Fawwaz Habbal is Senior Lecturer in Applied Physics and Executive Dean for Education and Research at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He received his BS in mathematics and physics from the University of Damascus, his MS in experimental physics from the American University of Beirut, and his PhD in physics from the University of Cincinnati.
Festival Director and Artistic Director of “Enjoy Jazz – International Festival for Jazz and More”, which he also founded in 1999. As the Representative of the Executive Mayor of Mannheim and his Special Advisor Global and UN Affairs he is responsible for the setup and strategic development of the new worldwide network/platform “Global Parliament of Mayors” (GPM) which was launched in 2016.
Peruvian lawyer, actor, film director, and politician. He served as Prime Minister of his country from March to September 2019. He was previously Minister of Culture, in 2017. The first Peruvian actor to be appointed Primer Minister, del Solar worked to enact the National Policy of Aboriginal Languages, Oral Tradition and
Intercultural Approaches, and served during a period of political confrontation between the legislative and executive branches of government.
Tom Osborn graduated from Harvard College in 2020 with a BA degree in Psychology. His work focuses on interventions that provide young people in Sub Saharan Africa with an opportunity to secure important life outcomes. He has worked on mental health, academic and social support interventions through the Shamiri Institute. Tom plans to roll out Pre-Texts within the education system in Kenya in the next couple of years. Read more about Tom here.
Doris Sommer is Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies. She is founder of Cultural Agents, an Initiative at Harvard and an NGO dedicated to reviving the civic mission of the Humanities.
Professor of Art and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. He received his Doctorate in 2010 from Harvard University. His latest academic publications include "The Great Swindle: A Project by Santiago Montoya" (2014) and "Ad Usum / To be used: The Works of Pedro Reyes" (2017). His monograph on Mexican artist Pia Camil, There are no Friendly Fires, will be published in 2022.
Mixtli is a specialist in Communications. She was responsible for the organization of a training workshop for Community Leaders and Education and Cultural Workers in Buenos Aires (2019). With Tálata Rodríguez, she was responsible for the first digital training workshop with a base in Argentina and helped adapting the Facilitator Manual for the digital protocol (2020).
