Susana Graciela Pérez Barrera (PhD)

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA EMPRESA

URUGUAY

Andrée Therrien (Psychologist)

ASIA-PACIFIC GIFTED FEDERATION

EUROPEAN COUNCIL FOR HIGH ABILITY CANADA

Psychologist currently in private practice and specializes in giftedness and ADHD. She was a school psychologist for many years. She is Canada's delegate for the Asia-Pacific Gifted Federation (APFG) as well as to the European Council for High Ability (ECHA) where she holds the position of National Correspondents Coordinator. She is a speaker in gifted training all over the world and is involved in some international committees. She participates in gifted research in collaboration with other countries.  She created the T2i: identification protocol for gifted and talented students in public schools: STEM profile. 

ataclinique@hotmail.com 

Professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has been appointed Director of the “Center of Cross-Cultural Psychology” (2003-2013) of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology and Director of the “Laboratory for Creativity Development” (2017-) of the Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has also been appointed Correspondence Member for Greece (2002-) of the “European Council for High Ability” (ECHA) and Program Director for Greece (2007-) of the “European Value Study” (EVS). She has been elected member of the Executive Council (2014-2018) of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) and co-cordinator of the “Cross-Cultural Psychology Branch” of the “Hellenic Psychological Society” (2011-2013,    2013-2015 and 2015-2017). She has also elected chair of the executive committee board of the “Hellenic Association for the Promotion of Education for the Creative, Gifted, Talented Children and Adolescents” (2003-2012, 2014-). Her main research interests include attitudes, values and social axioms, community well-being, socio - psychological dimensions of contemporary families, social psychology of educational system, socio-psychological characteristics of children and adolescents with high abilities, gifted  identification, school community members attitudes towards the gifted, teachers’ attitudes towards the gifted with learning difficulties. She has been member of the International Organizing Committee of the 8th Conference of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA), Rhodes, Greece, 9-13 October, 2002 and she co-chaired the 18th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, at the isle of Spetses, 11-15 July 2006.  She has published more than 60 papers in peer reviewed international and Greek journals, books, and  congress proceedings.

agari@psych.uoa.gr   

With over 30 years of pioneering work in emotional intelligence education, Dr. Anabel Jensen has founded three schools for gifted children and is the President of Six Seconds, a network devoted to helping communities develop positive change. In addition to her leadership at Six Seconds, she is Chair and Professor in Education at Notre Dame de Namur University. Her background includes the teaching and supervising of instruction from preschool to the university level. Anabel received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Email: anabel@6seconds.org 

Tenured Associate Professor of Psychology and Special Education, and former Chairperson of the Department of Education at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Convener of the Graduate Program of School Guidance and Counseling since 2012. Ph.D. and MPhil in Psychology of Education (both focused on researching the clinical diagnosis and intervention for vulnerable twice-exceptional individuals) from the University of Cambridge, M.A (special education and school guidance and counseling), and B.A. (Psychology) from the University of Jordan. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Connecticut, the British Academ,y, to the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, and to the School of Advanced Social Studies (SASS) in Slovenia. Le led several projects sponsored by UNICEF, UNRWA, UNESCO, the British Academy, USAID, World Bank, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI), Welfare Association, and European Union. He is the abroad editor member for several scholarly journals, associate editor of Frontiers in Psychology, and a topic editor on the same journal on “Serving Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations in Social and Educational Contexts):. He is the co-founder and advisor of the Middle East Professional Learning Initiative (MEPLI) at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, and member of the expert team responsible for drafting the Lebanese national policy on inclusive education for children with special needs. Additionally, he assumed a leading position in formulating a policy specifically addressing inclusive education for gifted and talented learners in Lebanon.

Email: aa111@aub.edu.lb 

Dr. Jiyoung Ryu is currently the Director of the Gifted Education Policy Center at GIFTED(Global Institute For Talented Education), KAIST(KOREA Advanced Institute of Science and Technology). Dr. Ryu earned a doctoral degree in Gifted Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has developed and operated educational programs for underprivileged gifted students, as well as has been carried out various policy reports and research for science gifted students. She has presented numerous papers at both domestic and international conferences on gifted education and has authored several publications. Her research interests primarily concern the psychological and emotional adaptation of gifted individuals, as well as education for gifted children from underprivileged backgrounds. . Currently, Dr. Ryu serves as the chair of scientific committee of the KOREA Society of Gifted, and the Korean representative at the Asia-Pacific Federation on Giftedness.

Email: jryu01@kaist.ac.kr 

Laura Ceretta Moreira (PhD)

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ

BRAZIL

Degree in Special Education and Pedagogy. Specialist in Neuroscience, Master, Doctor and Post-Doctor in Education. Full Professor at the Federal University of Paraná, she works in the Graduate Program in Education. Member of the Brazilian Council for Giftedness (ConBraSD).Chaired the ConBraSD Scientific Committee (20182022). She coordinates LAPEAHS (Laboratory of Policies, Research and Educational Practices in High Abilities/Giftedness). Leader of the Research Group: Inclusive Education/Special Education: Policies, Practices and Processes of Human Development. Main research themes: Giftedness, inclusive policies and practices, autism and accessibility.

Leticia Arbelo Marrero (MsC)

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA EMPRESA

URUGUAY

Lianne Hoogeveen (PhD)

RADBOUD UNIVERSITY

NEDERLANDS

Professor by special appointment on the topic ‘Identification, Support and Counseling of Talent’. She is Program Director of the Radboud International Training of High Ability (RITHA), a post-academic training at the Radboud Center of Social Sciences, qualified by the European Council for High Ability (ECHA). She coordinates the master specialization ‘Gifted Education’ at Radboud University. As a mental health psychologist, she examines and counsels adolescents and adults with high abilities at CBO Talent Development in Nijmegen. As part of the research group RATiO of the Radboud University, Lianne Hoogeveen is involved in research on giftedness and education (Specialty: ‘Identification, Support and Counseling of Talent’), cooperating with colleagues of Dutch and international universities. She is a guest lecturer in several European and non-European universities. Since September 2020, she is the President of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA).

Email: lianne.hoogeveen@ru.nl 

Psychologist, Doctor in Education from the University of Concepción, Chile, and Postdoctorate at Gifted Education, University of New South Wales, through the award of an Endeavour Research Fellowship from the Australian Government, Department of Education and Training. She currently works as a Professor at the School of Pedagogy, Special Education Undergraduate Program, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV). For six years she served as Director of the Educational Program BETA for Academic Talents at the same University, an area in which she has developed teaching and research for the last 16 years. She was Head of the Program in Special Education and Director of the Master's program in Education, Mention Educational Assessment. She is a national and international reference on High Ability and Twice Exceptionality, with the permanent publication of articles and book chapters, research, dissemination, and development of the subject.

Email: leonor.conejeros@pucv.cl 

Email: Maria.gomez.ar@usach.cl

Maria Pereira Da Costa is Professor of Differential Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, University Paris Cité. Her teaching and research concerns giftedness, intelligence theories, cognitive psychology, psychometric questionnaires, and cognitive styles. She has been member of the International Organizing Committee of the 12th Conference of the European Council for High Ability (ECHA), Paris, 2010. She has been appointed Director of a large Bachelor in psychology program and vice-dean of the Institute of Psychology (2009-2012). She has been elected as vice-president of University Paris Descartes (2013-2019), and appointed as vice-president of University Paris Cité (2019-2022). She is member of the Laboratoire de Psychologie et Ergonomie Appliquée (LaPEA).

Email: maria.pereira@u-paris.fr   

Mariana Carignani Casanova (Ms.)

Master in Education with emphasis on Learning Disabilities and High Abilities/Giftedness and specialist in Learning Disabilities. She is Secondary Education teacher specializing in Chemistry. She is currently a professor of Educational Psychology at the Psychology Department of the Consejo de Formación en Educación de Uruguay and professor of the Mastership in Education and a member of the Research Group in High Abilities/Giftedness at the Education Sciences school of Universidad de la Empresa. She is also an Educational Psychologyst in private practice and  member of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6595-8557

 E-mail: marianacarignani@gmail.com

M.Sc. Maruška Željeznov Seničar is a teacher of preschool children, a graduate teacher, a professor of geography and has a master's degree in pedagogical sciences. He is currently completing her doctoral studies in the field of talent development at the Faculty of Education of the University of Primorska, Slovenia and is in the process of habilitation as an assistant for social and educational sciences at the same faculty. She is the author and implementer of the educational program for kindergarten teachers entitled Development of Children's Potentials in and a consultant to the Institute of Education of the Republic of Slovenia in the preparation of the Concept of Discovering and Working with Potentially Talented Children in Kindergarten. Since 2008, she has been the program and organizational manager of the international conference in the field of talent development (www.talenteducation.si), and from 2014 to 2022 she was the national coordinator for ECHA (European Council for High ability) and program manager of TalentTalk. She is also the president of the Association of School Counselors of Slovenia, which connects more than 400 counselors from kindergartens and schools, who act as coordinators of work with the gifted and talented in kindergartens and schools. 

Email: maruska.zeljeznov@mib.si 

Associate professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of Primorska, Slovenia. She is also the holder of the subject Development of talents and giftedness and she is head of CUN, the Center for Creativity and Talents, UP PEF and country Director, country representative in the World Organization of Higher Education Teaching and Learning.

Email: mojcakgabrijelcic@gmail.com

Mojmir Mykiska (Student)

CHARLES UNIVERSITY

CZECH REPUBLIC

Psychology student at Charles University in Prague, where he was also born. He is an ex-member of non-profit organisation Lata and co-founder of a student society called Psyna. Gifted problematic is his main interest for the last 5 years, as he wrote his high-school graduation thesis on gifted development and now is writing theses and conducting research on gifted adults and their perception of stress. 

Email: mykiskam@gmail.com

Nikolopoulou Vasiliki (PhD)

NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS 

ATHENS, GREECE

 School Psychologist (MSc, PhD) and a member of Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Psychology Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) coordinating the internship of MSc students in School Psychology Program. She has great experience working for many years in state schools of Secondary education and she has been specialized in Systemic interventions at school systems. Her main interests include systemic psychosocial interventions at school, educational leadership, well-being and socio-psychological characteristics of children/ adolescents with high abilities. She has published several psychology papers and participated in several Greek and international congresses.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7714-4756 

E-mail: viknikolop@psych.uoa.gr 

Former Fulbright scholar. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Yucatan, in the College of Education, where he is a full professor and researcher.  Dr. Sánchez belongs to the prestigious Mexican National Research System (SNI-II) since 1996 and he has contributed significantly to both educational and psychological fields in Mexico. He oversaw the Standardization processes and norm development of the three major intelligence scales widely used in Mexico in clinical and educational settings.  The Mexican Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, Third Edition (M-WPPSI-III) in 2011. The Mexican Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Fourth Edition (M-WISC-IV) in 2007 The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Third Edition (M-WAIS-III) was adapted for use in Mexico. In 2003. Hitherto he has published 18 books, more than 120 original research manuscripts and he has been a visiting lecturer in many universities around the world. His current research interest is in assessment and evaluation, gifted education and curriculum development. 

Email: psanchez@correo.uady.mx 

Petra Leinigen
COUNSELLOR FOR PARENTS WITH GIFTED CHILDREN
GERMANY

Petra Leinigen is a counsellor for parents of gifted children in Germany for more than 20 years. Her focus is on the family’s wellbeing with gifted children. Petra gained her ECHA-Coach Diploma at ICBF of Muenster University and did the nationwide telephone counselling for Germany for several years. Petra holds speeches and does workshops to train the trainers. She also is a founder and for several years was on the board of an association for parents with gifted children in Lower Saxony, Germany. She still is a presenter at ECHA and WCGTC conferences.

https://www.herausforderung-begabung.de                   

Email: info@herausforderung-begabung.de 

Serene Chan (EdD)

UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

HONG KONG CHINA

 Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She is one of the coordinators of the Master of Education Specialism in Gifted Education and Talent Development. She teaches courses in creativity, gifted education, and talent development. She also has extensive experience in the local school context, providing consultancy and school-based curriculum support to teachers in primary schools and kindergartens with a focus on helping multicultural students in language learning. Dr. Chan is the Programme Director (Research Development) of the Laboratory and Programme for Creativity and Talent Development, Centre for Advancement in Inclusive and Special Education (CAISE) at HKU. Through the Programme for Creativity and Talent Development, Dr. Chan has taught creative language arts courses to talented primary school students. Dr. Chan is currently serving as a Hong Kong Delegate of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children (WCGTC) and also the Asia-Pacific Federation on Giftedness (APFG). She has been on the editorial board of the APFG newsletter. Recently, she participated in the Chinese translation of the Global Principles for Professional Learning in Gifted Education. Dr. Chan’s research interests are in creativity enhancement, talent development, early career awareness, and teacher training.

Email: schan15@hku.hk 

Master in Education from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM); Specialist in Specialized Educational Service from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC); Specialist in gifted and talented education by the Federal University of Lavras, Minas Gerais (UFLA); Specialist in Special Education - area of High Ability/Giftedness by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Portuguese Language degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. Retired gifted educator of the Municipal Education System of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; gifted educator of the municipal education system of Florianópolis, working in the identification and enrichment  of highly able/gifted students of an elementary school; former president of the Associação Gaúcha de Apoio às Altas Habilidades/Superdotação (AGAAHSD); founder and member of the Brazilian Council for Giftedness – CONBRASD. Professor at the School of Educational Sciences of the Universidad de la Empresa. Researcher at the Educação Inclusiva/Educação Especial: Políticas, Práticas e Processos de Desenvolvimento Humano (UFPR) - Gifted research line (Brazil) and the Grupo de Investigación en Altas Habilidades/Superdotación (GIAHSD), Uruguay.

Sheyla Blumen, Ph.D. is the Chair of the Academic Department of Psychology, and former Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP). She holds an M.A. on Psychological Assessment, the ECHA Diploma as Specialist in Gifted Education, and a Ph.D. from Radboud University, on the Identification and Attention of the highly able in Peru. She also holds a degree on the Education for sustainable development, and has been instrumental to include gifted education needs on the Peruvian Norms of Education. She currently coordinates the Creativity, Technology, and Talent Development Research Group, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, as well as Future Minds Gifted Center, an Associated European Gifted Center. She is invited keynote at international conferences, and has been invited professor at universities in the Americas (Harvard U/School of Education, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Campinas-Brasil, Universidade de Brasilia), Europe (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Murcia, Radboud University, Eotvos Lorand University),  and Asian countries (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Her current research and development interests are related to assessment and enhancement of multiple forms of giftedness of students from underserved groups living in poverty or belonging to ethnic-linguistic diverse groups, or original towns.

Email: sblumen@pucp.edu.pe  

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Doctor in History, master in Sociology, graduate in Social Sciences. Professor at the Catholic University of Pernambuco/Brazil (UNICAP) and coordinator of the Reserch Group High Abilities/Giftedness, Humanism and Citizenship (UNICAP). Cofounder of Institute Scientia of Pernambuco/Brazil, Member associate of the Brazilian Council for Giftedness (CONBRASD), and Brazilian Society of Science History (SBHC).  Research Development in Social History, History of Science, Sociology of Education and Giftedness.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5242-3492