Global Perspectives

En el podcast de hoy, quiero hablar sobre un tema muy interesante y poco conocido por muchos de nosotros. Me refiero al análisis electoral, y más específicamente a la geografía electoral. Tengo como invitado a Juan Pablo Milanese, jefe del departamento de estudios políticos de la universidad Icesi. Juan Pablo tiene un doctorado de la universidad de Bologna en ciencia política, y ha trabajado como investigador y profesor en la universidad Icesi durante más de diez años. Link a la biografía de Juan Pablo: https://www.icesi.edu.co/profesores/cv/juan-milanese

How can we make our universities more sustainable? Should universities integrate courses on sustainability and the environment on the curricula of their degrees? I will be discussing these questions with Soem Zeijlmans, a student of Governance, Economics, and Development at Leiden University College in The Hague. He is also the Sustainable Operations Coordinator at his university’s green office.

Check out the Green Office's work on their site: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/green-office

In this episode, I want to focus on three very interesting topics: Cyprus, academia, and theories. Our guest from today has managed to link these three issues very well. I have interviewed Vasileios Karakasis, a PhD student at the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University. His research focuses on Cyprus, energy security, and the Mediterranean.

I have invited dr. David Zetland, a university lecturer at Leiden University College, and author of several books related to water, sustainability, and political economy. During the podcast, we discuss a bit about his academic career, about water management, and about how to make a change when it comes to sustainability.

Check out David's bio: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/david-zetland#tab-1

For this podcast, I invited the early child development expert Leonardo Yánez to talk about education policies, child development, and education trends in the Latin American region. . Leonardo has worked as a lecturer in different Venezuelan universities, he was a consultant to UNICEF, and he was the national director of early child education in Venezuela. Currently, he works as the senior representative for Latin America in the Bernard van Leer Foundation.

Check out Leonardo's bio: https://bernardvanleer.org/team/j-leonardo-yanez/

This is Global Perspectives, the multi-disciplinary podcast that discusses local, national, and international issues from a global angle. Episodes from this podcast focus on topics related to the challenges our societies face today.