Rory O’Bryen is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and the Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge.
 

We are thrilled to learn from his expertise and fascination for Colombian culture and history.  Dr. O Bryen's address will be crucial to highlighting the role research in social sciences, arts and humanities plays in the social, economic and environmental transformation of Colombia.

He has published about Colombian literature and film, about popular culture, and Latinamerican cultural studies. In his free time he's a photographer and a cat lover. He apologises to all Colombians for certain football game, feel free to reach on him about this as well… 

Serial entrepreneur with a 40 year career in technology commercialisation, including the position of CEO of Entropic, a University of Cambridge speech technology spin-out which was successfully sold to Microsoft.
Brian has worked for major global corporations – Alcan Aluminium, British Telecom & France Telecom, as well as holding senior positions in a number of technology start-up companies. MBA qualified, Brian has expertise in product marketing, business development and general management in high growth businesses.
Brian currently runs a start-up commercialising technology in the sports and fitness analytics market. He is also an Associate with Cambridge Enterprise, the Technology Transfer Office for Cambridge University, where he manages educational programmes for overseas universities and government innovation agencies, providing training, coaching and mentoring for innovative researchers and early stage entrepreneurs

Ana Maria Otero-Cleves research focuses on the History of Commodities and History of Culture and Consumption in Colombia 

Pedro Mendes Loureiro is a University Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the Centre of Latin American Studies. He holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London (UK), an MSc from the University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil) and a BA from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil). His work encompasses different aspects of the political economy of Latin America, focusing on inequality, structural change and development strategies. In particular, his recent work has assessed how the strategies of the 'Pink Tide' governments – the left-of-centre parties that were in power in Latin America roughly during the 2000s – were capable or not of upgrading the structures of their economies, reducing multidimensional inequality, and launching an inclusive, sustainable process of development. He also works on inequality measurement, heterodox frameworks in economics, class analysis, Brazilian economic history, and interdisciplinary and mixed-methods approaches.

Development economist with professional experience in science, technology and innovation management, environmental valuation techniques and the formulation of sustainable local developmental strategies. 

Ivone is a veterinarian with a MSc in Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare. She is currently doing a PhD in developing new indices and protocols for assessing laboratory mouse welfare at Newcastle University. Her research interests are in welfare assessment of laboratory animals, especially the psychological health involving qualitative indicators. She is  interested in the assessment of emotional states in animals, positive assessment and refinement of animals welfare.

Juan is a Civil Engineering Professional graduated with the Degree of Honour from the National University of Colombia in 2014. He is a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Alumni and currently a scholar from the Rodolfo Llinas Scholarship awarded by the city of Bogotá, Colombia. He is a PhD Research Student of Cohort 2 in the Future Infrastructure and Built Environment Centre for Doctoral Training of the Engineering Department, where he also finished a Master in Research in 2016.

Jorge is a sociologist with interests in the areas of religious studies, political philosophy and education. He has research and teaching experience in those areas (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad de La Salle – Bogotá and University of Birmingham). He did his undergraduate and masters studies in the National University of Colombia.He is currently finishing his PhD thesis on Religious Education at the University of Birmingham. 

Much of Matias current research activity is related to innovation policy in Latin America and in particular on transformative innovation policy. Matias gained his PhD studies at the Manchester School of Mangement, UMIST (now merged with the University of Manchester), where he analysed the relationship between work organisation and innovation in the telecommunications sector. He then worked as a researcher at Birkbeck College on projects related to the impact of globalisation on employment and cross country comparative study of management training and development in Europe. He went on to work at Brunel University between 2003-2007 and led an ESRC project on labour markets, knowledge transfer and innovation in the Zhongguacun science park. In 2007 he joined SPRU at the University of Sussex where he continued publishing on the topics of knowledge and organisations, but more recently moved towards questions of Science and Technology Policy in Latin America. He is currently part of the transformative innovation policy consortium http://tipconsortium.net/, with a particular focus on Colombia and Mexico. 

Camilo Martín-Flórez is a filmmaker and a film-researcher, whose work has been featured in various festivals and symposiums world wide. Currently, Camilo is conducting a Ph.D. research on the Colombian Film and Audiovisual Heritage at University of Bologna.

Zulma is a Colombian Medical Doctor, Master’s in Public Health and PhD in Epidemiology of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (2017). She has experience of several years in collaborative research projects and programmes on infectious disease research both in Colombia and in the UK. She has recently been awarded a prestigious MRC/Rutherford Fund Research Fellowship in the UK to undertake at Imperial College London her own project on the Global Burden of Chikungunya virus, a devastating infection in tropical areas around the world. Zulma is also the head of the project on estimating the disease burden of Chagas disease in the Americas continent, an initiative in collaboration with the Pan-American Health Organization, Princeton University, University of Sussex and Imperial College London. Zulma has been part of the group of Colombian Researchers in the UK since 2015 and she co-organised the First Colombia-UK Research Symposium hosted at Imperial College London in 2016. She has been consistently listed as one 500 most cited Colombian researchers according to Google Scholar citations. 

Alida has an MRes Speech Language and Cognition and is currently finishing her PhD at City Univeristy. Her PhD project concerns social, emotional and economic decision making in autism. By using the paradigm of Game Theory her research aims to describe the cognitive mechanisms underlying social cooperative behaviour in order to explain the extent to which ASD behaviour deviates from the patterns followed by non-autistic people.
Alida has been a leader of the organisation of various events and platforms for discussions of Colombian researchers in the UK.