Cecilia BALBÍN is international relations coordinator for the School of Social Sciences, where she also teaches courses in Journalism and Corporate Communications at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) in Buenos Aires. Her responsibilities include oversight of exchange programs and activities for students and professors and inviting and hosting foreign professors and speakers to the University. She is an accrediting peer evaluator for the Latin American Journalism Education Accrediting Association sponsored by the International Press Association, which promotes a system of voluntary self-assessment and external review of educational institutions. From 1994 to 1997, she served as a political advisor to the Europeans Union's European Commission Delegation to Argentina. Ms. Balbín received a degree in economics and a technical degree in journalism from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina as well as a number of post-graduate degrees in negotiation, public relations and corporate communication, international affairs, and corporate image and communications.