Dr. Kang Soon Won - Republic of Korea Professor in the department of Psychol-ogy and Child, Hanshin University, South Korea, teaching GCED and University, Youth education and Child rights and welfare, and lifelong education. She is presently involved in the researches

such as Peace education in Northern Ireland beyond divi-sion, Reconceptualization of education for international un-derstanding, and Osan city remodeling according to the child-friendly city concept of UNICEF. She obtained her Ph.D at Ewha Woman’s University, South Korea. She was dean of the Graduate School of Education, Hanshin University, a mem-ber of international advisory committee of UNESCO APCEIU. A member of the presidential Advisory Committee of Educa-tion during the Kim Daejung government 1998-2002 in South Korea, president of Korean Society of Education for International Understanding, and now president of Conflict resolution and Dialogue (NGO).

Jesús Redondo– Chile Psychologist, pedagogue and PhD in Philosophy and Education Sciences from the University of Deusto, Spain (1994). He has been the Academic Di-rector of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Chile and for six years Director of the Department of

Psychology, Coordinator of the PhD Program in Psychology (2010-2014). Member of the Management Committee of CLACSO for six years, as well as the Institutional Commis-sion of Education and the Management and Monitoring Committee of the Bicentennial Project of the University of Chile. Coordinates the Educational Psychology Department of the Department of Psychology of the FACSO, University of Chile. Researcher of the Chilean Observatory of Educa-tional Policies OPECH and Coordinator of the Program PI-EES (Research in Equity in Higher Education). Leads the EPE Program: Network of Psychology, Education and Society Teams. He is a specialist in Educational Psychology and Social Pedagogy.

Presenters

Cecilia Barbieri, Director a.i. OREALC/UNESCO Santiago Senior Education Specialist at the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Educa-tion in Latin America and the Caribbe-an (OREALC), located in Santiago (Chile). She worked as Education Spe-

cialist with UNESCO since 1999, in Zambia, Indonesia, Unit-ed Republic of Tanzania, India and Namibia, and with pri-vate and public companies providing technical and voca-tional training and institutional capacity building before joining OREALC/UNESCO Santiago. Cecilia has been in-volved for more than 15 years in the field of peace, human rights and intercultural education with an international NGO. A social science graduate from the University of Bolo-gna, Italy, she further specialized in sociology of education and international humanitarian law in Belgium and Italy. She has been appointed Director a.i. at UNESCO Santiago on December 01, 2017.

Dr. Chung Utak, Director of APCEIU Chung Utak is currently the Direc-tor of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Cen-tre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), a UNESCO Category 2 Centre based in Seoul, the Republic of Korea. Prior to being inaugurated as

APCEIU’s Director, he served as Assistant Secretary General and Director of Strategic Programs Divisions at the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, where he started his professional career in 1982. Additionally, he was an Associ-ate Expert for the International Commission on Education for the Twenty First Century of UNESCO Headquarters from 1993 to 1995, and served as a Visiting Scholar at Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, Uni-versity of California, San Diego from 2000 to 2002. His teaching career also includes his work as Adjunct Professor at Graduate Schools of International Studies at Sogang Uni-versity (2002-2012) and Sookmyung Women’s University (2009-2012) in Seoul, the Republic of Korea. His academic focus was on International Organizations, Official Develop-ment Assistance (ODA) and Education for International Un-derstanding and Global Citizenship Education. He holds PH.D in Political Science from Sogang University, Republic of Korea.

Panelists Anabel Mitjans Alayón (Logbona Olu-konee) - Cuba Anabel Mitjans Alayón is a doctoral stu-dent in the Feminist Research and Inter-vention Program at the Centro de Estudi-os Superiores de México y Centroaméri-ca (CESMECA) at Universidad de Ciencias

y Artes de Chiapas (UNICACH). She is conducting research and interventions on feminism of sexual dissidence in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. She is a queer, Afro-Cuban and black feminist activist. She was a Cuban History profes-sor at Universidad Agraria de la Habana (UNAH) in the Cuban province of Mayabeque for six years. During that time, she also developed various queer and anti-racist activism pro-jects in Havana (Cuba). She has formed part of the collective AfroKute since 2016, in which she has helped to develop a feminist corporeal expression workshop called “Descolonizando Las Caderas (Decolonizing Hips).” In collab-oration with other collectives, she served as the coordinator of the Jornadas Internacionales Lesbotransfeministas, which took place at Kinal Antsektik in San Cristóbal de las Casas.

Luz Jiménez Quispe - Bolivia Aymara academic, activist for cultural and linguistic diversity, mathematician and anthropologist. She has a great deal of experience in teacher training and research on educational, cultural and sociolinguistic topics. She is currently the

Rector of Universidad Pedagógica de Postgrado de Bolivia (UP), an institution focused exclusively on the graduate-level training of teachers from throughout Bolivia’s plurinational education system. The university also develops research that contributes to addressing challenges in the field of educa-tion.

Ligna Pulido—Colombia Expert on indigenous peoples, human rights and international cooperation. She studied at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain. Member of the Nasa indigenous group, she has worked in the area of inter-national cooperation in municipalities and

Afro-Colombian organizations, on territorial planning for municipalities with indigenous administration, in the Secre-taria Técnica Operativa de Tierras of the Asociación de Ca-bildos Indígenas del Norte del Cauca (ACIN), as National Technical Secretary of the Plan de Salvaguarda del Pueblo Nasa, the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) and on the design and coordination of public policy from the diverse perspective for indigenous peoples. Ligna has been a member of the Community Council of Women of Santander de Quilichao, an advisor for the revitalization of the Nasa Project Life Plan, and Director of the “Nasa Üus” (Nasa Heart) Corporation. She is currently supporting the strength-ening of indigenous and Afro-descendant communities through the Inclusion for Peace Program at the International Organization for Migrations (OIM).

Vicenta Moreno Hurtado - Colombia Vicenta Moreno Hurtado holds an under-graduate degree in Arts Education special-izing in Socio-cultural Animation and is a candidate for a master’s degree in Popular Education and Community Work (Universidad del Valle). She is an Afro-descendant activist and works as the Gen-

eral Coordinator of Casa Cultural El Chontaduro in the Agua-blanca district of Cali, Colombia. She is part of the Grupo de Investigación Interseccionalidades, affiliated with the Centro de Estudio Afrodiaspórico at Universidad Icesi (CEAF). She has conducted research on violence in the Aguablanca dis-trict and has participated as a speaker in various community and university events in Colombia, Germany and Switzer-land. She compiled the book Eco Palabras de Mujeres by the Casa Cultural El Chontaduro Women’s Group, an association that has consistently worked to build territories with spatial justice considering de-colonial perspectives with ethno-racial and gender approaches. This association works on four lines of action: childhood and youth, gender, research, and organ-ization and management.

Javier Estrada - Guatemala Born in Guatemala City, Javier Estrada is a journalist and social communicator. He worked at the newspaper La Hora as a jour-nalist, editor and assistant director for ten years. In September 2016, he joined Nóma-

da.gt, a digital medium that supports equality, transparency, investigation and feminism, as a senior journalist. He held a Cosecha Roja scholarship and is passionate about research for social change.

Rubneuza Leandro de Souza - Brasil Member of the Landless Workers’ Move-ment (MST), sheworks as a coordinator in the education sector. She holds a master’s degree from Universidade Federal de Per-nambuco and is a specialist on Rural Edu-cation and Development with a degree

from Universidade de Brasília (UNB) and on Labor, Education and Social Movements, having studied at the Escuela Politécnica Joaquim Venâncio (Fiocruz). She graduated with a degree in Pedagogy from Universidade Regional do Noro-este do Estado de Rio Grande do Sul (UNIJUÌ). She is a mem-ber of the Pernambuco Rural Education Committee. The Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) is a movement that fights for land and agrarian reform. It is a grassroots, union-based and political organization, and has a presence in 24 states in the five regions of Brazil. Nearly 350,000 families have fought to take over land and organize rural workers.

Marcelo Rodrigo Pérez Pérez - Chile Philosophy professor who holds an un-dergraduate degree in Education and a master’s degree in Education with a fo-cus on Curriculum and Educational Com-munity. He serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Education of the

Universidad de Chile School of Social Sciences specializing in Philosophy and Epistemology of the Social Sciences. He re-searches citizen formation phenomena and processes, the construction of political subjectivities and childhood.

Vernor Muñoz– Costa Rica Works in the fields of education and hu-man rights, combining functions in the public sector, non-governmental organi-zations, university teaching and writing. He was Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the Right to Education (2004-

2010) and global education consultant of Plan International. He coordinated the PhD program in Latin American Studies at the National University of Costa Rica, where he served as an academic in the Master's Degree in Human Rights and Educa-tion for Peace. He is currently a member of the Steering Com-mittee of the Regional Fund for Civil Society for Education, chief of policies and advocacy of the Global Campaign for Education, of which he was a member of the board of direc-tors, and a member of the University Council of the State Distance University from Costa Rica. He studied literature and is a lawyer specialized in human rights, a philosopher and doctor of education with an emphasis on mediation.

Néstor López - Argentina Sociologist, holds a degree from Univer-sidad de Buenos Aires. He serves as the Education and Equity Project Coordina-tor at IIPE-UNESCO Buenos Aires and as Coordinator of SITEAL, the Information System on Educational Trends in Latin America. IIPE-UNESCO

Buenos Aires has developed specific knowledge on Latin American education systems. He previously worked at UNICEF Argentina as Project Coordinator and as a consultant with several national and international agencies on topics related to labor market analysis, living conditions and educa-tion. His teaching experience is focused on graduate training, and he has offered classes at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad de Cuyo and FLACSO Argentina and has been a guest lecturer at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. His work is focused on the study of social structure in the Latin American region. He has published various studies on social dynamics and education.

José Luis Gutiérrez Espíndola - México Holds a degree in Journalism and Collec-tive Communication from the UNAM School of the Political and Social Sciences and has 30 years of experience in public administration. He also holds a master’s degree in the Communication Sciences (FCPS-UNAM), a certificate in Values Edu-

cation from the Mexican Association for the United Nations, and a master’s degree in Human Rights, Rule of Law and Democracy in Ibero-America from Universidad de Alcalá. He was the Director General of Education for los Human Rights and Executive Secretary of the Federal District Human Rights Commission (2010-2013). As a consultant, he devel-oped the following projects for the National Institute for Educational Evaluation (INEE): “Framework of reference and design of a strategy for promoting a culture of educa-tional evaluation” and “Framework of reference and pro-posal of indicators on coexistence and violence in the school environment.” INEE evaluates the quality, perfor-mance and results of Mexico’s national education system as they pertain to the mandatory education cycle.

Maria Rosa Goldar - Argentina Popular Educator and member of the Ecumenical Association of Cuyo / FEC (Mendoza, Argentina) and of the Coun-cil of Popular Education of Latin Ameri-ca and the Caribbean (CEAAL). She is a professor and researcher at the Uni-

versidad Nacional de Cuyo, and holds the Chair of Commu-nity Social Work from the Faculty of Political and Social Sci-ences. She has a master's degree in Political Science and Sociology (FLACSO) and ocial Work (UNCuyo). As a popular educator her main field of action has been training and ac-company in popular education processes, from the gender perspective, to organizational processes with women from popular sectors and, in recent years, gender and diversities with the collective LGTBBI. She has facilitated processes of systematization of experiences and popular organizations in social economy. In addition, as a researcher she has devel-oped an analytical understanding of the link between popu-lar education, social movements and emancipatory per-spectives.

Sara Robles - Chile National Spokesperson for the Coordi-nating Assembly of Secondary Students.

Panelists Cristian Cox - Chile Cristian Cox earned his doctorate in Sociol-ogy from University of London in 1984. He is the Director of the Universidad Diego Portales Center for Comparative Education Policies in Santiago de Chile. He served as Dean of the Universidad Católica de Chile,

School of Education and Director of the Ministry of Educa-tion’s Curriculum and Assessment Unit (1998-2006), where he oversaw the design and implementation of the curriculum reform of the Chilean school system in the late 1990s. He headed the Technical Secretariat of the Regional Strategy on Teachers of the Regional Bureau of Education for Latin Amer-ica and the Caribbean (OREALC/UNESCO Santiago) since 2010. Cristian also has been a visiting professor at Stanford and Leiden Universities and has published broadly on educa-tional policy, curriculum, and teacher training and citizenship education.

Junior Pierre-Louis—Haití Junior Pierre-Louis works at PANOS Carib-bean as a Finance and Administration Official. He is committed to defending the cause of minorities who live without rights. Working with PANOS Caribbean

allows him to participate the struggle of amplifying the voic-es of the poor and marginalized through their inclusion in the media and public and political debates. Pierre-Louis also has served as President of IMPACT Club-Toastmasters, where he mentored children between the ages of 10 and 18. In this role, he provided guidance to young people on how to live a successful life and avoid violent and illegal activities. He holds a B.S. in Accounting.

Angelique Nixon - Trinidad y Tobago Born in the Bahamas, Angelique Nixon is a writer, artist and academic based in Trinidad. Professor and researcher at the Institute for Gender and Develop-ment Studies at the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine, Trinidad

and Tobago), where she coordinates the Graduate Studies Program and is lead researcher on a three-year project on human rights entitled “A Sexual Culture of Justice” in collab-oration with community organizations. She holds a doctor-ate in English with a focus on Caribbean literature, postcolo-nial studies, women’s studies and gender studies from Uni-versity of Florida (2008), completed a postdoctoral fellow-ship in African Studies at New York University (2009) and held a Fulbright for Teaching and Research in Trinidad (2014). She serves on the Gender and Sex Justice Panel in Trinidad and Tobago (CAISO), and is co-President of the In-ternational Resources Network (IRN) of the Caribbean, an organization that connects activists, researchers and artists who work on diverse genders and sexualities.

Luis Osandón- Chile Doctor of Education Sciences from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Bachelor of History and Professor of His-tory and Geography. He is currently an academic at the Department of Pedagogi-

cal Studies at the University of Chile. His areas of interest include; policies around school curriculum, and the didactics of social sciences and citizenship education. He is currently part of the Study Group on Citizenship and Education of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Chile and the Group of Thematic Research on Curriculum of the University of Christian Humanism. In 2015 he was Aca-demic Coordinator of the Citizenship Training Course for the School of Today, funded by the Ministry of Education of Chile, which involved more than 1,500 managers and teach-ers nationwide.

Jimmy Kazaara Tindigarukayo - Jamaica Senior Researcher at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies. He has taught at the Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, University of Guyana and Memorial

University Terranova in Canada. He holds a doctorate in Po-litical Science from Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada). His research interests include public sector reform, monitor-ing and evaluation, and housing in developing nations. He has published several books and articles on topics such as governance and political participation, public service reform, youth and family in Jamaica.

Marcelo Trivelli - Chile Holds a degree in Civil-Industrial Engi-neering from Universidad de Chile and an MBA from University of California at Berkeley. In 2003, he founded Fundación Semilla, an NGO focused on young peo-ple. Over the past ten years, over six

thousand young people have participated in leadership work-shops in such diverse areas as non-violence, culture, sustain-ability and community. Trivelli serves as the Director of Fundación Tacal, an NGO focused on training and labor inclu-sion for individuals with disabilities. He is also the Director of a park that is designed to preserve native forests in southern Chile. He has been active in public service. Following the 1990 return to democracy in Chile, he served as advisor to the President and in 2002 was elected Governor of the Met-ropolitan Region where Santiago, Chile’s capital, is located.

Rosita Inés Ángelo - Uruguay National Director of Education of Uruguay’s Ministry of Education and Culture. She is a history teacher who holds a master’s de-gree in Education and is a candidate for the master’s degree in University Teaching from the Sectorial Teaching Commission of

Universidad de la República (UDELAR). She completed the XVII Regional Course on Education Policy Formulation and Planning offered by IIPE-UNESCO Buenos Aires and the Uni-versity Expert Course on Education Administration through Universidad de Educación a Distancia (UNED, Spain). She has a long history of work in the field of education management with the National Administration of Public Education (ANEP), where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses. She has served as the Director of the Regional Teachers’ Center (Florida), coordinating teacher training and technology pro-jects, and was the Director of the Education Planning Division until 2015.

Ximena Erazo - Chile Architect who holds a master’s degree in Regional Urban Development from Uni-versidad Católica de Chile. She is the Pres-ident of the Henry Dunant Foundation Latin America (2006-) and served as a Senior Analyst for the Ministry of the

Secretariat General of the Presidency of Chile (1997-2010). Erazo was a member of the Board of Directors of Univer-sidad Arturo Prat on behalf of President Michelle Bachelet (2007-2010) and was co-President of Collège Universitaire Henry Dunant (Geneva, 2000-2010) and Secretary General and Associate Secretary for Latin America and the Caribbean of the World University Service (WUS-International, 1987-1997, Geneva). She served as Vice President of the Interna-tional Council for Voluntary Agencies (ICVA, Geneva) from 1990 to 1997.

Group Leaders Zelmira May - Uruguay Responsible for programs on Education in Science and Risk Management at UNESCO’s Montevideo Office. She is an agricultural engineer with a degree from Universidad de la República (UDELAR) in Uruguay and holds a master’s degree in

Water and Environmental Management from the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) at Loughbor-ough University in the United Kingdom.

Mariana Alcalay Cors - Brazil Graduated from Universidade de Brasília with a degree in International Relations and holds a master’s degree in Human Rights from the European Master’s Pro-gramme in Human Rights and Democra-tisation (EIUC-E-MA). She completed a specialization course in humanitarian

assistance and international peacekeeping at the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPT). She has over 15 years of experience working on topics related to human rights and education in UN agencies and other inter-national organizations in Brazil, Ivory Coast and Venezuela. She is currently Project Officer in the Education Unit at UNESCO’s Brasilia Office and is responsible for Education for Sustainable Development and Education Projects with the Brazilian government.

Daniela Bruni - Haití Education Specialist at the UNESCO Office in Port au Prince, Haiti. Daniela has worked for the United Nations since 1992 in Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean. She has for-mulated, monitored and evaluated pro-jects and programs in over 20 countries. She worked as an Education Specialist in

the UNESCO Regional Bureau of Education in Senegal (BREDA), as a Gender Specialist in Venezuela and Colombia, as Chief of the Regional Vocational Education and Training Department of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo and in the Education and Development Section of the United Na-tions Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters in Rome. Her main areas of work are education and sustain-able development, education system reform (with a special focus on post-conflict and transition periods), education of girls and women, vocational and technical education and training, and higher education. Daniela holds two University Degrees one in Foreign Literatures and Education (University of Urbino, Italy) and the other in Sociology (University of Urbino, Italy).