Executive Board – Network & Partnerships

The Executive Board – Network & Partnerships is the SPU’s strategic coordination body dedicated to strengthening and expanding the University Network. It supports the identification, engagement, and consolidation of institutional partnerships across regions, ensuring coherence in outreach, continuity in dialogue, and effective coordination among partner universities and stakeholders.

The Board provides a structured interface between regional partnership development and the SPU’s academic and organizational architecture. Working in close coordination with the SPU Secretariat and the Academic Coordinator, it facilitates partnership integration into the SPU framework, promotes joint initiatives, and aligns institutional cooperation with the program’s international mission and annual planning cycle.

The Board’s remit focuses on network development and partnership coordination; financial governance and budgetary decisions are handled through the SPU’s competent administrative and governance structures.

Composition

  • Salvatore La Porta – Chair

  • Dr. Taha Mattar – Regional Lead, North Africa & Middle East

  • Mr. Prakash Sharma – Regional Lead, Asia

  • Ana Claudia Morán – Regional Lead, Latin America

  • Dr. Pavel Malyzhenkov – Academic Coordinator

Dr. Salvatore La Porta

Istituto Calabrese di Politiche Internazionali, Italy

President

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President of the Calabrian International Politics Institute (IsCaPI – istituto Calabrese di Politiche Internazionali)

Mr. Prakash Sharma

Crown Pvt Ltd, Nepal

Coordinator for Asia

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Director of Crown Pvt Ltd. An expert working in development sector dealing with private sector development, SMEs,Entrepreneurship development, gender mainstreaming, informal economy with 18 years of experience at the International Labor Organization

Dr. Taha Mattar

Coordinator for the Africa and middle east region

Coordinator for Africa

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gyptian State Prize in Advanced Technological Sciences, Former Egyptian Cultural and Scientific Attaché in Italy, Former president of CMRDI, Egypt, Ex-President of TIMS, Egypt, Professor @ Galala University, Egypt Member in Scientific Committee, ISCAPI, Calabria, Italy

Dr. Pavel Malyzhenkov

University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

Coordinator

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Research Fellow in the Department of Economics and Business, University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy)