Mr. Mazzotti is the former high school principal of the Uruguayan Institute of Pre-University Studies (Iudep).
The panel included Dr. Paula Pogré, a research professor at the National University of General Sarmiento in Argentina, and Dr. Beatrice Avalos, who served as a mentor; she is a professor of history and geography at the Catholic University of Chile and a visiting professor at the Institute of Education.
Avalos holds a Ph.D. in Education, Philosophy, and History from Saint Louis University in the United States. She is a research associate at the Center for Advanced Research in Education (CIAE) at the University of Chile. She is the director of the Millennium Nucleus, The Teaching Profession in Chile: Policies, Practices, and Projections, funded by the Millennium Science Initiative. She was the coordinator of Programme Strengthening Initial Teacher Education at the Chilean Ministry of Education.