Dr Fornes is Senior Fellow at the University of Bristol (UK) and former Dean of the Graduate School & Executive Education at ESIC Business & Marketing School (Spain). He completed his Post-Doctoral Studies at IE Business School (Spain) after receiving a PhD in Management from the University of Bath (UK) and is Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He also holds an MBA degree from Universidad Adolfo Ibañez (Chile) with a period of studies at University of Southern California (USA), and a First Degree in Business from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina). Dr Fornes started his professional career at the Citibank in 1993 and then funded what became a mid-sized company with operations in Chile and Argentina. Since 2005 he has combined academic and executive responsibilities. Also in 2005 he started to be professionally involved with China where in 2010, for his work with SMEs, he received the Liupan Mountain Friendship Award from the Ningxia Government for his “contribution to Ningxia’s economy and society”, and then in 2014 he received the Foreign Expert Award from the Shanghai Government. Dr Fornes has published widely on management in emerging countries, including one of the first books on foreign exchange exposure in these markets and two on the economic and business relations between China and Latin America, for the latter he was awarded the London School of Economics – Latin American Development Bank Fellowship in 2015. His research has been featured in mass media like CGTN, Fortune, the BBC, El Pais or Cinco Dias, and in reputable academic publications like Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Asia Pacific Business Review, Journal of Business Research, etc.

I am Alba Márquez García, a Spanish woman who has studied an Honours Degree in International Relations (Madrid - Spain) and a Master in Global Security (Glasgow - Scotland, UK). I also love languages so apart from having Spanish as my mother tongue, by formal and informal education methods still ongoing I have reached a proficient level in English, French and Italian, a very good level in Portuguese, a still basic but good German and basic Arabic, and I also have interest in and some notions of Russian. At the university I have been involved in programs that provided help and other services to international students, and I was a trainee at the International Organisation for Migrations. While studying, I have worked in Italy (Rome) as an English teaching assistant and care-taker in a family, and I also worked in France (Aix-en-Provence) as an international volunteer part of the French Service Civique (mainly working at institutions and creating links with associations, workers and the public). I have also participated in Models of United Nations as delegation representant (getting awarded), in Erasmus+ exchanges, in NATO security schools courses and in other international and minor trainings and conferences. After finishing my studies, I worked as an intern at the European Union - Frontex and at the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC). My greatest ambition is to work in an international organisation having the capacity to collaborate in and make the necessary changes and improvements that our entire society and planet need; to provide the best service I can to the community and to provide the security we need while keeping risks and inequalities at a minimum. I am a fast learner, a dedicated worker and a passionate person eager to discover, increase and exploit my full potential and give the best of me to the world.

I am a teacher educator in the Faculty of Education at Monash University in Melbourne Australia. My research examines the historical formation of education concepts. In 2012 I organised an international conference on early childhood education as a collaboration between Monash University and the University of Cape Coast in Ghana; in 2014 I organised a second of these international conferences in collaboration with Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. I am currently investigating the formation of the concept of "Belonging" as used by the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

I am the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research, Innovation & International at The University of the South Pacific, a university that covers 12 member countries in the Pacific region. I am also a Professor of Inclusive Education and a Sociologist and Educationalist by background. I have worked in Universities in the UK and Australia prior to moving to Fiji in 2015. I have also spent time working in the Caribbean. My publications and research has been focused on the sociology of inclusive policy and practice and I have a strong interest in the experiences and stories of young people and adults who have experienced institutional social exclusion.