Viriato Soromenho-Marques

Permanent Member

Class
Letters

Section
7th Section | Social and Political Sciences

Election

19.03.2008 (Corresponding Member)
03.05.2022 (Permanent Member)

Contact

viriatosmarques [at] netcabo.pt

Areas of Interest

Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Nature and the Environment; Contemporary Federalism (USA and European Integration); International Relations; Strategy and Military History

Hyperlinks
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4986-2045
www.viriatosoromenho-marques.com https://Viriato-Soromenho-Marques-Curriculum-vitae-breve.pdf

Profile

Viriato Soromenho Marques was born in Setúbal on 9 December 1957. He is a philosopher, professor, and environmentalist. He graduated in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon (1979), obtained a master’s degree in Contemporary Philosophy from the Nova University of Lisbon (1985), with a thesis on nihilism in Nietzsche, and earned a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon (1991), with the dissertation Reason and Progress in Kant’s Philosophy.

A Full Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon since 2003, he has taught History and Culture of Philosophy, Political and Legal Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, History of Ideas in Contemporary Europe, and Environment in Europe. He coordinated the Master’s programme in Philosophy of Nature and Environment (1995-1996) and was one of the founders of the Doctoral Programme in Climate Change and Sustainable Development (2009). He has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities across Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

His academic involvement extends beyond teaching. He has been a member of several scientific organisations, including the Portuguese Society of Philosophy, the International Society for Ecological Economics, and the American Political Science Association. He served as Portugal’s representative for the German environmental studies organisation Ecologic and has contributed extensively to environmental policy. From 1992 to 1995, he was president of QUERCUS, Portugal’s most significant environmental organisation, and in 2016, he co-founded ZERO.

Viriato Soromenho-Marques has held advisory roles in national and international institutions. He represented environmental NGOs at Portugal’s Economic and Social Council (1992-1996), participated in the National UNESCO Commission, and served on Lisbon’s Strategic Plan Council. He was part of Portugal’s delegation to the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg and advised the European Commission’s High-Level Group on Energy and Climate Change (2007-2010). He was a key figure in drafting Portugal’s National Strategy for Sustainable Development.

He authored around 400 academic studies and numerous books on philosophy, political strategy, and environmental issues. His main publications include Europa: O Risco do Futuro (1985), O Futuro Frágil: Os Desafios da Crise Global do Ambiente (1998), and Depois da Queda: A União Europeia entre o Reerguer e a Fragmentação (2019). He has received numerous accolades, including the Grand Officer of the Order of Infante D. Henrique (2006) and the Leaders of the Decade in Sustainable Development award (2019).