UNIVERSITY GLOBAL COALITION - Key Persons
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- Director of Public Affairs, APLU
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- Member of Committee
- President, Tecnológico De Monterrey
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- Member of Committee
- Principal, McGill University
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- President
- Strategic Advisor
Emily Fintel Kaiser serves as Strategic Advisor to the President at EARTH University since 2017. In that role she has worked with the President, leadership team and community of the University to develop both EARTH's 2018-2022 and 2023-2027 Strategic Plans. She also served for 3 years as the founding Executive Director of EARTH Futures, the University's global center for solutions that partners with rural communities, academic institutions, and other like-minded partners around the world to transform rural communities and food systems for the better. Prior to EARTH, she served 14 years in leadership and executive roles at Fundación Avina, a global organization that drives processes designed to change systems toward sustainable development. Her professional history also includes roles at INCAE Business School, the Inter-American Dialogue and the Inter-American Foundation. A native of the US, Emily has lived abroad for nearly 20 years in Latin America, Europe and Africa. She maintains a special connection with Costa Rica, the country where she has lived the longest outside of the United States. Emily holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and a Master of Arts degree from John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
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- Member of Committee
- Vice President for Global Network Expansion, Northeastern University
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- Member of Committee
- Rector, Universidad Politécnica De Madrid
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- Member of Committee
- Vice Provost and Associate Chancellor, UC Davis
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- Special Assistant to the Executive Director, UNITAR
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- Executive Director, UNITAR
- Member of Committee
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- Leader of Strategic Engagement at Tecnológico
Paola Visconti is Leader of Strategic Engagement at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Under the leadership of the Sustainable Development and Engagement Director, her objective is to exert Tec de Monterrey´s responsibility in constructing a more just and sustainable world by connecting internal and external actors akin to social transformation, by fostering, articulating, and giving visibility to select institutional initiatives related to the SDGs and offer society at large Tec's capacities and capabilities, academic, scientific, and institutional.
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- Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Affairs, SUNY System Administration
- Member of Committee
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- Member of Committee
- President, University of Waterloo
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- Member of Committee
- President, Montana State University
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- Member of Committee
- President, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ángel Cabrera, President, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Nikhil Seth, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director, UNITAR, jointly sign the Declaration on University Global Engagement