Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros (male) is Assistant Professor, co-director of the International UT and Chinese Courses on Research Evaluation of the Science, Technology, and Policy Studies (STePS) group of the Technology, Policy, Society (TPS) Department, and coordinator of the Science, Technology and Innovation Governance at the Global South (STIG@GS) at the School of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences at the University of Twente. He is also Professor of Policy Analysis and Design Methods, and of Knowledge and Innovation Management and Governance at the Faculty of Finance, Government and International Relations of the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogotá, where he is Director of the Research and Special Projects Centre (CIPE) at the same university. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Georgia State University (USA), an Ms in International Economic Law from the Université de Nanterre -Paris X (France), an Ms in International Economics and Economic Development from the Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), and an Bs in Finance and International Relations at the Universidad Externado de Colombia. He was (i.a.) Executive Director of the Colombian Observatory of Science and Technology and consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and the European Commission. He is the President of the Red de Gobernanza y Gestión del Conocimiento, la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación (Red GCTI), and has conducted research, ex-post evaluation and foresight studies of knowledge, science, technology and innovation policies and programmes focusing on emerging economies in the Global South.