Milena Dragićević Šešić, prof. emerita is the Head of UNESCO’s chair in Interculturalism, Art Management and Mediation, at the University of Arts in Belgrade. She is a professor of Cultural Policy & Cultural Management; Cultural Studies and Media Studies. She was the former President of the University of Arts in Belgrade and member of the National Council for Science. In 1990, she received a PhD degree in Literature and Communication. She was a Board member of the European Diploma in Cultural Project Management; Board member of ENCATC and ELIA; adviser to the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, and Board Member of Trencin ECoC 2026.
She provides guest lectures at world universities and published 20 books and more than 250 essays. Additionally, she is expert in cultural policy and management for, among others, UNESCO and the Council of Europe with whom she realised and developed more than 50 projects in cultural policy and management (in Egypt, India, Cambodia, Mali…). She got numerous awards: Commandeure du Palme Academique of French Ministry of Education (2002); University of Arts Awards 2004 and 2019; ENCATC award for life achievement (2019), Doctorat Honoris Causa of the University of Montpellier (2023) and UCLG- Agenda 21 individual award, Mexico 2024.
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