos Afro-Asiáticos (Rio de Janeiro). He has contributed to several Portuguese and French collective works. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Episteme (2nd series, 2000–) at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.