Leonor Lidón Heras

Ph.D. in Human Rights, Democracy and International Justice (2013, Universitat de València), degree in Law and Business consultancy (1995, ICADE, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas), and Research Methodology course in Leeds University.

She has been professionally active in the disability sector and Social Economy for more than 15 years (since 1999), holding different positions mostly related to the improvement of the living conditions of people with disabilities from a human rights perspective and advocacy at national and European level. She has been CERMI Delegate for the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. She teaches Human Rights and disability in Universidad Católica de Valencia (Campus Capacitas), and she has participated in the definition of a competence on disability, which is mainstreamed in all UCV Degrees. She has participated in national and European research.

Her research interests focus on human rights and disability, Disability social image and CSR on disability, and she has published many works and studies in those fields. In 2010 her research "La Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad ¿por qué una toma de conciencia? Una propuesta para los medios de comunicación" was awarded with the first prize of Aequitas Fundation IX awards edition. She deeply believes that a society that does not walk together has lost its way.