Raquel Vaz-Pinto is a Researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI) at NOVA University Lisbon and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the same university, where she teaches Asian Studies and History of International Relations.

She served as President of the Portuguese Political Science Association from 2012 to 2016 and was an advisor to the Board of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from 2020 to 2022.

Author of several articles and books, including “The Portuguese and the World”, published by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, and “The Great Wall and the Legacy of Tiananmen: China and Human Rights”, published by Tinta-da-china, as well as the introduction to the new translation of “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell, published by Penguin.

Her research interests include Chinese Foreign Policy and Strategy, the US and the Indo-Pacific, and Leadership and Strategy.

In the podcast world, she co-hosted two seasons of “[In] Pertinente – Política”, by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, alongside Pedro Vieira, and most recently, As “Amigas de Eleanor”, produced by the Luso-American Development Foundation — a live-recorded podcast on extraordinary women, centered on the figure of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Currently, she is the resident international politics Analyst at SIC Notícias.