Gustavo Cardoso is Full Professor of Sociology of Communication at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and a researcher at CIES. He is also an associate researcher at CADIS (Center d'Analyze et d'Interventions Sociologiques) in Paris and Director of OberCom - Observatório dos Meios de Comunicação Social in Lisbon. He is currently the director of the PhD in Communication Sciences and of three post-graduate programs in Communication at ISCTE-IUL, namely the Post-Graduate program in Journalism, the Post-Graduate program in Factchecking and disinformation, and the Post-Graduate program in Communication and Politics.  From 1996 to 2006, he was advisor to the President of the Portuguese Republic, Jorge Sampaio, for Information Society and Telecommunications policy. From 2006-2012, he was non-executive Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese news agency Lusa. In 2006 he was awarded the degree of "Grande Oficial da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique" for relevant services rendered to Portugal. In 2009 he was elected as Young Global Leader of the WEF and in 2018 he was proposed to be a member of the Academia Europaea where he holds the position of member of the Cinema, media and visual studies section. He has a degree in Business Organization and Management, a Master in European Studies and a PhD in Sociology of Communication. He also holds a specialization in "Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century" from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Journalist and specialist in digital communication, he is the director of Cenjor - the Portuguese Journalists' Training Centre. He is doing a PhD in Communication Sciences and has a Master in Communication, Culture and Information Technology from ISCTE-IUL. He is an assistant researcher at CIES-IUL and in Obercom, was the coordinator of the Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism ISCTE-IUL / Media Capital between 2013 and 2018 and of the MsC in New Media Management. He is a lecturer at ISCTE-IUL, at the post-graduation in Digital Marketing at IPAM, and a trainer since 2001. He was a journalist in several national newspapers and editor-in-chief, editorial director, and publisher of several magazines and online projects. He has received a dozen national and international awards with online and multimedia projects.