Our team

 Irene Perurena, has been the Director of International Cooperation of the City of Knowledge Foundation, Panama, since the year 2000. She has succeeded in negotiating the establishment of the regional offices for Latin America and the Caribbean of numerous intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as in the negotiation and implementation of technical and financial assistance agreements. She holds a graduate degree in psychology from Santa Maria la Antigua University and postgraduate from the University of Notre Dame du Lac, she has vast experience in public management, human right defense and promotion, and citizen participation and public business transparency.

From 1994 to 1999 she was an advisor for the President of Panama on human rights issues, governance and national dialogues, as well as director of the presidential commissions for the creation of the Ombudsman office, the Interoceanic Canal Museum, the National Library and Cultural Heritage Preservation. Previously she acted as executive director of the Justice and Peace Commission of the Panamanian Episcopal Conference, and a member of the Central American Expert Committee of the European Commission’s Pluriannual Human Rights program and of the Panamanian chapter of the Transparency International Advisory Committee.
She has formerly been a consultant for the Panamanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the relationships with the EU, the OAS, the IDB and other organizations.

Ferrán Galindo, a professional musician, actor, and current International Organizations Manager of FCDS, studied Musical Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music de Boston, USA. He also has a master’s degree in Marketing and Advertising from Universidad Latina de Panamá.

His eight year professional career in the USA, Spain,Puerto Rico and Panama are the reflection of a multifaceted, creative life: he has been a sound technician, a music teacher, musical supervisor,an actor and professional musician. In Puerto Rico he created and headed a multimedia agency, working on web and graphic design, audiovisual recording of live music and digital audio production. In Panamá he is currently a co­founder of an animation studio.