HUMANITIES WEEK: 5 SCHOOLS, 5 DEANS, 5 PERSPECTIVES OF HUMANITIES

Assumpta Serna

Assumpta Serna works as an actress in more than 100 films and 38 TV series of wide impact for 40 years in 20 countries in 6 languages. His latest films are "I killed my husband" "Red de libertad" and "Bernarda".
He has won 25 International Awards for his work and has been a jury in more than 30 international film festivals. He has been a member of the American Film Academy since 1993. He has produced, along with the producer WILDCARD (UK), a documentary: FRESCO-FIASCO about the media phenomenon of Ecce-homo restored / painted / destroyed by Cecilia Jiménez in the city of Borja.

She has 30 years of experience as a Communication Professional and 16 years as a Teacher. She has been the Manager of Cultural Associations such as EFA (European Film Academy and AISGE), managing the intellectual property rights of artists, organizer of European events (European Film Awards in Barcelona with a budget of 1,800,000 euros) and Theatrical Events.

Since the publication of his book in Cátedra, in 1999: "THE WORK OF THE CINEMA ACTOR", she has developed an intense activity in the field of education, through the school and a first team international foundation, created together with Scott Cleverdon . Currently, they teach the Master's Degree in CINEMATOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION.

Assumpta Serna boosts the visibility of "different" and disabled people in the audiovisual sector. In particular, the community of deaf people thanks to the alliance with the COMMUNICATES Group, integrating them in their training courses and in the events in which they participate, such as the Three Kings' Cavalcade in 2017 and 2018 or the theatrical initiative "Signótica" that wants to stimulate companies, institutions and people to communicate, inform and integrate the million deaf people with the rest of society,
More information about actress: imdb.com/name/nm0785264/

Scott Cleverdon

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Coach and Teacher.

Scott Cleverdon is an Actor, Director, screenwriter, Coach and Teacher. His professional career as an actor and screenwriter began in the United Kingdom, continued in the United States. He has worked intensely in 55 big and small budget films with great directors and producers such as Milos Forman or Sergio Cabrera. His work has been developed in Canada, Poland, Nigeria, Mexico, Colombia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. He has put voice to emblematic characters in animation series and video games, such as Jedi Knight, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Carnage, Spider-Man, Gargoyles or Batman Beyond.

Within the first team Foundation, as coach and teacher, he has taught about 11,000 hours of training to 3469 students in eight countries. Advises directors and writers in the writing of their scripts. He has written the movie Amazing Grace, the first 35mm film shot in Nigeria. He is also a coach in on-camera communication for top executives of companies. He has taught more than 21 conferences and seminars in leadership, institutional communication, to 435 businessmen and 90 trainers, percussing in more than 2800 listeners in seven Spanish-speaking countries and in 23 cities around the world.
More information at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0166526/

Alessandra Chichi

EVP and General Counsel

HBO

Alessandra is EVP, General Counsel and Business Affairs for HBO Europe. In her current role, she is responsible for a variety of legal and commercial matters relating to original production, distribution, content acquisition, regulatory and compliance, as well as expansion into new European markets. She oversees a team of 15 lawyers located across HBO’s European offices in Scandinavia, Central Europe and Spain. Based in Madrid, she is also acting as office head for HBO’s Spanish operations. Alessandra has worked at HBO for over 6 years, initially based in HBO headquarters in New York.

Prior to HBO, Alessandra was a mergers and acquisition lawyer in private practice in New York for over eight years. Alessandra has an LL.B. from the London School of Economics and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Whit Preston

Architectural Photographer

Whit Preston grew up in Honolulu and studied photography at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Since graduating, he has pursued both commercial photography and fine art, working for 11 years in Los Angeles, spending nearly 6 years of that working in-house for the architect Frank O. Gehry as their full time photographer. Prior to moving to Austin, he worked for 4 years in New Zealand, photographing for various magazines and clients

Marta García Aller

Journalist and Author

El Independiente

Marta García Aller (Madrid, 1980) is a journalist and writer. The success of her latest book, 'The end of the world as we know it' (Planeta, 2017), has made it a benchmark for digital transformation and the analysis of technological changes. Before joining El Independiente, the newspaper where she works since its foundation, she went through the editorial offices of El Mundo, Actualidad Económica and Efe. She collaborates daily in the program La Brújula de Onda Cero, as an analyst of economics and chronicler of the news. Since 2010 she is an associate professor at the IE School of Human Sciences and Technology at IE Business School. She has received some of the most prestigious awards in economic journalism. 'The end of the world as we know it' is her third book.

Víctor Cobos

Co-Founder & CEO

M&C Saatchi

Co-founder & CEO of M&C Saatchi Sponsorship; Victor Cobos is a British-Spanish Executive with over 15 years of experience in the Sports, Culture & Entertainment Industry. He has worked some of the most iconic sports events such as Formula One and a broad range of events including Robbie Williams and One Direction's live concert tours and festivals on a global scale. M&C Saatchi Sponsorship is a new company created at the heart of M&C Saatchi's approach ‘Brutal Simplicity of Thought’ ’ – the principle that it is far easier to complicate and much harder to simplify and the belief that simple ideas enter the brain quicker and stay there longer. By combining Brutal Simplicity with shared passion, industry insight, diversity of thought, innovation and pioneering creative, M&C Saatchi Sponsorship develop integrated campaigns which maximize further revenue streams for right holders and deliver successful innovative solutions for brands, connecting to consumers through the things people love.

Ozren Jungic

DPhil, Oxford

Dr. Ozren Jungic is a Research Fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for International History at the University of Toronto. Prior to that, Ozren worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit, and at the Office of the Prosecutor of the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.
Ozren holds a MA and PhD in Modern History from the University of Oxford, and he often uses the insights of the Humanities to improve his policy policy analysis and decision-making.

Isabel Pérez Dobarro

Pianist and representative of Sustainable Development Solutions Network initiative,

SDSN Youth

Isabel Pérez Dobarro. Pianist and representative of Sustainable Development Solutions Network initiative, SDSN Youth. “The role of humanities in peacekeeping”.

Bio


Isabel Pérez Dobarro is the UN-Focal Point and Arts Twenty Thirty Project Lead at UNSDSN-Youth, an organization that works globally to empower young people in the SDG´s implementation. Isabel has received a J.D. in Law in Spain (UNED), a Master´s Degree at New York University, and is currently completing her Ph.D. at New York University (where she started serving as an Adjunct Instructor at age 19), an International Relations Certificate at Harvard University and the Harvard Business School HBX Core Program.

Pérez Dobarro has been a speaker, panelist, and moderator at several high-level conferences related to sustainable development and arts, including the ECOSOC Youth Forum, Nobel Peace Prize Forum, the Winter and the Summer Youth Assembly at the United Nations, the Vatican Youth Symposium, the Conferencia Universidad y Cooperación al Desarrollo, and the European Arts Forum at the European Parliament, among others. She has given lectures at New York University, University of Michigan, Columbia University, and University of Vechta (Germany). In addition to her involvement in UNSDSN-Youth, Pérez Dobarro is the Western European Representative of the Fair Air Coalition organization and the President of the Kappa Delta Pi´s International Society of Education Beta Pi Chapter. She is also one of the leading concert pianists of her generation. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow, receiving numerous awards such as the Grande Prize Virtuoso and the American Protegé Prize.