Author of The B Side of Europe: a journey to the 28 capital cities (Tinta-da-china, 2019), Bernardo is also an associate fellow at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations and foreign affairs analyst for RTP, Antena 1 and Diário de Notícias. He was previously a non-resident fellow at SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, a MMF Fellow with the German Marshall Fund and an associate fellow with the Portuguese National Defense Institute.