Jesús Francisco de Asís Cruz Villalón is a prominent Spanish jurist, widely recognized as an expert in labor and social security law. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in law from the University of Seville.

Dr. Cruz is currently a full professor of Labor and Social Security Law at the University of Seville. At that university, he has served as director of the Department of Labor and Social Security Law. He has also held professorships at the universities of Cádiz and Valladolid. At the University of Cádiz, he served as dean of the School of Law and director of the Department of Labor Law.

Dr. Cruz has maintained a close relationship with our university’s School of Law and the Academic Department of Law. He has served as an instructor in our university’s Second Specialization Program (PSE) and in the Master’s Program in Labor and Social Security Law. In addition, during the first semester of 2024, Dr. Cruz worked with the Law School’s Curriculum Committee and faculty members in the Labor Law area of our university’s Academic Department of Law to review the syllabi for labor law courses, with the aim of determining how these courses contribute to the PUCP law degree program’s curriculum.

Néstor Raúl García Canclini is one of the most influential Latin American scholars and intellectuals in the fields of communication and cultural studies. He is an internationally recognized author for researchers, faculty, and students in disciplines such as communication, anthropology, and sociology. He has made a remarkable contribution to the study and understanding of communication, art, cultural industries, and popular culture in Latin America. Furthermore, his work has broadened the horizons of Latin American intellectual activity through his studies on ideology and power, the sociocultural transformations experienced in recent decades as a result of globalization and the technological revolution, and cultural policies in the region.

NBorn in Ibahernando, Cáceres (Spain), he holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Throughout his distinguished career, he has exceptionally combined his work as a writer, teacher, essayist, and public intellectual, establishing himself as an influential voice in the Hispanic cultural sphere. Dr. Cercas has received numerous honors from academic institutions throughout his career. In November 2024, he became a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he took his seat R after delivering his inaugural address titled “Misunderstandings of Modernity. A Manifesto.” In addition to his work as a professor at the University of Girona (Spain) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U.S.), he has held honorary professorships at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy), St. Anne’s College at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom), and Diego Portales University (Chile). He has also led seminars, given lectures, and delivered master classes at prestigious universities in Europe and the Americas.

Paul M. Romer holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He is a professor at New York University’s School of Law and College of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at the following universities: the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, and New York University’s Stern School of Business. At the latter institution, Dr. Romer previously served as a visiting professor (Henry Kauffman Visiting Professor).

In recognition of his achievements, Dr. Romer was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics (The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018), which he shared with William D. Nordhaus. In addition, Dr. Romer has been honored with the 2002 Horst Claus Recktenwald Prize in Economics and the 1999 Stanford Business School’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

Dr. Paul M. Romer has dedicated his career to studying the intersection of economics, innovation, technology, and urbanization, with a particular focus on accelerating human progress. Dr. Romer also advises business and government leaders around the world in various sectors on ways to leverage technology and innovation to drive long-term growth. He received the Nobel Prize in 2018 for integrating technological innovations into long-term macroeconomic analysis. Based on his observation that Robert Solow’s dominant economic model fails to explain the broad and persistent differences in output growth rates—and departing from the prevailing research, which treated technological change as an exogenous factor—Dr. Romer demonstrated how ideas for new goods and services could emerge in a market economy. Dr. Romer demonstrated that unregulated markets drive technological change but tend to underdeliver on research and development and the creation of new goods; hence, well-designed government policies—such as subsidies and patent regulation—are necessary.

Professor Roger Chartier—a leading figure in the prestigious Annales School—is an internationally recognized specialist in the field of cultural history and contemporary thought in general.
Professor Chartier’s historiographical proposals have had a profound impact on cultural history in recent decades. There are few fields of contemporary research
in the history of written culture in which his influence is not evident: forms of reading, the spaces of books, inscribed writing, dramatic publishing, and the
of concepts or titles, the circulation of news, collecting, translation, the vicissitudes of copyright, the role of typesetters and other printing house officials, and
book merchants as financiers of print runs, and the transition from print to digital—to name just the most relevant examples.

Professor Chartier’s published works are extensive, and his research proposals—notably those focusing on the history of the book and reading—have opened up numerous and innovative
thematic areas in cultural history, which have extended into various fields of the humanities and social sciences.

Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in 1948. He holds a PhD from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. At that university, Dr. Gurnah served as Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures and as director of undergraduate studies; he is currently Professor Emeritus of English and Postcolonial Literatures. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2007, he received the RFI Témoin du Monde Award, presented by Radio France Internationale (RFI). He was subsequently awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.

As a writer, Dr. Gurnah has authored ten novels and several short stories. Among his novels are *Paradise*, *By the Sea*, *Desertion*, and *Afterlives*. As a scholar, Dr. Gurnah has edited several volumes of *Essays on African Writing*. He has also edited *A Companion to Salman Rushdie*. He has published articles on contemporary postcolonial writers.

Dr. Gurnah is an outstanding writer who has made extraordinary contributions to contemporary literature, distinguished by his reflections on colonialism, migration, and the complexities of identity in postcolonial contexts. Through his stories, Dr. Gurnah has masterfully portrayed the experiences of people living in situations of displacement and diaspora, and has shed light on the reality of many African peoples and other communities affected by colonialism.

The theme of the refugee's dislocation runs through all of Dr. Gurnah's narrative work since he began writing at the age of 21 while in exile in England, and although Swahili was his first language, English became his literary medium. Throughout his narrative body of work, Gurnah has strived to avoid the pervasive nostalgia for a precolonial Africa.

Dr. Gurnah breaks with convention, shifting the colonial perspective to highlight that of indigenous peoples. His prose rejects the stereotypical descriptions that have so deeply shaped the history of England and Africa, and offers a new perspective on the continent—one that is far more diverse and unknown in other parts of the world.

In 2021, Dr. Gurnah received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his “poignant depiction of the effects of colonialism and the plight of the refugee in the chasm between cultures and continents.” In addition to his literary impact, Dr. Gurnah has been an outstanding scholar at the University of Kent, where he has taught several generations of students in postcolonial studies and English literature. His teaching and research have marked a significant milestone in the study of the relationships between power, history, and culture, promoting a humanistic and critical view of the world. As a scholar, Dr. Gurnah’s research has focused on postcolonialism, as well as colonialism—particularly as it relates to Africa, the Caribbean, and India.

Dr. Gurnah’s work is particularly relevant to the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru because it addresses issues that invite critical reflection on Latin American and global realities. Awarding this academic honor to Dr. Gurnah would reaffirm our university’s commitment to intercultural dialogue and the pursuit of a deep understanding of contemporary social and political phenomena.

Emilio Morgado Valenzuela is a prominent Chilean jurist, considered one of the most distinguished figures in Chilean and Latin American labor law academia. He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Chile. He is licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of Chile. He has completed graduate studies at Cornell University: The New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Ithaca, New York, United States.

Regarding his teaching and research experience, Professor Morgado has served as a professor at the Center for Trade Union and Cooperative Studies at the University of Chile; as a professor of Business Administration and Labor Law at the Technical Pedagogical Institute of the Technical University of the State—now the University of Santiago; Full Professor of Labor Law at the School of Economics at the University of Chile; Full Professor of Labor Law at the School of Law at the University of Chile; and Visiting Professor at the Ibero-American Center for Industrial Relations at the University of Alcalá de Henares (Spain).

Professor Morgado serves as a consultant, both in his home country and internationally, on labor law, labor relations, and labor administration, particularly on topics such as the labor aspects of integration and free trade processes; individual and collective labor law and relations; labor administration and inspection; international and comparative labor law; social security; social dialogue, consultation, and social agreements; labor relations in the public sector and state-owned enterprises; and conflict prevention and resolution.

In his home country, Chile, Professor Morgado has held numerous positions, most notably as Researcher and Chief Advisor in the Department of Labor Relations at INSORA (Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, University of Chile), where he also directed the Trade Union Education Program; Director of the Labor Relations Program at the Center for Public Policy Analysis at the University of Chile; Chair of the Board of the Fund for the Modernization of Labor Relations and Union Development; Director of the Institute for Labor Studies at La República University; and Member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Labor and Equity.

On the international stage, Professor Morgado has served as an official with the International Labor Organization (ILO) as an expert in labor administration, labor relations, and collective bargaining; Regional Advisor on Labor Law and Labor Relations for Latin America; Director of the ILO Subregional Office for Central America and Panama; Director of the Inter-American Center for Labor Administration (CIAT); Deputy Regional Director of the ILO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean; and Director of the ILO Subregional Office for the Andean Countries. In addition, he served as Senior Technical Advisor on labor matters to the Secretariat for Social Affairs of the Organization of American States (OAS). In the course of his duties—and later as an independent consultant—Professor Morgado has developed and directed significant technical cooperation activities in nearly all Latin American countries.

Throughout his career, Professor Morgado has demonstrated his strong democratic convictions and his commitment to defending workers’ rights. He has chaired or served on organizing and steering committees for numerous international conferences and meetings. Professor Morgado has authored more than 120 publications, including books, book chapters, and articles published in academic journals.

Professor Morgado has received various honors and awards: an honorary doctorate from the University of Bordeaux (France); the rank of Commander of the Order of Judicial Merit in Labor (Brazil); the Labor Peace Award from the Peruvian Association of Industrial Relations (the only foreigner to have received this award); Honorary Professor at the Externado University of Colombia; Diploma of Honor for Merit from the Honduran Bar Association; Honorary Professor at the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic); the rank of Commander of the Order of Labor (Peru); and Honorary Professor at the Central University of the East (Dominican Republic).