Rita Argollo

Director of Editus, the Publishing House of the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC). She is the Vice President of the Brazilian Association of University Publishers (ABEU), having served as president from 2019 to 2023 and as the regional director for the Northeast from 2015 to 2019. A journalist and PhD in Education, she is a professor at UESC. Her main areas of interest include the interface of communication, education, and technology, with a particular focus on the study of digital culture.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

Belmar Gándara

Director of the University Press of Cantabria and Secretary of the Editorial Council. She is the coordinator for the Group of Nine Universities in the interuniversity publishing initiative “genueve ediciones” and the founder of ECH–Ediciones, dedicated to the literary world for the Foundation for the Arts, Literary Creation, and the Senses at the Contemporary School of Humanities in Madrid, as well as the Tira y Retira Publishing House. She holds a Master's degree in Publishing from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Master's degree in Strategic Knowledge and Information Management from the Open University of Catalonia.

Malena Romero

Executive President of the Editorial Fund at the University of the Pacific. Holds a degree in Economics from the University of the Pacific. She has over 30 years of experience in academic and university publishing.

Antonio Ramos Revillas

Director of the University Press of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) since 2016. He holds a degree in Spanish Literature from UANL, which awarded him the Arts Prize in 2015 for his literary career. He was part of the Mexico 20 selection, organized by the British Council, Conaculta, and the Hay Festival, recognizing him as one of the 20 most important writers under 40 in the country. His most recent novel is Playa Bagdad. He is a member of the National System of Creators of Art.

Other activities involving the participant:

Literature with eggs and machaca
Panel 3: Get studying. Bookstores and publishers at the desk