Pura Fernández

Director of the CSIC Publishing House (Spanish National Research Council), responsible for 40 diamond access scientific journals and over 50 academic collections across various disciplines, and serves as the Deputy Vice President for Scientific Culture and Citizen Science. She is the founder and director of EDI-RED, Ibero-American Publishers and Publishing Houses (19th-21st centuries), the first open-access portal dedicated to publishing in Spanish, co-official languages, and Portuguese. She is part of the Advisory and Editorial Board of 27 scientific and academic publications and collections in Spain, France, the U.S., Argentina, and Mexico. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Sarah Corona Berkin

PhD in Communication from the Catholic University of Louvain and Director of the Advanced Latin American Studies Center (CALAS). She is the first emeritus SNII researcher at the University of Guadalajara. Currently, she leads the Network for Horizontal Knowledge Production at CALAS and researches the transformation of indigenous visual cultures. For 25 years, she has worked alongside Wixárika indigenous communities using horizontal methodologies. Her work advocates for dialogue as the foundation for knowledge production.

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.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America

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:

Meeting of University Press Associations from Ibero-America