User:Francisco Lopez Segrera

Francisco López Segrera

Higher Education and Social Science Specialist
PhD in Hispanic and Latin-American Studies (Paris VIII, Sorbonne, 1995). Deputy Rector of the Institute of International Relations of Cuba (ISRI), (1974-1988). Civil servant of UNESCO between 1994 and 2002, where he had the post of Regional Adviser for Social Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean and Director of UNESCO International Institute of Higher Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC).

He had been Visiting Professor (Titular) of the University of Salamanca, Spain (2002-2004) on International Education and Globalization and Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean in the PhD on Virtual Spaces Building Processes.

As Member of UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge he worked from 2002 to 2009, being also a Member of the Working Group on University and Society of CLACSO. Currently he is, since June 2004, Academic Adviser and Professor of the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI) at the Technical University of Catalonia and Professor of International Higher Education in UNESCO Chair on University Management in that University.

He has been Visiting Professor in fourteen universities of Latin America, Africa, Spain, USA, France, United Kingdom, Austria, Canada and Russia. He has offered lectures in more than 120 universities all over the world, including China, several European and African countries(1).

He has been visiting Professor of International Education and International Comparative Higher Education in the Boston College Centre for International Higher Education (Fall, 2001) and of Prospective on Globalization in Latin America and the Caribbean in Binghamton University and Fernand Braudel Centre (2001). He also has been a visiting Professor of International Education and International Higher Education in the Department of Education, Oxford University (June 2007, March 2009).

Also he has worked as Director of UNESCO Journal “Higher Education and Society (1999-2001).

He has published 14 books, being the editor and co-author of nine books and dozens of articles, some of them published in one or several of the following seven languages: Spanish, English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian and Portuguese. He recently published in English Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO-IESALC, 2009). Also, he is the author of the article on Educational Reform, in The International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd. Edition, edited by Barry McGaw, Penelope Peterson and Eva Baker, Elsevier (in press).

He worked as the Executive Editor of World Report on Higher Education, 2006: Financing Universities published by Palgrave Macmillan and Editor of “Higher Education in the World”, a yearly Report of GUNI on Higher Education published in English (Palgrave Macmillan), Spanish and Chinese.

E-mail: francisco.lopez-segrera@upc.edu http://www.guni-rmies.net

(1) As Guest Professor or lecturer he has worked in the following countries and universities, among others: Canada, USA, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Bolivia, Panama, Venezuela, Peru, Brasil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Trinidad-Tobago, former USSR, Poland, Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Italy, United Kingdom, China, Ecuatorial Guinea, Zimbabwe, Benin. Among the Universities are: Johns Hopkins University, SAIS (1981);  Instituto Latinoamericano de la Academia de Ciencias, URSS (1979); El Colegio de México (1983, 1984, 1985, 1986); The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canadá (1992); Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, Costa Rica (1985, 1986, 1996); CENDES, Caracas, Venezuela (1988);  EURAL, Buenos Aires (1986); Universidad Federal Fluminense, Río de Janeiro (1986, 1994, 2003); Diplomatic Academy and Latin American Institute, Viena, (1988,1991); Université Michel de Montaigne, Institut d’Études Ibériques et Iberoamericaines, Bordeaux 3, France, (1991, 2003, 2007); Research Group of Paul Estrade of the University Paris VIII, Sorbonne, (1992, 1995); Universidad de Sao Paolo (1995, 1996, 1997). In 1995 he was a member of the working Group of Immanuel Wallerstein in the “Maison des Sciences de l’Homme”, Paris and a member of the High Level Commission of the Ministry of Higher Education in Venezuela, also integrated by Carlos Tünnermann, two French Rectors and Venezuelan academic authorities (1999-2001); Universidad de Sevilla (1997); Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (1998, 2000); Universidad de Puerto Rico, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de Educación(1998, 2000, 2001); Universidad de Morelos (2000); Boston College, Centre for International Higher Education (2001); Binghamton University, F. Braudel Center (2001); UNAM, CESU,  CRI, IPN, Universidad de Puebla, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico (2003, 2005, 2007, 2008); REGGEN, Río de Janeiro (2003, 2004); Externado, Bogotá (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009); Universidad Católica de Colombia (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009); San Buenaventura, Cali (2002, 2003) and Cartagena (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008); Prospecta Perú, CONACYTEC (2004); Kunming University, China (2004); Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, España (2005);  PUCRS, Porto Alegre, (2006, 2009); Universidad de Maringá, (UEM) (2008, 2009), Brasil; Universidad UNIOESTE (2008, 2009), Cascavel, Brasil; FIUC, 2002, Vatican City, Rome; Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín (2006); ANUIES, Mexico (2006); Grupo de  Universidades Acreditadas de Colombia (G 10), 2007; Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2009); Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) (2007); Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México (2007); Oxford University, Department of Education (2007, 2009); CIM, Venezuela (2008);  UNESCO and UUNN University Chairs, Universidad de Palermo (Buenos Aires), 2007, 2008, 2009; Universidades Javeriana de Cali y de Bogotá (2006, 2009); Universidad de Santiago de Chile (IDEA, 2008); Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de la Educación y Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Salamanca (2002-2004); Instituto de Barcelona de Estudios Internacionales (IBEI), 2008; Universidad Politécnica Cataluña (June 2004 until the present).