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huGo bArreto
Hugo Barreto is the Secretary-General of the Roberto Marinho Foundation (part of the Globo
media conglomerate), a Brazilian institution set up in 1997 to coordinate projects related to
education, the environment, heritage and television.
PAuline Couture
Pauline Couture is an author and strategic communication consultant whose career has
encompassed all aspects of broadcasting, including journalism, on-air performance,
production, strategy, regulatory work and executive management. Her consultancy portfolio
includes public and private sector clients, as well as foundations from Canada and around
the world. She is highly sought-after as a public speaker and moderator in many fields. She
is a language lover who writes and works in French and English, and is currently studying
Mandarin.
GeetA dhArmArAjAn
Geeta Dharmarajan is a writer, editor and educator, as well as the Executive Director of
Katha, a non-profit organization she founded in 1988. Her innovative, award-winning work is
geared to uniting India’s different language communities. She views translation as a means
of fostering unity, reinforcing diversity and offering the illiterate equity and the opportunity
to participate in lifelong learning. Her efforts to further education and reduce poverty have
brought change and introduced the joy of reading to 8 million women and children in slums
and tribal villages.
AzzA ezzAt
Azza Ezzat holds a BSc in tourism and hotels from the University of Alexandria, and is
currently studying for a master’s degree in caricature, humour and satire in ancient Egypt
during the New Kingdom. During her career at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, she has organized
numerous writing, calligraphy and inscription events, and participated in the editing and
translation of several books, including History of Writing: From Ideogram to Multimedia,
for which she received a prize from the Kuwait Foundation, How to Read Ancient Egyptian
Language and Lost Languages.
hugo barreto Pauline Couture
Geeta dharmarajan
Azza ezzat