Pedro Cateriano

Es abogado por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú y especialista en derecho constitucional. Tiene estudios de doctorado por el Instituto de Investigación José Ortega y Gasset, adscrito a la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Ha sido profesor de Derecho Constitucional y Cultura Política en la Universidad de Lima, así como director de Asuntos Internacionales y Cooperación Externa de la misma casa de estudios.
En 1990 fue elegido diputado por el Movimiento Libertad, fundado por Mario Vargas Llosa.

Marisol Schulz Manaut

Marisol Schulz Manaut is an editor, commentator, speaker, cultural journalist, and expert in the literary and publishing world. She has received multiple recognitions for her work promoting reading and advocating for the future of books and the Spanish language.

For the past twelve years, she has served as the director of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, considered the most important Spanish-language book fair and one of the most significant in the world. Under her leadership, FIL Guadalajara has received several awards, including the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award in the area of Communication and Humanities, shared with the Hay Festival; the Order of Rio Branco from Brazil; and recently, the Sor Juana Medal, a recognition granted by the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico.

She also directs the Los Angeles Spanish Language Book Fair and Literary Festival, an ambitious program aimed at promoting books and reading in Spanish in the United States, founded in 2011.

For over four decades, Marisol Schulz has focused on the book and reading sector, leading editorial areas in various public and private organizations, such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS). She was the editorial director at Plaza y Janés Mexico and spent 17 years at Grupo Santillana, first as executive editor and later as director of the Taurus and Alfaguara imprints in Mexico. She was responsible for the edition of major Ibero-American writers such as Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Saramago, Arturo Pérez Reverte, Elena Poniatowska, Augusto Monterroso, Sergio Ramírez, Carmen Boullosa, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, and Xavier Velasco, among others.

In 2013, the Mexican edition of Forbes recognized her as one of the 50 most powerful women in Mexico. In 2016 and 2020, the magazine Quién named her one of the "50 people who move Mexico." In 2021, she received the National Juan Pablos Award for Editorial Merit, a recognition granted annually by the Mexican Chamber of the Publishing Industry (Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana).

Other activities involving the participant:

Indigenous Literature Award 2025
Diana Moreno Toscano Latin American Young Poetry Prize 2025
Acknowledgments and closing
The privilege of turning off the light
Inauguration
Opening Ceremony
Inter-American Publishers Group Award

Gabriela Warkentin

Licenciada en comunicación por la Universidad Iberoamericana. Tiene estudios de posgrado en comunicación por la Universidad de Navarra, España. Es profesora de la maestría en periodismo sobre políticas públicas del CIDE, titular de la edición matutina del noticiero Así las Cosas, de W Radio y articulista del diario El País.  Tiene una aceleradora de ideas (Tridente) para la incubación y desarrollo de proyectos. Fue Miembro de la Asamblea Constructiva y de la Junta de Gobierno del Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminación Conapred, también de la Organización Mundial para la defensa de la libertad de expresión y protección de los periodistas.