UNU Council Members
Professor Hebe Maria Cristina Vessuri
Chair of Council; Head and Senior Researcher, Department of Science Studies, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research
Hebe Vessuri is Senior Researcher and Head of the Department of Science Studies at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC). She is President of the Latin America Scientific Committee of UNESCO's Forum on Higher Education, Research, and Knowledge and current editor-in-chief of UNESCO's International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) journal. She is former Vice President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and is currently a Council member of United Nations University (UNU) as well as sitting on a number of other scientific committees, including the International Human Development Programme on Global Change (IHDP) and ICSU's Committee for Scientific Planning and Review. She received the 2006 National Science Award from the Venezuelan Ministry of Science and Technology. During her career, she has held various teaching and research positions at universities in Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela. She holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.
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