Henrique Mota is the founder and publisher of Princípia Editora in Portugal. After studying Law at the Portuguese Catholic University and International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, he followed an academic career and a journalistic one. In 1997, Henrique Mota founded Princípia, at first an academic publishing house, which now has six imprints, covering nonacademic genres as well. Between 2016 and 2018 he was the president of the Federation of European Publishers, having multiple initiatives in defending the freedom of publishing and enforcing the copyright law.
