PROF. DR. ASTRID FELLNER
SAP COACH AND EXPERT IN INTERNATIONALISATION AND LEADERSHIP
Prof. Dr. Astrid Fellner is Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. She is Co-Speaker and Principal Investigator in the DFG and Canadian SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary International Graduate Research Training Program "Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Space" together with University of Trier and Université de Montreal. She is Project Leader of the EU-funded INTERREG-Project "University of the Greater Region Center for Border Studies" and is Action Coordinator of a trilingual Border Glossary.
DR. TERESA AMIDO
EXPERT IN INTERNATIONALISATION AND LEADERSHIP, UDS
Dr. Teresa Amido studied Translation and Interpreting at the University of Valladolid (Spain) and holds a PhD in Translation from Leipzig University. Dr. Amido has broad experience in the coordination of European projects and currently coordinates the Office of International Relations of the Engineering School at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has participated as an expert in several projects in Asia and Latin America. Moreover, she has been a guest speaker in several higher education institutions in Latin America. After coordinating the international programme DIES IDC Latin America at Saarland University from 2016 until 2021, Dr. Amido remains one of the course's experts ever since.
PROF. DR. HUGO BURGOS
REGIONAL EXPERT AND SAP COACH
Dr. Hugo Burgos holds the position of Dean of the Graduate School at Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ since 2015, where he supervises 19 graduate programs. Between 2004 and 2015 he was the Dean of the College of Communication and Contemporary Arts at USFQ, where he supervised 11 undergraduate degrees and state-of-the-art film, multimedia, and art facilities. One of his research areas is the state of higher education in Latin America. As a Dean, he has been participating in national discussions concerning issues that shape higher education areas for the last 14 years.
PROF. DR. LARISA CARRERA
REGIONAL EXPERT AND SAP COACH
Dr. Larisa Carrera is Dean of the Faculty of Medical Science at Universidad Nacional del Litoral (FCM-UNL), Argentina, since 2014. She holds a Ph.D. in Medicine from Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and a master's degree in Higher Education. Dr. Carrera is Head Professor of Cell Biology, Histology and Medical Embryology and, since 2019, Vice Dean of Academic Subjects at the FCM-UNL. She has been President of the FAFEMP (Argentine Forum of Publics Schools of Medicine) between 2016 and 2018. From 2009 to 2014, she led the Teacher Training Program of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the UNL, participating as an expert in numerous teacher training courses for physicians and other health professionals, where she was responsible for the accreditation process of medical career.
PROF. MÓNICA ALATORRE
REGIONAL EXPERT AND SAP COACH
Mónica Alatorre is Dean of the School of Hospitality and Tourism at the University of the Americas (UDLA) and Professor of Marketing Services. She holds a master's degree in Hospitality Management from Cornell University, a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the I.T.E.S.M., Mexico, and a diploma in Tourism from the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She is the Founder, Coordinator and Teacher of the School of Hospitality, Culinary Art and Tourism of the Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Project Director and Assistant Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble de Mexico; Consultant in quality of service and marketing for numerous institutions and companies; and Member of the Board of Tourcert, Casa Gangotena, Mashpi Lodge and Fundación Sembrar.
PROF. DR. VERÓNICA BOTERO
REGIONAL EXPERT AND SAP COACH
Dr. Verónica Botero is the Dean of the Faculty of Mines at Universidad Nacional de Colombia since 2018. She is an associate professor of the Department of Geosciences and Environment and holds a PhD in geography from Utrecht University, an M.Sc. in Geological survey from the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (Univ. of Twente, Netherlands), and a B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from Universidad EAFIT. She has been Head of several graduate and undergraduate programmes, Head of the Department of Geosciences and Environment, Vice-dean of Research and Extension, Director of Research and Extension, and Vice-rector at the Medellin campus. She has participated in more than 90 research and extension projects, has supervised more than 30 M.Sc. and PhD thesis, and is the author or co-author of more than 75 papers, proceedings, book chapters, and books.
PROF. DR. ARBELIO PENTÓN
REGIONAL EXPERT AND SAP COACH
Dr. Arbelio Pentón Madrigal is professor at the School of Physics at Universidad de La Habana (UH), Cuba, and served as Dean of the School of Physics for the period 2014–2019. He was trained as a physicist at both the UH and the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, and obtained his PhD in 2006 at the UH. He has worked scientifically on X-ray crystallography and structure characterization of magnetic and ferroelectric materials by means of several characterization techniques. While his scientific work has been strongly based in Cuba, he has carried out several collaborations at the Brazilian Center for Physics Research and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and at the Institute for Experimental Physics of the Technical University of Vienna in Austria, among others.