Departments
Rui Esgaio
President's Office / Secretary of the Board
João Coelho
Accounts
Elisabete Caramelo
Communication
Alasdair Mackhintosh
Finance and Investment
João Castel-Branco Pereira
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Cristina Pires
Budget and Planning Control
João Pedro Garcia
Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian / International Department
João Caraça
Science
He is Director of the Science Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon. João Caraça is also Full Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão of the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. He was coordinator of the M.Sc. Course in the Economics and Management of Science and Technology from 1990 to 2003.
He is member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology – EIT. He also integrates the Steering Group of the European Forum on Philanthropy and Research Funding and is President of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Business Association for Innovation – COTEC.
João Caraça was Science Adviser of the President of the Portuguese Republic (1996-2006) and has published over 150 scientific papers. His main interests are science and technology policy and prospective studies. He authored Do Saber ao Fazer: porquê organizar a ciência (1993), Ciência (1997), Science et Communication (1999), Entre a Ciência e a Consciência (2002) and À Procura do Portugal Moderno (2003). He also co-authored Limits to Competition (1995), co-edited O Futuro Tecnológico (1999) and collaborated in Le Printemps du Politique (2007).
António Coutinho
Gulbenkian Science Institute
António Repolho Correia
Central Services
Ana Rijo da Silva
Human Resources
Manuel Carmelo Rosa
Education and Grants
Manuel da Costa Cabral
Fine Arts
José Afonso Furtado
Art Library
Zaven Yegavian
Armenian Communities
Since 1985 Zaven Yegavian is the Director of the Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. A linguist and an expert in oriental languages and culture he attended the University of Paris and the State University in Yerevan (Armenia) having obtained a degree in Humanities.
Professor in the University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle in applied linguistics.
Director of the Marie Nubar Foundation of CIUP (Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris).
Author of articles and books dedicated to bilingual and semantics issues.
Member of the Superior Council for Education in the Armenian Diaspora (Antelias – Lebanon).
Doctor Honoris Causa of the State University of Yerevan and of the National Academy of Sciences of the Armenian Republic.
Member of the Social Science Academy of Russia.
Awarded various commendations i.e.: Knight of the Order of Merit (France), Order of Moses of Khorene (Armenia), Commendatory of the Order of St. Sylvester (Vatican) and of the Order of the Prince of Cilicia (Lebanon).
Andrew Barnett
UK Branch
Andrew Barnett has been Director of the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation since September 2007. He is also a board member of Yorkshire Metropolitan Housing and a Trustee of Addaction, the UK’s largest drug and alcohol misuse charity.
Barnett joined the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation where he held the post of Director of Policy Development and Communications. Prior to this, he was Director of Communications at the UK Sports Council and Head of Public Affairs at the National Consumer Council. He previously held posts at HSBC Holdings, the Arts Council of England, and the Foyer Federation for Youth, as well as working for the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homelessness and Housing Need. He has served, in a voluntary capacity, as Chair of the Trustees of SPACE Studios, a London-based arts property charity, and as a Director and Trustee of St Christopher's Fellowship, a housing association providing care and support to disadvantaged young people.
Born in New South Wales, Australia, Barnett was educated at King’s School, Bruton in Somerset, and St Andrews University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an enthusiast for contemporary abstract and Aboriginal art.
Isabel Carlos
Modern Art Centre
Risto Nieminen
Music
Jorge Soares
Health and Human Development