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Alejandro Álvarez-Vanegas

Professor and Coordinator of Environmental Culture in Universidad EAFIT, PhD Fellow in Governance and Policy Analysis in the University of Maastricht and the UNU-MERIT. Research on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in universities, with emphasis on transformative action. Member of the urban sustainability think-tank La Ciudad Verde and the Low Carbon City Foundation.

Expertise: Service-Learning as transformative action; Partnerships between academia and citizens/NGOs for building a low carbon city; Walk the talk: whole-institution approach for ESD; Commitment to sustainability as a graduate attribute; Developing action oriented courses

Matthias Barth

Professor of Education for Sustainable Development ISDL – Institute for Sustainable Development and Learning Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Adjunct faculty member at Arizona State University.

Expertise: Research and teaching for sustainability with emphasis on competence development, innovative learning settings and curriculum change; Sustainability transformation in higher education both on micro level of teaching and learning in courses and seminars and the macro level of curriculum change

Anna Batorczak

Assistant professor at the University Centre for Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development at University of Warsaw. Coordinator of a multi- and transdisciplinary international graduate programme in Sustainable Development with participation from nine departments and contributions of natural and social sciences.

Expertise: Coordination and delivery of inter- and transdisciplinary courses and programmes in the field of sustainable development

Kim Ceulemans

Assistant Professor at TBS Business School in Toulouse, France. Department of Management Control, Accounting and Auditing. Expert in sustainability management, assessment and reporting. Research on how higher education institutions deal with sustainability issues in their main functions of education, research, campus operations and community outreach. Steering Group member of UN PRME France Benelux Chapter and advisory board member of the COPERNICUS Alliance.

Expertise: Sustainability management, assessment and reporting; Development of internal/external sustainability strategies; Sustainability audits in higher education

Mario Diethart

Research associate at the Regional Centre of Expertise Graz-Styria/University of Graz and Network Manager of the COPERNICUS Alliance. Research on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), innovative teaching methods and virtual events. Co-organizer of the HES2020 and the CA Online Conference 2019.

Expertise: Virtual conferences; e-learning

Peter Glavič

Professor Emeritus of chemical engineering at the University of Maribor. Experience in managerial positions in paper-, chemical-, ceramics-, and metallurgical industry. Member of the Slovenian Parliament for eight years, vice-rector, and chairman of several professional bodies in Slovenian Chemical Society, and Society of Economists. Author of numerous scientific publications.

Expertise: Circular economy; Green Deal; Transdisciplinary projects

Peter Kwasi Kodjie

Secretary General of All-Africa Students Union (AASU). Advisory board member of the Harmonization of African Higher Education Quality Assurance and Accreditation (HAQAA) Initiative, and the Africa Continental Qualifications Framework (ACQF). Trustee on the 100 Million Campaign for marginalized children (founded by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Kailash Satyarthi).

Expertise: Defending students’ rights and children’s rights; Quality assurance in higher education institutions; Student Centered Learning; Regional Integration; International Relations and Diplomacy; Women’s rights; Youth in Governance and Leadership

Wim Lambrechts

Assistant professor at the Open University of the Netherlands and visiting professor at the University of Hasselt (Belgium). Specialized in the area of individual sustainability competences, focusing on critical thinking, professional development, empowerment, and learning processes. Expert-member of the Commission on Sustainable Higher Education of the Flemish government. Author of a variety of articles and papers on the topics of sustainability competences, research competences, and transformative approaches in learning for sustainability.

Expertise: Transformational learning; Transdisciplinary projects; Professional development

Rodrigo Lozano

Professor of Organisational Sustainability and co-director of the Center of Logistics and Innovative Production (CLIP) at the University of Gävle, Sweden. Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Organisations for Sustainability. Visiting professor at Central University of Technology, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Expertise: Publishing and journal logics in particular on ESD

Theres Paulsen

MSc ETH Environmental Sciences. Head of the Network for transdisciplinary research (td-net), run by the Swiss academies of arts and sciences with the aim to build a strong institutional structure for transdisciplinary research with an outstanding scientific community in which state-of-the-art methods and instruments are developed.

Christian Pohl

Senior Scientist and Co-​Director at USYS TdLab, ETH Zurich. Specialist in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

Expertise: Transdisciplinary teaching for sustainable development

Peter Schildermans

Flemish government advisor on sustainable higher education. Part of Ecocampus, a program specialized on supporting ground-breaking initiatives for transformative teaching. Examples are the design of a “skunkworks” for service learning processes and the complete make-over of a business studies program towards sustainable entrepreneurship; and digital professionalization for university educators and coordination of the commission on sustainable higher education for university leaders.

Expertise: Design of projects for transformative teaching in higher education; Face-to-face and remote design sprints

Sibylle Studer

Head of the Project Methods at the Network for transdisciplinary research (td-net). Compiling tools and methods for transdisciplinary research in collaboration with a growing Community of Practice of transdisciplinary researchers and method developers. PhD in Nonprofit Management, MAS in Social Anthropology.

Expertise: Methods and tools for co-producing knowledge in heterogeneous teams; Corresponding capacity building formats (www.transdisciplinarity.ch/toolbox; ITD-Alliance Working Group on itd toolkits & methods)

Chi Huyen Truong

Secretariat Lead of the Himalayan University Consortium, a dormant network of poor quality institutional membership turned into a thriving consortium of almost 90 university members in eight Hindu Kush Himalayan countries and associate partners in other countries. Instrumental in building the HUC Academy, a flag-ship intensive field school catering to early and mid-career researchers on the topics of climate change, adaptation and resilience building for the HKH, and in facilitating Thematic Working Groups – member-led, self-operating, and resource-pooling clusters of scholars across the region.

Expertise: Institutional networking for ESD; Regional collaboration for ESD; Capacity strengthening and leadership for ESD