Christine has worked with international companies, schools, and government agencies in the United States, Europe, India, Africa, and the United Arab Emirates to develop high-impact leadership, learning, and organizational transformation programs. Christine is the co-founder of Mirai, a strategic innovation consultancy, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania in organizational learning with a focus on leadership for innovation.

In her previous roles as the Vice President for the TELLAL Institute (GEMS Education) and Head of Innovation Strategy for GEMS Education, Christine was responsible for leading professional learning and development, educational research, and strategic partnerships for schools and corporate entities across the UAE. In this capacity, Christine developed Creating Communities of Innovation, a project run with Harvard University’s Project Zero focused on transforming schools through pedagogical, technological, and leadership innovation.

Christine served as the TELLAL Chair for the Learning Innovations Laboratory at Harvard University, was a Harvard University Project Zero Classroom faculty member, and is a member of the advisory board for the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and GEMS First Point School. She is also the board chair at Wellington International School. Christine writes on innovation, education, technology, and entrepreneurship for Forbes and the Huffington Post and is a regular contributor to Edutopia and on Dubai Eye.

Dr Diah Wihardini is the Director of BINUS Global of Bina Nusantara (BINUS) Universityin Jakarta, Indonesia. She tookher PhD in educational measurementat UC Berkeleyunder the Presidential Fulbright scholarship, a M.Ed at Flinders University, anda B.Sc (Hons) in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Adelaide. Her research interests include item response modelling and development, international assessments, teaching and learning, and educational policy analysis.At BINUS, she handles all activities related to internationalisations and collaborations, and teaches mathematics and statistics coursesat undergraduate level.

PRESENT POSITIONS

Rector. Universidad del Caribe (UNICARIBE). Since February 2023.

Emeritus Professor in Nuclear Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)

President of the Spanish Nuclear Society (SNE). Since March 2023.

Member of the Expert Committee of the Spanish Nuclear Regulatory Commission (2020-2024)

President of Madrid Industrial Engineering Association. Since November 2022.

PAST POSITIONS

Dean of College of Industrial Engineering at UPM (April 2014 – April 2018)

Vice-Rector for Academic Degrees and Doctorate at UPM (2012-2014)

Vice–Rector for Academic Management and Professors at UPM (2004-2012)

President of the European Nuclear Society (ENS) (January 2020 – December 2021)

Vice-President of ENEN (2009- 2012)

Member of the Scientific Technical Committee of Euratom (2014- 2018)

Expert Member of the International Assessment of the Discipline of Nuclear Science and Technology. Harbin Engineering University (R.P. of China). (July 2019)

INVITED PROFESSOR

Visiting and invited professor in more than 20 Universities and Research Centers as:

Harbin Engineering University (R.P. China), 2020

University of Florida (USA). (June- August 1992)

University of Nevada. Reno (USA). (September 2000)

Norhwersten Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi´an (China). (July 2018)

Polytechnical University of Saint Petersburg (Rusia). (July 2018 and July 2019)

Instituto Balseiro (Argentina) (September-November 2019)

Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (Chile) (December 2019)

Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (from January to March 2020)

Tec Monterrey (Mexico) (October 2015)

Instituto Politécnico Nacional (México) (October 2015)

Universidad Autónoma (México) (March 2017)

Purdue University (USA)  (December 2016)

Tongi University (China) (December 2017)

Beihang University (China) (December 2017) (October 2018)

Xi´an Jiaotong (China) (October 2018) (April 2019)

Harbin Engineering University (April 2019)

OCDE-NEA Data Bank. Paris (September-November 1981)

Institute Lebedev. Academy of Sciences URSS, Russia. (December 1985)

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. (September 1985)

Ispra Research Centre (Euratom). Italy. (November 1986)

Los Alamos National Laboratory, EEUU. (September 1987, November 1993)

Livermore National Laboratory. EEUU. (November 1989, October 1992)

INP kfk Karlsruhe. Germany. (July-August 1995)

CEA Limeil Valenton. France. (May 1996, May 1997, April 1998)

PUBLISHED PAPERS & SPEAKER AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Over more than 150 published papers in journals and about 200 papers at International Conferences.

Hector G. Ceballos is Director of the Living Lab & Data Hub at the Tecnologico de Monterrey’s Institute for the Future of Education (IFE). He collaborates with the Research Group on Advanced Artificial Intelligence of the School of Science and Engineering at Tecnologico de Monterrey where he is also advisor of master and PhD students on Computer Science. He is also member of the Mexican Researcher System (SNI Level 1) and adherent member of the Mexican Society on Computing (AMEXCOMP). He has also worked as expert consultor for bank and IT companies, and promoted the adoption of Semantic Web technologies in academy, government and industry. Héctor has a masters and a PhD on Artificial Intelligence by Tecnológico de Monterrey. His research lines include the application of AI techniques on Scientometrics, Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics. He has (co)advised more than twenty master and one Phd thesis in these research lines at Tecnologico de Monterrey.