Jorge Vala (born 1947),[1] PhD in social psychology, University of Louvain,[2] was a full professor at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, and is currently a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS)/University of Lisbon.
His present projects articulate these processes with the study of racism and prejudice, immigration issues, political attitudes, social justice, and validation of everyday knowledge.
He was the Portuguese representative on the European Programme COST, as well as president of the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at ISCTE.
He is also member of the Scientific Board of the Fondation Suisse pour la Recherche en Sciences Sociales (FORS).
Between May 2007 and September 2009, he chaired the ICS Academic Board; and he was its Director from 2010 till 2014.