Plenary speakers

Professor, Director of the Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society, University of Gothenburg (Sweden).

PhD, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research in Psychology and Human Well-Being (PsiTra) of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of National University of Malaysia

Professor at Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO, University of Havana)

Lecturer at Faculty of Psychology of the University of Tarumanagara (Indonesia)

Doctor of Psychology, Full Professor at Department of Personality, Assessment and Clinical Psychology of Complutense University of Madrid. She has been clinical psychologist at the South Center for Comprehensive Attention to Drug Addicts in the Community of Madrid. Currently her main research line is focused on behavioral addictions with the development of online assessment instruments for gambling and gaming problems detection.

Professor of Education and Director of the Research, Innovation and Development Center at Higher Education Institute of Fafe (Portugal), Founder and Honorary Member of UNESCO Chair of Education, Youth and Society

Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition University of California San Diego. Member of the National Academies of Education of the United States and Russia and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a University Professor Emeritus in the University of California.

Honorary Lecturer at the School of Education of Macquarie University. He has worked in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings for nearly a decade in multiple cities across the world including Osaka (Japan), Ulsan (South Korea), Wakayama (Japan), Concepcion (Chile), Granada (Spain) and Honiara (Solomon Islands).

Expert in learning disabilities and educational psychology, President of the Latin American Society of Neuropsychology (SLAN), Head of Department of Neuroscience and Education at Catholic University of Uruguay, Doctor of Psychology

Clinical child and adolescent psychologist, PhD, vice chair of Turkish Psychological Association. She has worked in the child psychiatry clinics of state & university hospitals for more than 20 years. For the last 10 years, she has been teaching in psychology departments of various state & private universities and conducting part time private practice.

Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at Department of Psychology at the University of Cyprus, PhD

Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Center for Research and Intervention on Families with Infants and Children at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Porto Alegre)

Director of the Environment, Development, Genetics & Epigenetics in Mental Health Lab at School of Psychology of University of Sussex, PhD

Specialist at Animation Studies of Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC)

Specialist in clinical and forensic psychology, mediation, negotiation and arbitration, professor at the Academic Department of Psychology at the Specialized University of the Americas (UDELAS).

Associate Professor at Psychology Department of Federal University of São Carlos (Brasil), PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Nordic Studies, Faculty of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway

Architect, expert in educational environments, consultant at The World Bank and Council of Europe Development Bank, former visiting professor at Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris, PhD.

Head of the Center for Psychological and Pedagogical Assistance in Pediatrics of Russian Ministry of Health, Head of Laboratory for Technologies and Means of Psychological and Pedagogical Habilitation (Institute of Correctional Pedagogy of Russian Academy of Education), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Doctor of Psychology

Associated Professor at Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University

Associate Professor at School of Psychology of Central China Normal University, Deputy Director and Secretary General of Special Committee on Mental Health Education in Primary and Secondary Schools.

Associate Professor at Department of Education and Early Childhood Program at the University of Cyprus, Director of Early Childhood Education Research Lab (ECRL), Ed.D.

Vice-president of Panamanian Psychologists’ Association, Director of Psychology Department of Specialized University of America (UDELAS), clinical psychologist specialized in integrative psychotherapy

Specialist in Social Psychology, Psychometrics and Clinical Psychology, Associate Lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology of Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia

President of the Association for the Study of Play (TASP), Associate Professor at College of Education Department of Early, Elementary, and Reading Education at James Madison University

OMEP World President (Organización Mundial para la Educación Preescolar / World Organization for Early Childhood Education), professor in the Master Early Childhood Education at the University of Buenos Aires and in the Regional Training Program in Educational Policy Planning and Management (IIPE-UNESCO Buenos Aires, Office for Latin America), Elected member of the Coordination Group of the Collective Consultation of NGOs on EDUCATION 2030 - CCNGO/ED 2030.

Expert in early childhood education and social inclusion, PhD, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Education and Research at the University of Northampton, Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Early Years Education (Taylor and Francis group), member of UK Executive Committees of Organisation Mondiale pour l’Éducation Pré-Scolaire (OMEP) and TACTYC (Training, Advancement and Co-operation in Teaching Young Children). She is a member of the European Early Childhood Educational Research Association and she has also served on the National Children’s Bureau’s Policy Advisory Group in the UK.

Co-founder and President of the International Child Development Initiatives, expert in early child development, formal and non-formal education (pre-school and basic education), out-of-family and foster care, capacity building and teacher training, policy development and programme design for children and youth, programme and project research and evaluation, and management of international NGO’s, Universities, UN organisations, and development organizations.

Expert in child and adolescent psychology and family therapy, clinical and forensic psychologist, specialist at Brøset at St. Olaf Hospital, member of the board of Digital Health under the Nor-wegian Psychologists’ Association (Digpsyk), Head of the National Unit of Forensic Expertise

Expert in the assessment and development of emotional competence of normally developing and special children and adolescents from Western and non-Western cultures, Professor, Head of Section of Health, Developmental and Personality Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Education

Professor in Early Childhood Education, holds the UNESCO Chair in Early Childhood Education and Sustainable Development. Her main area of research is early childhood education and early learning environments.

Founder and Director of the Vygotsky Institute, Clinical Psychologist and Neuropsychologist, Professor of the Vygotsky Institute (Portugal).

Professor of the Faculty of Human Development Sciences of Autonomous University of Tlaxcala, member of the National Research System in Mexico, member of the Executive Committee of the Latin American Neuropsychology Society (SLAN), PhD

Vice-president of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists

Doctor in Education, Professor at Autonomous University of Tlaxcala

Coordinator and professor of the Master in Childhood and Culture and of the Specialization in Childhood, Culture and Development at Francisco José de Caldas District University, Director of the UNESCO Chair in Child Development.

Professor of Child Development & Education, Senior Research Fellow in Jesus College at the University of Oxford, Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), PhD. Expert in primary and early childhood education research and the impact of home learning, staff training, pedagogy, curriculum and assessment on young children’s learning and development; particularly those children and families from vulnerable backgrounds.

Professor, Director of the Institute of Neuropsychology and Psychopedagogy of Puebla (INPP) (Mexico). Specialist in developmental psychology, educational psychology and child and adult neuropsychology.

Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts of UCSI (University College Sedaya International) University

Lecturer in Psychology at the School of Health and Society of the University of Salford, PhD.
She researched the role of attention to learning and memory development in infancy at the University of Sheffield and worked at Binghamton University (New York) developing the gaze-continuum paradigm for research on the development of contour detection and the implementation of a video surveillance system to study imitation of children's actions with television. She also worked at the ESRC International Center for Language and Communication Development at Lancaster University studying how children transfer words learned from storybooks, television, and apps into the 3D world.

Doctor, Full professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria (South Africa), Extraordinary professor, Optentia Research Unit, North-West University (South Africa), Associate Editor, Child Abuse and Neglect Journal (Elsevier).

Researcher and therapist at Center for Human Studies and Neuropsychology (C.E.H.N.)

Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Programs in Psychology at Social Sciences Institute, Director of Social Psychology Laboratory at the Department of Psychology at Başkent University