Guillermo Escribano Manzano

Director general del Español en el Mundo desde 2021, un órgano del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación, responsable de ejecutar las políticas de fomento del idioma español en el mundo. Licenciado en Derecho por la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas. Ingresó en la Carrera Diplomática de España en 2002. Se ha desempeñado en diversos cargos en las embajadas de España en Alemania, Marruecos, Filipinas y Polonia, además de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)

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Opening Dialogue: Acknowledging Multilingualism in Science
Conversation 2: Science in Spanish, Back and Forth

María Isabel Cabrera

President of the Spanish Union of University Publishers (UNE). Director of the University of Granada Press. Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Granada. Her research focuses on 20th-century Spanish thought and artistic creation, with particular interest in the relationships between art and ideology, art and totalitarian powers in Europe, as well as the exchange and circulation of ideas and creators between these contexts.

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Opening Ceremony
Discussion: Projects and Contributions of Spanish University Publishing

Delfim Leao

Vice-Rector for Culture and Open Science and a professor at the University of Coimbra. He is currently a member of the CoARA Multilingualism Working Group, a member of the Executive Assembly of OPERAS, and involved in European projects such as OPERAS-P, TRIPLE, OPERAS-PLUS, PALOMERA, and ATRIUM. He leads the team responsible for the development of the Mondaecus platform. He is also a designated member of the Scientific Council of CNRS-Humanities & Social Sciences (2023-2028). His main areas of interest include ancient history, law, and political theory; he has published approximately 200 works.

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Panel 1: Building a Science for Everyone

Lía Castillo Meneses

President of the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC) since 2023. She holds a degree in Business Administration with postgraduate studies in Marketing and Commercialization. Since 2007, she has coordinated the Marketing and Sales area at UPC Press of the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences. She is the founder of the chapter for university presses and research or documentation centers in Peru (EUPerú) and served as president during its first two terms.

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Opening Ceremony

Gustavo Solórzano Alfaro

Director of the University Press of the State University at a Distance (EUNED) since 2022. He is a writer, editor, critic, translator, and professor. He won the National Aquileo J. Echeverría Poetry Award in 2023. He holds a Master’s degree in Latin American Literature from the University of Costa Rica, where he also pursued a PhD in Cultural Studies. He is the author of 12 books, including Nadie que esté feliz escribe (2017) and La culpa (2023).

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Panel 3: Open Science and Its Implications for University Publishing

Lizbeth Alvarado

Head of the Editorial Fund at the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia and Editor-in-Chief of Spirat, an academic journal focused on university teaching and management. She is also the director of the feminist publishing house Gafas Moradas. An editorial consultant, she specializes in book positioning and marketing strategies, as well as promoting reading. She teaches academic communication and research methodologies. She holds a Master's degree in Communication with a specialization in Content from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

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Discussion: Projects and Contributions of Spanish University Publishing

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.

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Panel 2: The Role of Publishers and Their Commitment to Knowledge Dissemination

Marco Giraldo

Executive President of the Colombian Association of University Publishers (Aseúc). Editorial Head at the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Academic Editor. Holds a degree in Modern Languages from the Universidad de Caldas, a specialization in Intellectual Property Law from the Universidad Sergio Arboleda, and a Master's in Cultural Management and Production from the Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano.

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Panel 3: Open Science and Its Implications for University Publishing

Sayri Karp

Director of the University of Guadalajara Press and a member of the Advisory Council of the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC), of which she served as president from 2015 to 2023. She is also a member of the Altexto Network of University and Academic Publishers in Mexico and its Advisory Council. Additionally, she is part of the organizing committee for the International Forum on University and Academic Publishing, held at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. In 2018, she received the "Rubén Bonifaz Nuño" Recognition for University Editors awarded by UNAM.

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Opening Ceremony

Juan Felipe Córdoba Restrepo

Director of the University Press of Universidad del Rosario, Colombia. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of SciELO Livros and the Advisory Council of the Open Book Futures project. He previously served as president of the Association of University Publishers of Colombia (ASEUC) and the Association of University Presses of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC). He holds a PhD in History and is part of the Research Group on Religion, Culture, and Society at the University of Antioquia, as well as the Research Group on Academic Books at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). In 2019, he received the "Rubén Bonifaz Nuño" Recognition for University Editors awarded by UNAM.

Other activities involving the participant:

Panel 1: Building a Science for Everyone