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CURRICULUM VITAE english


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 was Regional Adviser for Social Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean and Director of the International Institute of Higher Education of UNESCO for Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC). He is currently, Member of the UNESCO Forum in Higher Education, Research and Knowledge. Member of the CLACSO's Working Group on University and Society. Academic Adviser of the Global University Network for Innovation (GUN). Editor of "Higher Education in the World" Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).

Working languages: Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Visiting Professor (Titular) of “International Education” and “Globalization and higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean” in the PhD on “Processes of building virtual spaces”. University of Salamanca, Spain (2002-2004).

June 2004 up to the present, Academic Advisor of the Global University Network for Innovation (GUNI), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. Editor of “Higher Education in the World”, a yearly Report on Higher Education published by GUNI. Professor of International Education and International Comparative Higher Education in the UNESCO Chair of University Management of UPC.

December 2002 up to the present, Member of the Latin America and the Caribbean Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge. Member of the Working Group of University and Society of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). Member of the Research Network on Higher Education (RISESU).

Visiting Professor since 2006, of International Education and International Comparative Higher Education in the UNESCO Chair of the Palermo University, Buenos Aires. Visiting Professor since 2002, of Prospective Studies and Knowledge Management” in the International Master (MBA) of the Universidad Externado de Colombia, Bogotá.

Former Vice-President of the UNESCO Commission of the Cultural Decade (1994). Director of the UNESCO Journal “Higher Education and Society (1999-2001).

Key Note Speaker in a great number of Conferences and International Seminars as: 1) World Congress of Catholic Universities summoned by the International Federation of Catholic Universities (FIUC) “Globalization and Catholic Higher Education". Vatican City, on December 2-6, 2006. 2) Latin-American Congress of Catholic Universities summoned by the FIUC. "Latin America: Globalization and Higher Education" Catholic Pontificia Universidad do Rio Grande do Sul, on April 6, 2006. 3) " Higher Education and Globalization in the context of the social and human transformation ". 70 Anniversary of the University Pontificia Bolivarian, Medellin, Colombia, on September 8, 2006.

Has been Professor of Sociology in ISRI (1972-1986) and in the University of Salamanca (2003-2004). Visiting Professor of Cuban History and Latin America and Caribbean History at the Institute of High Latin American Studies (IHEAL), Paris (1992, 1995) and in the Institute of Iberoamerican Studies, University of Bordeaux (1991, 2003, 2006). Visiting Professor of International Education and International Comparative Higher Education, in the Boston College Centre for International Higher Education (Fall 2001). Visiting Professor of “Prospective on Globalization in Latin America and the Caribbean”, Binghamton University, Fernand Braudel Centre (2001). Visiting Professor of International Education in the Department of Education, Oxford University (June 2007).

He has been Visiting Professor in fourteen (14) universities of Latin America, Africa, Spain, USA, France, Austria, Canada and Russia. He has offered lectures in more than 50 universities all over the World, including China, several European countries and African countries.

He has worked closely in international cooperation activities, international education as well as in research and teaching activities with the following Professors:

Federico Mayor Zaragoza. Former Director General of UNESCO. He worked under his leadership at UNESCO and since 2002 up to the present in initiatives concerning “Culture of Peace”. His book “Latin America and the Caribbean in the XXI Century”, (2004) UNAM, Mexico D.F, has the Foreword of Mr. Mayor.

Immanuel Wallerstein. Former President of the International Sociological Association (ISA). He worked with him in his “Research Seminar” at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris, 1995), later in the Fernand Braudel (2001), and in the International Sociological Association (1998), when Professor Wallerstein was his President. The Introduction to his already mentioned book -“Latin America and the Caribbean in the XXI Century”, (2004) - was written by Professor Wallerstein, former Director of the Fernand Braudel Centre.

Phillip Altbach. They have a close collaboration since 2001, when he was Visiting Professor at the CIHE (Boston College). Professor Altbach, Director of the CIHE, did the Preface to his book “Latin American Higher Education and International Organizations”.

John Daniel. Former Vice-Chancellor of the Open University and former Assistant Director General of UNESCO for Education. He worked with him at UNESCO preparing – as postdoctoral studies- a Report on the Impact of the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, published later as a book.

Bruce Johnstone. Former Chancellor of the State University of New York. He worked with him in the preparation of “Higher Education in the World 2006”. Miguel Angel Escotet. He is Visiting Professor in the PhD of the UNESCO Chair on Higher Education, whose Director is Professor Escotet, who is currently Director of Postgraduate Studies at Deusto University (Spain) and has just been appointed as Dean of Education in the University of Texas, Brownsville.

Colin Brock. Holds the UNESCO Chair of Education as Humanitarian Response at the University of Oxford. He is co-author with Professor Brock of “Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean 2008”. The book is now in printing and will be published in English and Spanish.

Edgar Morin and Illya Prigogine: He worked with them in an editorial Project whose result was the book “Representation et Complexite” (UNESCO, 1997), with articles of Morin, Prigogine and Lopez Segrera, among other authors.

Jose Joaquin Brunner: Former Minister of the Presidency in Chile. He is co-author of several books with Brunner and publishes on line in his web.

Carlos Tunnermann: Former Minister of Education in Nicaragua. He is co-author of several books with Tunnermann, who was his Principal Adviser when Lopez Segrera was Director of IESALC, UNESCO.

Daniel Filmus: Former Minister of Education in Argentina. He is co-author with Filmus of Latin America 2020. (2000). FLACSO, Buenos Aires.

He has published books and articles addressing the following topics:

History, Economy, Slavery in the Americas. International Education. Globalization and Higher Education, World Scenarios of Higher Education, Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. International Higher Education: a comparative study. Some of these publications have been translated and published in France, Spain, the United States, Japan, China, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina and Chile.

He is author of 14 books. 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. Such as, Cuba: Dependent Capitalism and Underdevelopment (Casa de las Americas,1972); Historical Roots of the Cuban Revolution (1980); Education in the horizon of the 21st Century (UNESCO, 2000); Globalization and Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO, 2001); Latin America 2020, (FLACSO, 2000); Impact of the World Conference of Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO, 2002); Latin America Higher Education and International Organizations (UNESCO, 2002); Latin America and the Caribbean in the 21st Century (UNAM, 2004). Last published book: World Scenarios of Higher Education (CLACSO, 2006). Launched in the Fair of the book of Barcelona (2006).

LIST OF SOME ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

"Dependence, plantation economy and social classes”. In Between Slavery and Free Labour, M. Moreno Fraginals, Frank Moya Pons and Stanley Engerman.

John’s Hopkins University, Press, 1985.

“The Countries None Aligned“. Tricontinental, September 1979.

“Lezama Lima”. Caravelle Nº 16, 1971. Antologie des écrivains cubains. Université de Toulouse.

Cuba: alternatives to the energy crisis”. Iberoamericana, Tokyo, 2° semester1994.

“Response to Edelstein”. Latin American Perspectives, fall, 1995.

“The representation of displaced identities”. In C. Mendes editor. Représentation et Complexité. Co-authored with E. Morin, I. Prigogine, J. Bindé et al. Río de Janeiro, 1997

“The importance of Latin America university research in a globalize world”, in Higher Education in the XXI Century. CRESALC/UNESCO Editions. Caracas, 1998.

“Esclavage et société dans les Caraïbes (1900-1930)”, dans La chaîne et le Lien. Une vision de la traite negrière. UNESCO, Paris, 1998.

“The Future of Social Sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean”. In Sociology in Latin America. Editors: R. Briceño-León y H. Sonntag. International Sociological Association (ISA). 1998

“Emergencia y crisis del populismo en Cuba (1940-1952)”. In J. Cohen et F. Moulin (editors).- Cuba sous le régime de la Constitución de 1940. L´Harmattan, Paris, 1997.

“Loss of identities and clash of cultures: the representation of displaced identities and the Puerto Rican Case". Revista Jurídica de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico. Vol. XXXIII, January-April 1999, No 2.

“Raizes, conseqüências e propostas alternativas á hegemonia unipolar e á globalização” Em Os impasses da globalização. Hegemonía e contra-hegemonía. Coordinador T. Dos Santos. Editora PUC Río, Ediciones Loyola y REGGEN. Sao Paulo, 2003

“Higher education and research in the Latin American Region”. UNESCO Forum. ED.04/Conf.611/35. Paris 22 November.

“Global tendencies and perspectives on higher education in today’s world”. Co-authored with B. C. Sanyal and J. Tres. In Higher Education in the World 2006. The Financing of Universities. Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke, 2006.

“Higher education in Canada. In Higher Education in the World 2006. The Financing of Universities. Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke, 2006.

Higher education in the Caribbean”. In Higher Education in the World 2006. The Financing of Universities. Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke, 2006.

An overview of regional perspectives on accreditation in today’s world”. Co-authored with B. C. Sanyal and J. Tres. In Higher Education in the World 2007. Accreditation for quality assurance. What is at stake? Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke, 2006.

“The approach to the concepts of quality and accreditation at the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education (1998) and follow up meetings.” In Higher Education in the World 2007. Accreditation for quality assurance. What is at stake? Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke, 2006.

“Glossary on Accreditation” Co-authored with Y. Cruz. In Higher Education in the World 2007. Accreditation for quality assurance. What is at stake? Palgrave Macmillan. Hampshire, 2006.

“Sociología de la Neocolonia Cubana”. En I. Murillo: El pensamiento hispánico en América: siglos XVI-XX. Publicaciones Universidad Pontificia. Salamanca, 2007.

“Escenarios Mundiales y Regionales de la educación superior”. Avaliacao, v.12, n. 03, setembro 2007.

Last published articles:

"Possible world scenarios of higher education". Perfiles Educativos, numbers 109-110, 2005. CESU, UNAM

"Higher education worldwide". Revista Paraguaya de Sociología. Year 42, Number 124, Sept-Dec 2005.

“Latin America and the Caribbean: main trends of higher education ". Avaliacao, Vol. 11 - n. 3 set 2006.

Last book published on line: “Comparative Higher Education: Scenarios, Themes and Problems” (2007)

http://mt.educarchile.cl/mt/jjbrunner/archives/2007/05/educacion_super_14.html

He has just finished the book “Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean 2008" as co-author with Colin Brock, Professor of the University of Oxford. The edition in Spanish will appear in the Regional Conference of Higher Education of UNESCO (IESALC). Cartagena, Colombia, June 2008. At the end of the summer the edition will appear in English

Experience in Teaching in Virtual Courses:

He has given three courses (2003-2006) in the Virtual Campus of the Latin-American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), on " International Higher Education", "Higher Education Financing" and "Prospective Studies: World and Regional Scenarios".

Since 2002, he gives two annual virtual-presencial courses in the MBA of Universidad Externado, one of the 10th Accredited Universities in Colombia. Teacher in the mentioned Doctorate of “Processes of Formation in Virtual Spaces”, University of Salamanca (2002-2004).

Since 2006, he gives an annual course virtual-presencial in the UNESCO Chair on Higher Education and in the UNESCO Chair on University Management.

MAIN ACTIVITIES AS CONSULTANT

Between 1980 and 2008 has offered services of consultancy in more than 40 universities in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Italy and Spain. This works as consultant include University Building, University Transformation and Institutional Projects for universities without them, as well as development of “Strategic Plans” for universities without them. Advice in the preparation and development of research plans of teachers (post-graduate courses of various kinds, master and doctor degrees). Building up capacities through elaboration of curricula and programs of the various subjects. Advise concerning management and evaluation processes as well as in financing techniques and accreditation. Courses to university leaders and professors (with the aim of developing a transformation) in themes such as: university history, international education, management, financing, accreditation, internationalization, scenarios of higher education world wide, building of curricula and programs of specific subjects.

As a rule, the method we have used in consultancy is a participative one. This implies to work in the preparation of documents, conferences and workshops with university leaders as well as with members of faculty. To achieve success this method is a key one, otherwise the transformation of the university fails. Changes should be the result of a collective learning and not of unilateral recommendations ignoring the faculty feelings and criteria.

The proper follow up of consultancy activities in order to control the behaviour of key indicators is an essential task.

Preparation of Delphi Pools has contributed a great deal in key themes of higher education such as financing, evaluation and accreditation.

We also have had the style of working in permanent consultation with colleagues of formal (UNESCO Forum, GUNI, AIU, and CLACSO) and of our informal networks.

Themes of main courses delivered in universities of various countries (Cuba, Brazil, Bolivia, Honduras, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Equatorial Guinea, Benin, Zimbabwe, Spain, France, USA, and China) in the period 2000-2008:

1. – Mega-tendencies and World Scenarios.

2. - Trends of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean.

3. - The methodology of prospective studies.

4. - Prospective of higher education.

5. - World Scenarios of higher education.

6. - A comparative study of higher education financing at World level.

7. - Globalization and higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean.

8. - Impact of Globalization on higher education at World Level.

9. - Comparative International higher education: An inventory of scenarios, themes and problems.

10. - International Education.

11. - Challenges for Latin American Public Universities in a knowledge society: ¿Is the model of the “world class” or “research universities” the solution? “

12.- Regional perspectives on accreditation of higher education.

13. - Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital.

14. -Cuba in Transition: Possible Scenarios.

15. - Higher Education for Human and Social Development.

16. - Social Commitment and Social Responsibility of Universities.

17. - Latin America and the Caribbean in Transition: Possible Scenarios.

18. - From the Information Society towards the Knowledge Society.

19. - A Worldwide Critical Inventory and analysis of Higher Education Networks and Organizations.

20. - Development and Higher Education: sociological significance of enrolment and ranking.