Jurado internacional
El Jurado de los Premios Internacionales de Alfabetización de la UNESCO se reúne una vez al año para evaluar las candidaturas y recomendar a los ganadores de cada edición. El jurado está compuesto por cinco miembros independientes de diferentes nacionalidades y de ambos sexos, designados por el Director General de la UNESCO para un periodo de tres años.
El jurado le remite al Director General una evaluación de las candidaturas con las correspondientes recomendaciones, en los siete días que siguen al final de sus deliberaciones. La lengua de trabajo del jurado es el inglés.
En la actualidad el Jurado está compuesto por:
UN-SHIL CHOI (República de Corea). La Dra. Choi es Decana de la Escuela Superior de Educación de la Universidad de Ajou, en la República de Corea. La Dra. Choi es Presidenta de la Sociedad Coreana de Educación a lo Largo de Toda la Vida y del Comité de Evaluación de Políticas del Ministerio de Educación y Desarrollo de Recursos Humanos. Además, es miembro de la Comisión presidencial para la innovación pedagógica, del Foro público y privado para las negociaciones OMC/DDA/AGCS y del Comité Especial para el sector de la educación. Desde 1995 ha sido coordinadora nacional de la Oficina de Educación de Adultos para Asia y el Pacífico Sur (ASPBAE). La Dra. Choi obtuvo un doctorado de la Universidad de Mujeres de Ewha en 1986.
ZHOU NANZHAO (China). Zhou Nanzhao holds a PhD in éducation from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Currently he is the President of the UNESCO-Asia-Pacific Network for International Education and Value Education (APNIEVE), Beijing and Director of the UNESCO International Rural Education Research & Training Center (INRULED). Dr Nanzhao is also the Director of the International Center of Teacher Education, East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai and Research Professor at the China National Institute of Educational Research (NIER), Ministry of Education, Chin. He holds the UNESCO Chair on University-Industry Partnership for National Development.
In the past he has worked as Senior Programme Specialist in the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Bureau for Education.
NORBERT NIKIEMA (Burkina Faso) is Professor of linguistics at the University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where he got a B.A. in English before getting a M.A. and a Ph. D. in linguistics from Ohio University, Athens, and Indiana University, Bloomington, respectively. Besides descriptive linguistics (focusing on Moore among the Gur languages), he has been actively involved in workshops, seminars, consultancy and publication on language-in-education issues (the use of African languages in non formal and formal education, mother tongue and multilingual education), the empowerment of languages for new functions (writing dictionaries and practical grammars, the development of orthographies, the creation of neologisms) and the creation of synergy between adult literacy, non formal and formal education. The focus of his research and applications has been on Burkina Faso among the so-called francophone countries and includes a long list of academic publications and articles. He is a co-author of the History of Adult Education in Africa, to appear in the African Perspectives on Adult Learning book series of UNESCO and DVV international.
SYLVIA SCHMELKES (Mexico). Sociologist, she is the Director of the Research Institute for the Development of Education (Iberoamerican University of Mexico City), since 2007. Ms Schmelkes has over thirty years experience in educational research, and particularly in quality of basic education, rural education, intercultural education, and adult education. She has worked as the General Coordinator of Intercultural and Bilingual Education, at the Ministry of Education in Mexico, she also chaired the Governing Board of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation of OECD 2002 to 2004 and worked for a number of international agencies. In 2008 her work was rewarded with the Comenius Medal from UNESCO and de Education Ministry of the Czeck Republic.
ABDELWAHID A. YOUSIF