Scientific Committee

• Kimete Basha (Albania/Belgium), Director of the Library of the International School of Brussels, IBBY ex-executive director, librarian, expert on the situation of stateless persons and activist against gender discrimination.
• Pedro Cerrillo (Spain), Director of the Centro de Estudios y Promoción de la lectura y literatura infantil (CEPLI), professor of Literature at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.
• Teresa Colomer (Catalonia, Spain), Researcher, critic and professor at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.
• Heidi Cortner-Boiesen (Norway), Director of the IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Disabled Young People.
• Xabier Etxaniz (Basque Country, Spain), Professor of Basque Language and Literature at the Universidad del País Vasco, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea, and expert in children’s and young person’s literature, writer and author of books for children and young persons in Basque language.
• José António Gomes (Portugal), Professor at the Facultade de Educação of the Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Vice-president of the Asociación de Investigadores de Literatura Infantil e X/Juvenil (ELOS-ANILIJ)..
• Mariasun Landa (Basque Country, Spain), Writer, National Award for Children’s Literature 2003 and professor at the Universidad del País Vasco, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea.
• Ana Luna (Galicia, Spain), Professor of translation at the Facultade de Filoloxía e Tradución at the Universidade de Vigo, expert in translation of children’s and young person’s literature.
• Gemma Lluch (València, Spain), Professor of Literature at the Universitat de València.
• Miriam Möllers (Germany), Programme Manager “White Ravens Festival for International Children’s and Youth Literature”.
• María José Olaziregi (Basque Country, Spain), Professor of Literature at the Universidad del País Vasco, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea.
• Anne Pellowski (United States), Member of the IBBY Executive Committee (2002-2006), writer, storyteller, expert in children’s literature and cultures without a written literary tradition.
• Montse Penas (Galicia, Spain), Coordination of the Scientific Committee, researcher, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
• Michèle Petit (France), Anthropologist, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, expert in reading in areas in contexts of crisis.
• Ana Margarida Ramos (Portugal), Professor of Literature at the Departamento de Lingua e Culturas at the Universidade de Aveiro, expert in children’s and young person’s literature.
• Antonio Rodríguez Almodóvar (Andalucía, Spain), Writer, researcher of oral literary traditions, National Award for Children’s Literature 2005.
• Blanca Roig (Galicia, Spain), Professor of Galician Literature at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, coordinator of the network “Las Literaturas Infantiles y Juveniles del Marco Ibérico e Iberoamericano” (LIJMI) and President of the Asociación Galego Portuguesa de Investigadores en Literatura Infantil e X/Juvenil (ELOS-ANILIJ).
• Veljka Ruzicka Kenfel (Galicia, Spain), Professor at the Facultade de Tradución e Interpretación at the Universidade de Vigo and President of the Asociación Nacional de Investigadores de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil (ANILIJ).