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Alexandra Aragão has a PhD in Legal and Political Science and is Professor at the Law Faculty – University of Coimbra (UC) where she teaches environmental law, ecoliteracy, risk governance, food security law and forest law. Vice-director of the “Planning law, urban law and environmental law journal”. Member of several observatories, research groups and academic organizations in Portugal, Brazil and at European level. She coordinates an interdisciplinary network on Territorial Justice and Sustainability through spatial data infrastructures (JUST-Side, 10 countries). In 2019 she won the pedagogic innovation prize of the UC. Her research interests are: responsible research and innovation, ecosystem services and Earth System law in the Anthropocene.

Rector of Centro Universitário Augusto Motta – Unisuam, since 2008. Vice President of the Education Council at Association Commercial of Rio de Janeiro – ACRJ. Current President of the Rio de Janeiro University Channel – UTV. President of the Rotary Club Rio de Janeiro Bonsucesso. Business administrator with over 10 years of experience in educational management, responsible for the financial and academic restructuring of Unisuam. Member of the Management Committee of STHEM Brasil.

Vice Rector of the University of Coimbra. Pharmacist, Master in Cell Biology and PhD in Pharmacology. Since 2002, she has been an Auxiliary Professor, with permanent contract, at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra and Leader of the Group of “Neuroendocrinology and Aging” at CNC – Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology. She was the principal investigator for 9 funded projects. She was Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Coimbra. Since 2013, she has been Vice President of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology.

Educational Innovation and Digital Learning Director, responsible for promoting institutional initiatives for educational innovation, as well as managing the digital platform educational offer. For 30 years, she has been coordinating the design and implementation of different models for high school, professional, postgraduate, and executive education. She has been a consultant and member of several committees at the international level to define new models of digital education. She has been a promoter of projects to implement virtual reality, adaptive learning, micro credentials, MOOCs, use of holograms and spaces with technology, among others.

Director of Innovation with Educational Technology at Tecnológico de Monterrey. His department has the role to improve learning experiences through experimentation with emerging technologies, among which are: virtual reality, internet of things, artificial intelligence, blockchain and telepresence. He teaches in the Department of Physics and previously has served as Director of the Center for Faculty Development and Educational Innovation.

Biologist, Full Professor at the Life Sciences Department , University of Coimbra. Develops research at CNC – Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, in Reproduction Biology and Stem Cells group. Has published more than 145 original scientific articles, having supervised more than 20 PhDs. Coordinated two Doctoral Programs and has additional training in Bioethics, Science Communication and Narrative Medicine. Author of several works on science communication, in different formats, as well as science-themed fiction, including several works using comics.

Vice Rector – Continuing Education – Tecnológico de Monterrey

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Master in Educational Sciences from the University of Porto (Portugal). Founder of Escola da Ponte, in Portugal, a world reference in innovation. He coordinated the project “Escola a Ponte”, from 1976 to 2004, a project awarded with the 1st Prize of the “Contest Innovative Experiences in Teaching”, promoted by the Ministry of Education. He was a member of the National Council of Education. In 2005 he took up residence in Brazil. Since then, he has traveled throughout the country, mobilizing educators who believe in transformative and democratic education. He has followed numerous projects for new education, including em Amorim Lima (SP), EE Campos Sales (SP), Projeto Âncora (SP), and CAP (DF) At IBICT (Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology), in the framework of Project Brasília 2060 – Strategic Plan for a Sustainable City, coordinated the research on good quality indicators of education in the Federal District. At MEC (Ministry of Education) he was part of the Working Group on Innovation and Creativity in Basic Education. He was a facilitator of Gaia Brazil, from 2009 to 2016. He is the Pedagogical Coordinator of EcoHabitare Projects, a social company that aims to promote education connected with social needs in the 21st century. He is the author of numerous books and articles on education and a great promoter of democratic management.

He was the 12th Rector of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), in Brazil, where he is a Full Professor of Physics. He held other leadership roles, including: Executive Director of the Exploratory Science Museum at Unicamp, Vice-Rector of Undergraduate Studies, Vice-President of the Brazilian Society of Physics and Executive Director of the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (LNNano). Knobel has published over 250 scientific articles, in addition to various opinion articles, in national and international newspapers and magazines. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Elsevier). Knobel is an Eisenhower Fellow (2007), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (2009), and a Lemann Fellow (2015).

Phil Baty, Chief Knowledge Officer, Times Higher Education Phil Baty is an international authority on university performance and strategy, with 25 years of experience in global higher education, including a decade (2009-2019) as Editor of the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings and its derivative analyses. He is an award-winning journalist and a sought-after speaker, commentator and consultant and he currently leads external affairs activities at THE, the trusted global data and insights partner for the higher education sector. Phil was the creator of the THE World Academic Summit and he oversees the team that organises the summit and THE’s extensive series of global university leadership events and awards, which engage more than 30,000 senior university leaders, business executives and policymakers annually.

Administration and Logistics Course Coordinator – AEDB – Faculdade Dom Bosco – Resende/RJ. Researcher and working in Decision-Making Processes in the areas of management, business and industry and in innovation processes in the education area. Master in Production Engineering from COPPE/UFRJ (2009) in the field of Industrial Project Evaluation, graduated in Production Engineering from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2003). Doctoral student interrupted in Production Engineering at COPPE/UFRJ in the area of Innovation Management.