Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey, is a secular and coeducational private university based in Monterrey, Mexico, which has grown to include 36 campuses throughout the country. One of only 45 universities in the World to be ranked with 5 QS Stars, it is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious universities in Latin America.
The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC) is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities in the country, along with the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso. It is also one of Chile's oldest universities and one of the most recognized educational institutions in Latin America.
The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, commonly known as ITAM, is a private university. It is one of Mexico's most important institutions of higher learning; highly prestigious in the social sciences; regarded as the best undergraduate Economics, International Relations, Law, and Political Science school in Mexico. Also, it is considered one of Mexico's think tanks and has the highest rank of admission to the Mexican Foreign Service.
Son of Ruben Aguilar Monteverde (1924-2011) and Rosa Alicia García Valenzuela (1923-2016). His father was Headmaster of the Banco Nacional de México (Banamex), institution in which he worked for 43 years. He took part in the creation of a dozen civil society organizations, including Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía (CEMEFI), FUNSALUD and Managing Director of the Instituto Nacional de Nutrición Dr. Salvador Zubirán. He advised companies such as Grupo Carso, Grupo Alfa and Cinépolis.
Arturo ('Jack') Warman Gryj was a Mexican anthropologist, member of the cabinets of Carlos Salinas and Ernesto Zedillo, also an author of nine books, two of which have been translated to English. He also wrote multiple articles for the magazine Nexos. He has also taught social epistemology at the Universidad de Chile
Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ is a liberal-arts, private university located in Quito, Ecuador. It was the first totally private self-financed university in Ecuador and the first liberal-arts institution in the Andean region.
The Spanish National Research Council is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Its main objective is to develop and promote research that will help bring about scientific and technological progress, and it is prepared to collaborate with Spanish and foreign entities in order to achieve this aim.
The Mexican Space Agency is the national space agency of Mexico, established in July 2010. The agency does not have infrastructure, and aims to promote and coordinate education, research and development of the space-related activities that are performed in the country.
Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL) is a private institution that provides on-campus and continuing education programmes. There are 23 Bachelor's degrees on the Loja campus and 20 continuing education programmes.
Chile can be considered astronomy's world capital. In 2011, Chile was home to 42% of the world's astronomical infrastructure consisting mostly of telescopes. In 2015 it expected to contain more than 50% of the global infrastructure by 2030. In the Atacama desert region of northern Chile, the skies are exceptionally clear and dry for more than 300 days a year. These conditions have attracted the world's scientific community to develop in the Atacama desert the most ambitious astronomical projects in the history of mankind.
Latindex is a bibliographical information system available for free consultation. Established as a network in 1997, the project is based on the cooperation of 17 national resource centers that operate in a coordinated scheme for the gathering and dissemination of relevant information and data on the Iberoamerican journals.
The Popular University of Cesar, is a public, departmental, coeducational university based primarily in the city of Valledupar, Cesar, Colombia.
Instituto Global para la Sostenibilidad is a globally and environmentally focused organization founded by María Isabel Studer Noguez at the Tec de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus in collaboration with Arizona State University (ASU). It was founded as an extension of the ASU's Global Institute for Sustainability as an extension, the first and only one of its kind in Latin America. The institute holds and sponsors research, educational events and program and activism on its own and in collaboration with business, educational and governmental agencies.
Jorge Erdely Graham is a Mexican theologian, religious studies scholar, and author.
David Muñoz Rodríguez is a professor and researcher with the Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, specializing in electronic communications. He has been teaching at the university level since 1971 and director of the Centro de Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones since 1992. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and several books. His work has been recognized by Level III membership in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores and various awards.
Gonzalo Hernández Licona is a Mexican economist and distinguished scholar in the fields of poverty measurement, economic development and social program evaluation. Hernández Licona holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford, a Masters in Economics from the University of Essex and a B.A. in Economics from the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM).
CEISAL is a network of the main institutes and specialised centres in Latin American studies, and national associations of social research on Latin America in Europe. It consists of 51 members representing 19 European countries. It is a plural and critical space for reflection from the different fields in Social Sciences in order to broaden the knowledge of the social, cultural, economic and political realities.
Chilean Venezuelans are Venezuelans of Chilean descent or Chileans who have obtained Venezuelan citizenship. This migratory flow was one of the main destinations for exiles from the Pinochet dictatorship, at which time approximately 80,000 people came to Venezuela, in addition to professional migrants motivated by the oil boom occurred between 1950 and 1980.
Santa Lucía is the fifth district of the Barva canton, in the Heredia province of Costa Rica.
