Eugénia Maria de Carvalho Fernandes Pires

Economist/Researcher

CoLABOR – Laboratório Colaborativo para o Trabalho, Emprego e Protecção Social/ Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection

Lisbon/Portugal

Eugénia Maria de Carvalho Fernandes Pires is a researcher at CoLABOR, the portuguese Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection based in Lisbon. With a degree in Economics, she has specialised in public debt, finance and development, with a Msc on Finance and Development at SOAS (UK). Her recent project is focused on the impacts of digital technology upon labour and employment, labour process and value-chains. At the same time, she is a fully engaged activist on the impact of financialization and debt related issues, in particular the urgent need for citizens debt audits and sovereign debt restructuring mechanisms led by the debtor, respecting democracy and human-rights, while co-share responsibility between the sovereign and it official and non-official creditors.