Plenary - SHAPE & STEM: Molding New Generations of Global Changemakers 

Julia Black

Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford and President of the British Academy

Julia Black is Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford and President of the British Academy, the UK’s National Academy for social sciences and the humanities.  She is also an External Member of the Bank of England’s Financial Markets Infrastructure Committee; a member of the Prime Minister’s Council of Science and Technology; and a Governor of the Courtauld Institute of Art.  She is currently a visiting Professor at LSE Law School and a Professor of Law and Regulation at Oxford University.    

Karim El Aynaoui

Executive Vice-President of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Dean of Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences. Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South

Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P)

Karim El Aynaoui is Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South. He is also Executive Vice-President of Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Dean of its Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences Cluster. He is an economist. From 2005 to 2012, he worked at the Central Bank of Morocco where he held the position of Director of Economics, Statistics, and International Relations. At the Central Bank of Morocco, he was in charge of the Research Department and equally a member of the Governor’s Cabinet. Previously, he worked for eight years at the World Bank as an Economist for its regional units of the Middle East and North Africa and Africa. Karim El Aynaoui holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bordeaux in France where he taught courses in Statistics and Economics for three years. He is Commendatore of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Susana Torres Prieto

Assistant Professor of Humanities and International Relations

IE University

Susana Torres Prieto is an Assistant Professor of Humanities and International Relations at IE University. She has developed her academic and research career in the areas of Slavic and Medieval Studies. She has specialized on Russian literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, as well as the transmission of knowledge. She has taught at various universities in Spain and abroad and has led multiple international research groups. Currently, she is a Research Associate at Harvard University, where she serves as the Scientific Director of a digital humanities project on medieval Rus’. Professor [Last Name] is also a member of several global scientific societies. Her academic background includes a PhD in Philology from Universidad Complutense and the University of Cambridge, along with a Diplôme Post-Doctorat from École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris.