Lidia Brito, regional science director for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), talks to Kaz Janowski about the role of higher education systems in producing people who she describes as “agents of transformation of society”.

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Q&A with Lidia Brito

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