Archivist and historian, with a doctorate in Medieval History (Seville, 2003), Antonio Sánchez de Mora has written on Spanish medieval history, archives and archival history, the dissemination of cultural and documentary heritage, and recently, the history of gastronomy during Early Modern times in the Hispanic world. In the last five years, he has researched Spanish and Philippine cultural and gastronomic heritage during the Hispanic times and Spanish gastronomy in the context of the First Circumnavigation. His latest publication is Las viandas de la mayor aventura: El viaje de Magallanes y Elcano (San Lorenzo del Escorial: Taberna Libraria, 2020), which presents a deep analysis of the food loaded on-board for Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition through different chronicle and primary sources. He curated the exhibitions "Pacifico: Spain and the Adventure of the South Sea," organized by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport and Acción Cultural Española, and "Flavors that Sail Across the Seas," organized by the Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation (AECID) and the Spanish Embassy in the Philippines.

Henrique Santos has over 26 years’ experience in Civil Construction Project Management not only in Portugal but also in other countries such as Brazil, Spain, Taiwan, Qatar, and now in Philippines. He joins the Steconfer in 2015 as Project Manager in several railway

Projects. In 2018 he accepts the challenge to setup Steconfer branch in Philippines to make it one of the major railway players in rail industry of the country. He is now Branch Director and VP of STECONFER Phil Corp. in Philippines.

Lawrence is the CEO & President of NST Apparel. After graduating from the University of Michigan, USA. in 1990, he immediately joined his father in building their apparel business to get to where it is now.

NST in the Philippines was founded as a knitting company in 1968 and evolved into garment manufacturing for the export market later on. It started to export garments to Europe in 1978 and entry to the US market began in 1993.

NST is presently engaged in fabric development, design, and production. It serves as a sourcing partner for different international brands and has production facilities in both Asia and Europe.

Margaret Sarkissian is Professor of Music at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1993) and is author of Kantiga di Padri-să Chang (CD + booklet, 1998), D’Albuquerque’s Children: Performing Tradition in Malaysia’s Portuguese Settlement (2000), and, with Ted Solís, Living Ethnomusicology: Paths and Practices (2019). Her fieldwork and research interests lie in the city of Melaka, Malaysia, where she works primarily with the Portuguese and Straits-Chinese (Baba-Nyonya) communities. When in Melaka, she plays accordion with the 1511 O Maliao Maliao Cultural Troupe.

Born in 1979, in Lisbon, Portugal, Sérgio Pereira da Silva graduated in Architecture from Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa in 2004, obtained the LEED certification in 2013 and is currently a PhD student in the Doctoral Program in Social Sustainability and Development at the Universidade Aberta de Lisboa. He had practiced as an Architect in Portugal until 2011, having started his international career in Vietnam, then in Algeria, Hong Kong and Macau, enrolling directly in projects related to urban planning, hotels and resorts, healthcare, retail, entertainment and science parks. He finally moves back to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and later joins S+A Group as Founding and Managing Partner of S+A Vietnam.

For the activities in CCIPV, with extensive knowledge of the bilateral relations between Portugal and Vietnam he is responsible for coordinating the team, the institutional relations with European partners namely EuroCham, AICEP Portugal Global, CCIP.

Ma. Patricia Brillantes Silvestre is Associate Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Musicology, College of Music, University of the Philippines. With degrees in Musicology (BM cum laude), Spanish (MA) and Diploma Basico de Español Como Lengua Extranjera (Universidad de Salamanca/Centro Cultural), and Philippine Studies (Ph.d, UP Tri-College Program), she merges her interdisciplinary interests in her research which examines music, culture, time and place through the lenses of musicology, social history, language and literature, and cultural studies. She has done research, fieldwork and presentation for the Smithsonian Institution's Pahiyas Folklife Festival (for the 1998 Centennial Celebration of Phil. Independence) and the International Music Council, among others, and has written on diverse aspects of music in colonial and contemporary Manila, the Hispanic imprint on Philippine music, the colonial press and music journalism, identity and nation in music etc., which have been included in Quiapo: Heart of Manila (2006), The Life and Works of Marcelo Adonay (National Book Awardee, 2009), Philippine Modernities: Music, Performing Arts and Language 1880–1941 (2017), Saysay Himig: A Sourcebook on Philippine Music History 1880–1941 (2018); and in the journals Musika Jornal (2009), DIAGONAL (University of California, Riverside 2008), and Perro Berde (2016); and the Cultural Center of the Philippines' Encyclopedia on Philippine Art (1994, 2018).

On the creative and performance side, Pat was formerly with the Philippine Madrigal Singers (with whom she has concertized both here and abroad); was a founding member of AUIT Vocal Chamber Ensemble (specializing in Asian contemporary vocal art music); was keyboardist for musical theater groups; and has curated, annotated, and written for various performances.

Eeva Sippola is Associate Professor of Ibero-American languages and cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Prior to this position, she held posts at the University of Bremen (Germany) and Aarhus University (Denmark). Her research interests have a broad focus on contact linguistics and critical sociolinguistics. She is an expert on Chabacano (Philippine Creole Spanish) and Ibero-Asian creole languages, and her track record includes several publications on descriptive, comparative, historical, and sociolinguistic aspects of these. She is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics. In addition, she has edited volumes for John Benjamins, De Gruyter, Language and Communication, and the Journal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, most recently New Perspectives on Mixed Languages (De Gruyter), together with Maria Mazzoli.

With a degree (2013) in History and a master's (2015) in Early Modern History from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, Kevin Carreira Soares is a student of the Inter-University Doctoral Programme in History: Change and Continuity in a Global World (PIUDHist). He received a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (PD/BD/128124/2016). Currently, he is writing a thesis entitled “Episcopacy and Power: The Construction of the Iberian Empires in Early Modern Asia” under the supervision of Ângela Barreto Xavier (ICS-UL) and José Pedro Paiva (FLUC). His areas of interest and specialization are the history of the Iberian empires, ecclesiastical history, political history, and connected history.

Felice Prudente Sta. Maria is an internationally awarded author of non-fiction and has been a cultural worker for over five decades.  Her casual interest in food fruited into a serious and pioneering effort of tracing the history of Philippine culinary culture during colonial eras using period sources.  She served the Philippines as a commissioner on the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Philippine Centennial Commission, and UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines. In 2001, she received the first NCCA Dangal ng Haraya lifetime achievement award and was added to the prestigious SEA Write Award for ASEAN authors.  She remains a trustee of the Philippine National Museum and a member of the Ayala Museum Board of Advisers.

Joaquin Jose Mari "Jonjee" Sumpaico III is a Jesuit priest from the Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus. He completed his basic and higher education at the Ateneo de Manila University. He has two bachelor's degrees from the Ateneo de Manila University, the first in Development Studies and the second in Sacred Theology. His two master's degrees are also from the Ateneo de Manila University, one in Philosophy and another in Theology. He is a licensed professional educator in the Philippines. He also has a Doctor of Education in Catholic Educational Leadership from the University of San Francisco in California, United States of America.

His interest as a Jesuit educator stems from being a fourth-generation educator and a third-generation Jesuit. This interest became more evident when he read the memoirs of his great grandfather who graduated from the Jesuit-run Escuela Normal de Maestros during the time of the Spanish colonization. His entry to the Jesuit order and eventual assignment as school principal at Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan brought about a deep desire to tell the stories of the Philippine Jesuit Schools of Education and see how they have been and continue to be heroic institutions of learning, leadership, transformation, and liberation in mission.

He currently serves as Vice President for Basic Education at the Ateneo de Manila University. 

Kidlat Tahimik (Eric de Guia) is a film director, writer, and actor currently based in Baguio City. He is dubbed by fellow filmmakers and critics as the "Father of Philippine Independent Cinema." In 2018, he was conferred the Order of National Artists for his significant contributions to Philippine film and visual arts. In recent years, Tahimik has become a noted installation artist with his works exhibited in various public spaces in the Philippines. 

Sir Anril P. Tiatco is professor of theatre and performance at the University of the Philippines Diliman Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts. He is the author of "Buhol-Buhol/Entanglement: Contemporary Theatre in Metropolitan Manila" (Peter Lang, 2017), the 2017 National Book Award Finalist for Best Book on Art "Performing Catholicism: Faith and Theatre in a Philippine Province" (UP Press, 2016), and the 2019 National Book Award Winner (Best Book on Art) "Cosmopolitanism, Theatre, and the Philippines: Performing Community in a World of Strangers" (UP Press, 2018). Tiatco is also currently editorial associate of Contemporary Theatre Review and Humanities Diliman.

Ivan Valdez-Bubnov (PhD Cantab) is a full-time research fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His field of specialization is the history of Spanish naval shipbuilding in the Age of Sail, and teaches military and naval history and historiography at both graduate and undergraduate levels. 

Irene Villaescusa Illán teaches Spanish and Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She is also a guest researcher at ASCA, the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. She has just published her first monograph entitled Transcultural Nationalism in Hispano-Filipino Literature (Palgrave, 2020). She has published journal articles on Philippine literature in the Revista de Crítica Literaria Lationamericana (2018) and UNITAS, the bi-annual journal of the University of Santo Tomás in the Philippines (2019). She is co-editor and contributor with a chapter in a volume entitled Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalisation (Palgrave, 2019). She has an interest in studies of the Global Hispanophone world and comparative literatures, globalization studies, and travel writing.