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• Dr. Maribel Aponte-Garcia is a professor and researcher with a joint appointment between the Graduate School of Business Administration (EGAE) of the Faculty of Business Administration, and the Center for Social Research (CIS) of the Faculty of Social Sciences, both at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Río Piedras Campus and members of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). In 2015 she founded and still directs the 'Value and Supply Chains in International Trade Project.' This project has obtained local and international grants and awards and incorporates research by EGAE doctoral students. Dr. Aponte-Garcia holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Puerto Rico and her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is Puerto Rico's representative in the Glocal Food Sustainability Network for Latin America and the Caribbean and has been the Caribbean representative on the Latin American and Caribbean Social Research Council (CLACSO) Steering Committee. She is the author of numerous refereed articles, five books on regionalism and Latin American and Caribbean development, and a collection of videos on Cuba. Since 2021, she has been included among the top 100 most cited women academics in Puerto Rico in the academic/scientific literature. She has won awards and research grants at the local and international levels, the most recent being those from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation in Germany, and the Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) in the U.S. (group proposal). Other important awards and scholarships have been awarded by the UPR, the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust, the Switzerland-Bolivia Food Sustainability Project, CLACSO and the Latin American International Trade Network.