Angélica earned her doctorate in Social Sciences - with honors - at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris-France). She has worked in various institutions of higher education. She is currently a teacher and researcher at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, in the Area of ​​Social and Global Studies. Her topics of interest are: Gender, political ecology, climate change, socio-natural disasters, social vulnerability, water, environment - society relationship, interculturality and disabilities.

Tania has been the Director of the Quito and Galápagos Islands programs since 2018. Tania brings a wide range of international education administration experience.

Robert (Bob) Juppe has been living in Japan for several decades. He teaches at a university there. He also writes texts and magazine articles. He studied abroad with IES Abroad Vienna at the Palais Kinsky during the Academic Year 1980-81 and served as Student Assistant from 1984-85 again in the Vienna Center.