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Senior researcher Bård Kleppe holds a PhD in cultural studies from the University of South-Eastern Norway. His PhD-project was a comparative study of cultural policy in three European countries. Kleppe has worked as a senior researcher at Telemark Research Institute since 2008 and has conducted a number of larger and smaller research projects on e.g. cultural policy. He has published a number of evaluations, reports and scientific articles on these topics. More information »

Director Cultural Affairs Department Since 2002, Françoise Gamerdinger has been Head of the Division for "International Cultural Politics" within the Directorate for Cultural Affairs of the Principality of Monaco. She has also been in charge of the organisation of the European Days of Heritage in the Principality, coordinator of the inventories of heritage in the Principality, charged with the National Commission Monegasque for UNESCO. She was a professor of literature from 1989 to 2001. Since 2008, Ms. Gamerdinger is the deputy director of Cultural Affairs of the Principality of Monaco and in 2019 she was appointed director. More information »

Research associate Adrian Debattista graduated from the University of Malta with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and later completed a MA in Arts and Cultural Management at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh after being awarded an ESF funded scholarship. His dissertation was a research project focusing on shifting identities and roles of independent live music promoters in Malta as cultural intermediaries and their mobilisation of social, cultural and symbolic capital in stakeholder management. Since 2015, he has been a research associate at the Arts Council Malta where he develops and manages the council's research programme as per its strategy, with the... read more →

Senior curator Zlatko Teodosievski is the senior curator at the National Art Gallery in Skopje. Before, he was the Assistant Minister and Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Culture of Macedonia. He attended postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philosophy (Contemporary Art History) in Belgrade after having studied History and Art History in the University of Skopje. Alongside his career at the National Art Gallery and the Ministry of Culture, Teodosievski has been a member of different national and international organisations (International Council of Museums, Association of International Art Critics, Association of Art Historians of Macedonia, Republic Committee of Culture).... read more →

Associate professor Audronė Rimkutė is associate professor of Cultural Policy and Philosophy at the Institute of Social Sciences and Applied Informatics at Vilnius University (Lithuania). She obtained her PhD in Philosophy at Vilnius University, having defended the dissertation “The Idea of Social Epistemology in Postanalytic Philosophy” in 2005. In 2006, she started working at Kaunas Faculty of Vilnius University as an assistant of the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies and extended her fields of interests to cultural policy. Since 2020, she is the head of the master study programme committee of Arts Management. Audronė Rimkutė has published on topics ranging from cultural and... read more →

Independent researcher and journalist Kornelia Pfeiffer holds a Master's degree in Contemporary History and English Literature from the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen/Germany. She also studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA) and at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Libary Hyde Park, New York. She worked as a freelance journalist for radio stations in Southern Germany, and as an editor for daily newspapers and monthly magazines. In 1996, she took up residence in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Since then she has worked as a correspondent for newspapers and radio stations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and as an editor for... read more →

Baiba Tjarve is a senior researcher at the Research Centre of Latvian Academy of Culture. Since 2021, Deputy Director in strategic planning and development of the Research Centre of Latvian Academy of Culture being responsible for the strategic development of the Research Centre and internationalization of the research activities. She holds a doctoral degree in arts, in 2013 she has defended Thesis on Institutional transformations in Latvian culture in the post-communist transition. Her main research interests relate to intangible cultural heritage, cultural policy and latest developments in culture. She has engaged in both academic and applied research projects in the... read more →

Independent researcher Simona Bodo is an independent researcher and consultant with a particular interest in the social agency of museums. She acts as an advisor to public and private institutions, and has taken part as a team expert in a number of European projects devoted to the issue of immigrants’ cultural participation. She is co-founder of Patrimonio di Storie, as well as co-creator and editor of Patrimonio e Intercultura, a permanent programme and on-line resource promoted by Fondazione ISMU - Initiatives and Studies on Multiethnicity, specifically devoted to the intercultural potential of heritage education projects. For the Italian Compendium profile... read more →

Vice-President Associazione per l`Economia della Cultura Carla Bodo is the founding member and Vice-Chair for International Relations of the AEC and member of the editorial Board of the journal Economia della Cultura. She is the former Director of the Observatory for the Performing Arts of the Italian Ministry of Culture and has been Head of the Unit Cultural Economics and Cultural Policy at ISAE (the Italian Government’s Institute for Economic Analysis) and consultant for the European Commission, the Council of Europe and UNESCO. She wrote and edited several books, reports, articles and publications mainly focusing on the institutional, economic, social and... read more →

Artist and lecturer Paraic Mc Quaid is an artist and lecturer in cultural policy at the Institute of Art Design and Technology (IADT). Paraic holds a MFA in Sculpture and MA in Cultural Policy. His research and lecturing span these two disciplines. He was programme coordinator of BA Arts Management in IADT from 2010-2015. He is currently programme coordinator for the MA Cultural Event Management in IADT. His research interests include Irish and international cultural policy, youth participation in culture, culture and society. He also continues his practice-based research in sculpture and collaborative arts practice. Paraic was an expert assessor... read more →