Inés Sáenz is professor and researcher of Contemporary Latin American Literature, and Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Tecnológico de Monterrey. As Dean, she has overall responsibility for the school’s research projects and academic graduate programs.

She earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.   Her research and teaching is focused on Contemporary Latin American fiction and its relationship to Peace Studies and  to Visual Culture.

Ed Morrison is founder of I-Open, the Institute for Open Economic Networks, based in Cleveland, and publisher of EDPro (http://edpro-weblog.net), a popular weblog for economic development professionals. He is also economic policy advisor to the Center for Regional
Development at Purdue University.

Jane has worked across a number of Departments in the Government of Victoria, Australia, leading the Government’s policy development and programs in Science, Technology and Innovation for a number of years before taking a position heading the policy division in the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development (DIIRD).  In this role she developed the capacity to provide longer term intelligence to inform Government policy making using foresighting and technology roadmapping techniques.