Gabriela Tejada

Biography

Gabriela studied International Relations and Communication Sciences. She holds a PhD in Political Sciences and Administration from UAB Barcelona, and a CAS International Policy and Advocacy from D-MTEC ETH Zurich. She was visiting scholar at Harvard University and ETH Zurich. At the Cooperation and Development Center (CODEV), holder of UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development, she managed the Swiss EPFL Leading House for scientific cooperation with India, Brazil, Vietnam and Latin America. Her research on scientific diasporas yielded various international collaborations. She was a lecturer at the ITESM in Mexico, researcher at UZH and consultant at UNDP in Moldova and Geneva. She was founding advisor of Spring ACT (former KONA), which connects human rights and technology. Since 2020 she is Vice-President of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO (member since 2016) where she promotes science-society linkages. 
In 2019 Gabriela joined the College of Humanities as Deputy Director. She is member of EPFL’s Human Research Ethics Committee, and advocates for refugee scholars and academic freedom as the Scholars At Risk delegate at EPFL. She manages the EPFL-UNIL CROSS Interdisciplinary Research Program.