Conocimiento y democracia. Una interacción necesaria y compleja

Mikel Mancisidor has a degree in Law and is doctor in International Relations and Diplomacy (DIR GSD) and doctor in History (Universidad de Deusto). He has been Rapporteur of the General Comment on Science and Human Rights of the UN Committee on ESCR (he has been a member of this committee since 2013). He has taught International Law and International Human Rights Law at Deusto, American University and Institute René Cassin. He was awarded the Gold Medal of Rights 2013 and the Eusko Ikaskuntza - Caja Laboral Humanities Award 2020.

He has been the director-general of the public Basque Broadcasting Corporation EITB (Euskal Irrati Telebista) since November 2020. Previously, he was an advisor to the Presidency of the Basque Government and director of Communication (2015-2017). He has also been president of the public companies PROMOBISA and Bilbao Next of the City Council of Bilbao for city promotion and development. He graduated in Radio and Television at the INDESCO Bilbao (1991-92). He got a Master's degree in Political and Electoral Communication at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and a postgraduate degree in Economic Intelligence and Security at ICADE (2016). Likewise, he obtained the certificate in Management Standards under the rules of the EFQM, European Foundation for Quality of Management. He has taught Public Management at the George Washington University Graduate Program for Latin American programs. He has been a guest lecturer and speaker at university postgraduate and training courses on Public Management and Institutional Communication at INAP, FEMP, UNED, Universidad del País Vasco y Universidad de Deusto.

Director del Instituto de Gobernanza Democrática, Globernace. También es Catedrático de filosofía política y social e investigador IKERBASQUE en la Universidad del País Vasco. Profesor invitado en diversas universidades europeas y americanas, recientemente en el Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies del Instituto Europeo de Florencia, así como en la London School of Economics. Actualmente, es Director de Estudios Asociado de la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris. Entre sus últimos libros cabe destacar La Política en Tiempos de Indignación, Un mundo de todos y de nadie; La democracia del conocimiento, Premio Euskadi de Ensayo 2012; La humanidad amenazada: gobernar los riesgos globales (con Javier Solana); El futuro y sus enemigos; El nuevo espacio público; La sociedad invisible, Premio Espasa de Ensayo 2004; La transformación de la política, III Premio de Ensayo Miguel de Unamuno y Premio Nacional de Literatura en la modalidad de Ensayo 2003.

She is a professor at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and holds a PhD in Mathematics from the Claude Bernard University of Lyon. She is a topology specialist. Interested in the dissemination of science, she has been participating for years in various activities at universities, scientific institutions, cultural or educational centers. She collaborates in medias, such as the program La Mecanica del Caracol on Radio Euskadi or the Network of Communicating Scientists of El Periódico in collaboration with the Esteve Foundation. She is the editor of the Women with Science blog of the Chair of Scientific Culture of the UPV/EHU. In 2015 she received the University of Alicante Equality Award and one of the Medals of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society in its first edition. In 2016 she was awarded the Emakunde Prize "for her scientific career aimed at disseminating and promoting the approach of mathematics and scientific knowledge to women, as well as for making visible and vindicating women scientists and their contributions to both the Academy and to social progress. In 2019 she received the appointment of Illustrious of Bilbao "for her work as a science communicator and for making visible the role of women in science."

Mikel Mancisidor has a degree in Law and is doctor in International Relations and Diplomacy (DIR GSD) and doctor in History (Universidad de Deusto). He has been Rapporteur of the General Comment on Science and Human Rights of the UN Committee on ESCR (he has been a member of this committee since 2013). He has taught International Law and International Human Rights Law at Deusto, American University and Institute René Cassin. He was awarded the Gold Medal of Rights 2013 and the Eusko Ikaskuntza - Caja Laboral Humanities Award 2020.

He is professor of physiology at the EHU and associate of the Donostia International Physics Center. He was vice-rector (1997-2000) and rector (2004-2009) of the EHU; member of the Board of Directors of EITB (1999-2014); Chair of Scientific Culture of the EHU (2010-2024); member (2013-) and president (2020-2024) of Jakiunde; member (2018-2024) and president (2019-2024) of the Advisory Committee of the Spanish edition of The Conversation; member of the scientific committee of the journal Mètode (2023-). He has written on science and its social implications (The Conversation and Revista de Occidente) and on animal biology (Cuaderno de Cultura Científica, Zientzia Kaiera, Naukas and Mètode). He has collaborated in numerous radio programs in several radio stations. He is co-author with M. B. Urrutia of Animalien aferak (EHUpress, 2011), author of Animales ejemplares (Next Door, 2020), co-author with J. Sevilla of Los males de la ciencia (Next Door, 2022) and author of Primates al este del Edén (Crítica, 2023). In 2019 he received the Eusko Ikaskuntza-Caja Laboral Award for Humanities, Culture, Arts and Social Sciences. Since June 2024 he has been Head of Science, Universities and Innovation of the Basque Government.

Ikerbasque Professor and Scientific Director of the Basque Centre for Climate Change (2016-). She graduated at University of Valencia and post-doct in the Arizona State University. She has worked on research and research-policy at national and international level. She has also worked at Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies (CEAM) until 2007. She was Senior Officer positions at the secretariat of the UNFCCC supporting climate change negotiations (2007-2011), and at FAO as Program Coordinator of the UNREDD Programme (2012-2015). She held the High Distinction for Scientific Merit of the Generalitat Valenciana (2019). Dr. Sanz has worked extensively on air pollution and climate change and environment issues for 30 years. She has published over 150 scientific papers, among other in Nature, Nature Climate Change and PNAS, and is recognized as an expert in land use and climate change issues. She has been an advisor to and collaborated with many national and international organizations (World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, UNFCCC secretariat, Meridian Institute, the European Commission, the Green Climate Fund and the governments of Spain), and several of its regional governments, Japan, US, and several developing country governments.