António Costa Pinto is a research professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon and a Professor of Politics at Lusófona University, Portugal. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and Georgetown University, USA, a Senior Associate Member at St Anthony's College, Oxford, UK, and a Senior Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His research interests include authoritarianism, political elites, democratization, and transitional justice in new democracies.