speakers

Monica Urian is the policy officer at the European Commission – Directorate General Education and Culture – responsible for international cultural relations. Monica Urian was previously the programme manager in the same EU institution responsible for the ‘audience development’ priority within the Creative Europe Programme – Culture. Before joining the European Commission, Monica worked in the [...]

Manuéle Debrinay Rizos is President of Roberto Cimetta Fund and an U.E Creative Europe program 2014-2020 expert - Lecturer in Cultural management, policies and diplomacy in France, Romania, Marocco, Tunisia; she is also a member of scientific committee, National Institut of Cultural Management, Romania, and a Board member of Cultural diversity Observatory, France. Previously she has

SUH Jeehye is CEO of Inculture Consulting and an Adjunct Professor at Korea National University of Arts. Her career has been in arts management and creative industries for the last 22 years, and she is leading and participating in researches and consulting services as well as new initiatives in arts management, cultural policies, and arts education

Valentina Riccardi joined ASEF in January 2009 and is currently Senior Project Manager in the Culture Department. She is in charge of ASEF’s arts website, culture360.ASEF.org, which offers up-to-date information on arts, culture and heritage from 51 countries in Asia and Europe & of asemus.culture360.ASEF.org, the website of the Asia-Europe Museum Network (ASEMUS). She also manages

Yvette Hardie is a theatre director, producer, educator and advocate, focusing on theatre for young audiences. She initiated the launch of ASSITEJ SA in 2007, and leads the organisation as Director. She is currently serving her third term (2011 – 2020) as President of the international ASSITEJ, which networks across 100 countries. She was responsible for

Ása Richardsdóttir is the secretary general of IETM – the largest international network in the performing arts. www.ietm.org. Sha’s led a versatile career in the performing arts, culture, academia, banking, politics and media.  She was a television reporter at RÚV Iceland, founder of theatre, Kaffileikhusid, executive director of Iceland Dance Company, president of Performing Arts Iceland project

Philipp Dietachmair (Austria) is Head of Programmes at the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) in Amsterdam. Since joining ECF 15 years ago, he has realized many long-term cooperation programs with new cultural initiatives in South East Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Turkey and the Arab Mediterranean countries. He has created the foundation’s Tandem cross-border collaboration programs. Philipp

Pascal Gielen (1970) is professor of sociology of culture and politics at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (Antwerp University – Belgium) where he leads the Culture Commons Quest Office (CCQO). Gielen is editor of the international book series Antennae – Arts in Society (Valiz). In 2016 he became laureate of the Odysseus grant for