UNESCO Regional Director for Science in the Latin-America and Caribbean region
Lidia Brito, a forest engineer, with a Master and Doctorate in Forest and Wood Science from Colorado State University in the USA, was born in Mozambique, and have been part of Eduardo Mondlane University staff since her graduation in Forest Engineering in 1981.She has held senior...
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Head of the Directorate Office of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Following his PhD in Geography from the University of Marburg (Germany), Jan Marco Müller's early career included assignments as Assistant to the Scientific CEO of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig (Germany), Programme Manager of the JRC Institute for...
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Carlos Nobre is an Earth System scientist from Brazil. He obtained a PhD in Meteorology at MIT in January 1983. Presently, he is a Senior Researcher with University of São Paulo’s Institute for Advanced Studies, Senior Fellow of World Resources Institute (WRI Brazil) and chair...
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Secretario General del Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo – CYTED
Es Ingeniero Agrónomo, Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay (1990). Tiene un Diploma en Economía en el Instituto de Economía de Montevideo (1995) y se ha especializado en gestión de la ciencia, la tecnología y la innovación. Actualmente es Secretario General del...
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Directora Nacional y Representante Residente de la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos (OEI)–Sede Panamá
Graduada en Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Santa María la Antigua, Panamá.Maestría en Comercio Exterior por la Universidad Carlos III en Madrid, España. Trabajó como asesora legal en el Comité Nacional del Centenario a partir del Programa de Naciones Unidas para...
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Director de la Oficina de Enlace para América Latina, Buenos Aires Sociedad Max Planck para el Avance de las Ciencias, Alemania
Cursó Estudios latinoamericanos (1978-83) en la Universidad de Rostock, Alemania, y posee Doctorado en Economía (1989). Ha trabajado en diferentes funciones e instituciones del sistema alemán de investigación científica, tales como el Consejo de Ciencia de Alemania. A partir...
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Responsible for international cooperation with North America, Latin America and the Caribbean at Directorate General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission
Adam Tyson is responsible for international cooperation with North America, Latin America and the Caribbean at Directorate General for Research and Innovation at the European Commission. In his former position he was responsible for overseeing the development of EU higher education...
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