Management Structure
The governance of the Chair takes place through a light and flexible structure of decision-making and consensus-building, being constituted by three instances:
1. General Coordination (GC), by Prof. Dr. Gilvan Müller de Oliveira, of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, institution that has the central agreement with UNESCO,
2. Executive Committee (ExCom), consisting of 8 Coordinators plus the General Coordinator. The first management team (January 2018 – May 2020) consists of the following members:
CLÁUDIO SAMPAIO DE MENEZES: UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA, BRAZIL
EDLEISE MENDES: FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA, BRAZIL
ELIN EMILSSON: NATIONAL PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY, MEXICO
EVGENY KUZMIN: INTERREGIONAL LYBRARY COOPERATION CENTER, RUSSIA
GATUT SUSANTO: STATE UNIVERSITY OF MALANG, INDONESIA
GILVAN MÜLLER DE OLIVEIRA: FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL
ILSE FEINAUER: UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA
PRABHAKARA JANDHYALA RAO: UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD, INDIA
THOMAS SZENDE: INALCO, FRANCE
3. Extended Board (EB), composed of all institutional coordinators of the Chair or representatives appointed by them, on the basis of one per institution. The entry of more institutions into the Chair will automatically expand the membership of the Extended Board. EB is currently constituted by the following members:
Ananda Machado: (UFRR, Boa Vista, Brazil)
Benedito Antero: (UNTL, Díli, East Timor)
Christopher Stroud: WCU, Capetown, South Africa)
Cláudio Sampaio de Menezes: (UnB, Brasília, Brazil)
Edleise Mendes: (UFBA, Salvador, Brazil)
Mona Mpanzu: (ISED, Uíge, Angola)
Elin Emillsson: (UPN, Mexico City, Mexico)
Gatut Susanto: (State University of Malang, Indonesia)
Gilvan Müller de Oliveira: (UFSC, Florianópolis, Brazil)
Ilse Feinauer: (UStellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Isis Ribeiro Berger: (UNOESTE, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil)
Jandhyala Prabhakara Rao: (UoH, Hyderabad, India)
Maria Teresa Moure: (AGLP, Santiago, Galiza, Spain)
Maxime Somé: (University Norbert-Zongo, Burkina Faso)
Mogomed Omarov: (RGGU, Moscow, Russian Federation)
Monica Savedra: (UFF, Niterói, Brazil)
Rainer Enrique Hamel: (UAM Iztapalapa, Mexico)
Ricardo Cid: (UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil)
Roberval Silva: (UMAC, Macao, China)
Rosângela Morello: (IPOL, Florianópolis, Brazil)
Terje Loogus: (University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia)
Thomas Szende: (INALCO, Paris, France)
Vicent Climent-Ferrando: (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)