Andreas Ekström

Sydsvenskan, Sweden

Andreas Ekström is a Swedish journalist, author and digital futurist and has been a leading commentator on all things digital worldwide. He is a senior staff writer and columnist at Sydsvenskan, a daily morning paper in Malmö, Sweden. As a reporter with many years of experience covering the field, Ekström holds insights into how the world of media, business and politics is affected by the leading digital power players of the world. He is also an author of several books; "The Google Code", published in 2010, made him a household name in the Nordics. His latest in English is called "On Finding".

Sara López Selga

EAIE President, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Spain

Sara is President of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) and Director of International Relations at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain. She is responsible for influencing and implementing internationalisation strategy, promoting agreements and projects for mobility and academic cooperation worldwide, supervising international student services and programme development. Previously, she gained professional experience at the Teaching and Learning Institute of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – UPC) and in Brussels, Belgium, thereby becoming involved in coordinating an EU capacity-building project with Latin America. In 2014, Sara conducted research in international education as a Schuman-Fulbright Scholar in the USA. She received the EAIE Bo Gregersen Award for Best Practice as part of the Network of Catalan Universities. She holds a dual Bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences and Sociology and a Master’s in Public and Social Policies from UPF. She also received executive training at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.