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The head organizer of From Wall to Wall and an advisor to FIL Guadalajara, he has authored and co-authored several books of cultural essays, as well as two plays. He is also a contributor to El Heraldo de México newspaper, which also hosts his podcast La pinche complejidad, as well as to Latinus.

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An architect with several projects featured in the architectural collection of the Centre Pompidou, she has served as visiting professor at Columbia and Yale. Her projects include the Culiacán Botanical Garden, the Chapel of Gratitude on the Pilgrim's Route in Jalisco, Mexico, the Biotechnological Building of the TEC university’s Sinaloa campus and a sustainable housing prototype whose productions costs hover around $10,000. Ms. Bilbao is the recipient of this year's ArpaFIL tribute from FIL.

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A professor of Social Sciences at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, his most recent book, The Divide, examines the role truth plays in politics and the ways in which fanatical certainties undermine democracy.

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A writer, linguist, translator, researcher and activist hailing from Ayutla Mixe, Oaxaca, she holds a BofA in Hispanic Language and Literature, as well as a master's degree in Linguistics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has collaborated in various projects for the promotion of linguistic diversity, works for the Juan de Córdova Research Library in Oaxaca and writes for El País newspaper.

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A law graduate from Mexico City’s Autonomous Technological Institute, she holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. She worked 7 years as a researcher at ITAM before moving to Valle de Bravo, where she fostered the creation of the Valle de Bravo Trust for forest property conservation. She is co-founder of the Universidad del Medio Ambiente (University of the Environment), based in said community, of which she currently serves as dean.

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A graduate of Guadalajara’s ITESO, his professional practice has focused on trend analysis-based content generation and, more recently, on social listening analysis by way statistical tools. He has worked for Geomundo, Día Siete, Chilango and Life & Style, Univision and tv unam. A recipient of the Pantalla de Cristal Award in 2016, he currently serves as a professor at ITESO, where he coordinates the Information Lab.

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Holding a PhD in Political Science from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, he is a researcher at Mexico City’s Centre for Economic Research and Development (CIDE), where he chairs the ·Mexico, the Americas and the World survey. His research subjects include public opinion, voting and political disaffection. He is a co-author of a study on how to measure political polarization through emotions, published in Nexos magazine in 2022.

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A researcher at the Policy and Public Property Institute of Spain’s Superior Council of Scientific Research, his field of work includes the relationship between socioeconomic status and the acknowledgement of merit and effort as values, as well as the link between identity, political polarization and trust.

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A Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Guadalajara, he holds a PhD from the University of León in Spain. He founded and served as director of the state of Jalisco’s Food Health, Safety and Quality Agency (ASICA). He currently heads the Agricultural Sciences and Engineering Division of the University of Guadalajara’s Centro Universitario de Los Altos.

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An economist from the University of Guadalajara, she holds a PhD in Cooperation and Social Intervention from the University of Oviedo in Spain. She has served as Minister for Education in Mexico City and dean of the Centro Universitario de los Altos of the University of Guadalajara. She has also been elected to Mexican federal Congress and currently serves as local congresswoman in Jalisco.

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An author of both fiction and non-fiction, he studied film at Mexico’s Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. He is a contributor to Mexican and international media outlets such as Nexos, Televisa, Radio Caracol, Imagen Radio, El País and W Radio, where he broaches topics related to the Middle East, culture, politics, philosophy and religion. Casa Damasco, Pensar Medio Oriente, Clandestino and Lo que hicimos mal los adultos are among his books.

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A professor of Political Science at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and an associate professor at the University of Denver, he has served as president of the World Association for Public Opinion Research Latinoamérica. His best-known works focus on topics such as political disaffection, institutional trust, party system institutionalization and political behaviour.