How to transform education from an innovative perspective?

Sergio Díaz-Granados has extensive experience in public and private service, both nationally and internationally, with special emphasis on regional development and integration issues. Before assuming the presidency of CAF, he served as Executive Director for Colombia at the Inter-American Development Bank. He previously held the positions of Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia, Vice Minister of Business Development and President of the Boards of Directors of Bancóldex and ProColombia. He also has been a congressman and chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Colombia’s House of Representatives.

 (Spain) is the secretary general of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI). He is the author and co-author of texts and articles on education and has worked as a consultant in education in almost all countries of Latin America and Spain. Jabonero was a professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and has received numerous distinctions including the Orden de Alfonso X El Sabio.

(Ecuador) has served as Ecuador's Minister of Education since May 2021. The Minister has a degree in International Relations from the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, a master's degree in Special Education from the Universidad Tecnológica Equinoccial, and a Higher Diploma in Project Design, Management, and Evaluation from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). In her professional career, she won an education development competition at UNESCO to head educational issues in the Andean region, served as an advisor to the vice minister of the Ministry of Education of Ecuador, and served as the undersecretary of Special and Inclusive Education Foundations of Ecuador.

Christian Asinelli is a political scientist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA), has a Master's degree in Public Administration and Policy from the Universidad de San Andrés (UdeSA) and postgraduate degrees in Urban Economics (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and in Sociourbana Management (FLACSO). In 2019, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from the National University of San Martín (Argentina). During the last sixteen years he has been appointed in different roles in the public sector and the international arena: Alternate National Director of the State Modernization Project at the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2005); Deputy of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2007-2010); Undersecretary of Evaluation of Projects with External Financing of the Chief of Staff of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nation (2011-2014); Corporate Director of Institutional Development of CAF (2014-2017); President of the Fundación Banco Ciudad (2019) and Undersecretary of International Financial Relations for Development, Secretariat of Strategic Affairs, Presidency of the Nation. He was a Fellow of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program (2010), the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies-MIT (2011) and the Singularity University Executive Program (2017). He is the author of the books Buenos Aires: The city we have, the city we want (Buenos Aires, 2009); Modernization of the Argentine State: policies, management and professional scene (Buenos Aires, Edition, 2015) and Financing Development: The role of multilateral banking in Latin America (Buenos Aires, 2021).