Dr Soledad Quiroz Valenzuela is Deputy Director of Knowledge Management at Universidad Central de Chile, PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Michigan State University (USA) and Master in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University (USA). In 2021, she was elected Vice President for Policy at INGSA, while becoming a Commissioner of the Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges. She is also a member of the Expert Committee of the Latin America and Caribbean Evidence Hub (LAC Hub) and the Equity in Global Health Partnerships Committee of the Ugandan National Academy of Sciences. She has been a lecturer, researcher and consultant on open science, science policy, science advice and science diplomacy.