1 - 3 November 2017 Beyond the Creative City: New Civic Agendas for Citizens and by Citizens Policy Brieﬁng 6: Seoul Summit 2017 Contents

WORLD CITIES CULTURE SUMMIT SEOUL 1 - 3 November 2017 Beyond the Creative City: new civic agendas for citizens and by citizens Policy Brieﬁng 6: Seoul Summit 2017 Contents

Foreword 3

Chair’s Welcome 4

World Cities Culture Forum Vision and Values 7

World Cities Culture Summit Ethos 9

Programme 11

Participants 17

Guest Speakers 55

Seoul Summit Supporters & Organisers 61

Governance and Operation 65

2 Welcome from the Mayor of Seoul

Welcome to Seoul! It is a great pleasure to accompanied by the creative interventions of host the 6th World Cities Culture Summit artists for the promotion of democracy. This in Seoul. We are honoured and delighted to led us to reflect on the central importance of welcome the delegates from twenty-seven public engagement in the development and cities. delivery of cultural policy as we shift from a ‘Culture City’ to a ‘Creative-Civic City’. This As a metropolitan city, Seoul’s appeal includes year’s Summit provides the opportunity to its unique harmony between tradition and the explore answers to this issue. cutting edge, from its history of more than 2,000 years, to its state-of-the-art facilities The “World Cities Culture Forum: Seoul and infrastructure. It also boasts a remarkable Declaration 2017”, which will be jointly and beautiful cityscape. The creativity of declared at the closing ceremony, will affirm Seoul and Korea has been noticed by many the role of World Cities in championing culture global citizens. The ‘Korean Wave (Hallyu)’, has as a critical part of the future of our cities, and gained enormous popularity around the world, will strengthen our connections to bring more recognising the works of young Korean artists in-depth cooperation between world cities. in the prestigious fields of arts and creative industries. The Seoul Metropolitan Government has received inspiration and practical assistance Seoul is shifting towards inclusive and from the WCCF through its research on sustainable growth, as well as focusing on cultural policies and information sharing. its citizens and grassroots democracy. This Seoul looks forward to even closer year’s summit in Seoul takes place just after relationships with world cities through the the anniversary of the ‘Seoul Culture Vision network of the WCCF. 2030, Creative Civic City’ plan, which is the city’s mid/long-term cultural plan. This plan I would like to thank the Mayor of London’s was developed over nearly 3 years, through Office and the WCCF team for their a process that encouraged the widest citizen cooperation in preparing this year’s summit. participation. We look forward to sharing our I would also like to thank all the partner plans with other world cities, as we shift our organizations and cultural venues in Seoul for focus to the happiness of our citizens through their cooperation to host this special event. our cultural policy. I truly hope that you have a unique experience The theme of WCCS Seoul 2017 is “Beyond in Seoul. May the World Cities Culture Summit the Creative City: new civic agendas for Seoul 2017 be a meaningful occasion for citizens and by citizens”. further cooperation between world cities.

From the fall of 2016 to the spring of 2017, Yours sincerely, the peaceful and festive candlelight vigils in Seoul and Korea brought the world’s Park, Won-soon attention to Korea and its citizens. The plazas Mayor of Seoul of Seoul have become a starting point in which Seoul experienced urban and societal change through citizens’ cultural movements,

3 Chair’s Welcome

Welcome to the 6th World Cities Culture The Leadership Exchange Programme is a Summit, in the wonderful city of Seoul. chance to understand in depth how cities are developing a new policy or a ground- It is great to see old friends and welcome new breaking programme. It is also an opportunity members from Lisbon, Chengdu and Zurich, to showcase a great success story from your to our growing network. city. Whether you are interested in creative workspace, the night time economy, planning Seoul is a remarkable world city. A leader innovation, cultural regeneration, cultural in technological innovation with a deep tourism, real estate models, cultural policy, commitment to citizen engagement. It is a city major events or civic engagement. I would that has preserved its historical legacy, with like to extend my great thanks to Bloomberg three designated UNESCO World Heritage Philanthropies and Google Arts & Culture for sites. It has invested in contemporary cultural supporting this new initiative and to the City infrastructure and you will experience a great of Amsterdam for leading this project with example of this on our first day together at such energy. the Dongdaemun Design Plaza. The ‘Korean Wave’ shows the global reach of Korean This year we also have two important pieces contemporary culture, with the phenomena of research which will underpin our workshop of K-Pop and K-dramas capturing the sessions. ‘Making Space for Culture’ imagination and loyalty of fans internationally. highlights the need for city leadership in securing creative spaces. ‘Culture and Climate The summit is a chance to hear about the Change’ shows how artists can support our new, ‘Seoul Culture Vision 2030’. It is a bold cities’ responses to climate change. plan with citizen participation at its heart. We will develop this idea throughout the summit I want to extend our warmest thanks to the and will explore how culture can play a role in Mayor of Seoul, Park Won-soon, and to Deputy the lives of citizens in all world cities. Mayor of Cultural Affairs, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Mr Jeong Hyup (Thomas) Seo, This year I am also delighted that we are for their generosity as hosts. Special thanks launching the first ever World Cities Culture go Mr Chulhwan Joo, CEO of the Seoul Forum Leadership Exchange Programme. Foundation for Arts and Culture - and his As world cities we have many common team who have worked tirelessly with the challenges and every summit we have World Cities Culture Forum team to organise inspiring conversations about the innovative the Summit, including Hae-Bo Kim, Director, ways we are developing culture in our cities. Management and Planning Division, Mijin The Leadership Exchange Programme will Nam, Manager, Research & Development, enable us to take these conversations to the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture and next level. It will support exchanges between their colleagues. cities. It will fund travel and accommodation for city delegations, as well as hosting costs.

4 And finally, I wanted to thank you - our members. Together we’re making the World Cities Culture Forum a genuine force for positive change in the world, combining innovation, global collaboration and leadership. Thank you as ever for your engagement, your ideas and your friendship.

Enjoy your time in Seoul and have a wonderful Summit!

Justine Simons OBE Chair, World Cities Culture Forum Deputy Mayor for Culture and Creative Industries, Mayor of London’s Office

5 6 World Cities Culture Forum Vision and Values

Leadership Evidence

The Forum stands for global leadership on Evidence is essential if we are to make the culture. Our members are some of the most case for culture. But culture is difficult to informed and influential cultural officials measure in a way that does justice to the in the world. They know that leadership breadth and sophistication of cultural life, and is necessary in order to make cities more the complexity of its impact. vibrant, inclusive and liveable. The Forum allows members to share their experiences So we are building an evidence base and develop the knowledge they need in about the many and wide-ranging ways in order to exercise that leadership. which culture enriches a world city and its inhabitants. This hard evidence enables us to Since the nine founder cities met in London understand what works and what doesn’t, and in 2012, the Forum has grown rapidly. It now to make hard arguments if necessary. includes 35 members from leading cities around the world: The landmark World Cities Culture Report is at the heart of our research programme. It is Amsterdam, Austin, Brussels, Buenos Aires, the most comprehensive report of its kind, Cape Town, Chengdu, Dakar, Edinburgh, showing that, across the globe, culture is as Hong Kong, Istanbul, Lagos, Lisbon, London, important to the world city as finance and Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Montreal, trade. It shows that culture plays an integral Moscow, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, role in shaping world cities’ identity, economy Rome, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and quality of life. Shenzhen, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich. This year, based on feedback from our members on urgent issues we have published Global collaboration our first policy handbook, Making Space for Culture. It includes a series of case studies The Forum is a collaborative network of world that identify the ingredients that make policies cities seeking to promote culture as a vital or programmes work, helping policymakers part of urban policy. to better understand the options available to address these issues. After the Summit we Whether at the World Cities Culture Summit, will be releasing the second policy handbook, one of our themed symposia, or through the Culture and Climate Change. introductions we facilitate, our members have the opportunity to make contact with Inspiration other leading policymakers who understand the issues they face. They learn from each All around the world, culture has an other by examining common challenges and extraordinary and far reaching impact on dilemmas and comparing approaches to cities and their people. The results are cultural investment and development. extensive and profound, from cinemas in the Rio Favelas, workspaces for artists in Toronto, We share our successes, learn from our cultural quarters in Moscow, art spaces in mistakes and together build the arguments Seoul, the Olympic legacy in London and and knowledge we need to make culture a social circus in Buenos Aires. leading force in world cities.

7 We want everyone involved in city leadership – government, business, education, health – to understand the essential contribution culture makes to economic prosperity, quality of life, and happiness. We want the widest acknowledgement that, in a globalised world, no city can afford to neglect it.

8 World Cities Culture Summit Ethos

At the World Cities Culture Summit we Finally, we encourage everyone to listen encourage a spirit of openness and honesty. carefully. We come from all the corners of the We learn from both our mistakes and our globe. Our passion for culture in our cities successes. And one of the main benefits of binds us together. But there are also many the Summit is the opportunity to hear about differences in our professional backgrounds, others members’ experiences in a truthful national cultures and political operating way, away from the pressure of media or contexts – all of which influence the way political scrutiny. we interpret the world and act within it. We encourage you to be mindful of these We want you to share the mistakes you have differences and learn from them. Have a made, the challenges you have faced and the wonderful Summit! tactics you have used to overcome obstacles. In order to achieve an environment where members feel safe enough to talk about their experiences we need everyone to respect confidentiality.

We would like to remind all attendees that we work under Chatham House Rules. This means that all participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of speakers or participants may be revealed. This also extends to how we communicate about the Summit via Twitter, Facebook and other social media. Please ensure that you respect the confidentiality of all participants in all communications.

9 Programme

10 WEDNESDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2017 Location: Round Hall (2F), Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) 10:00 – 11:00 Opening Ceremony Key questions: • Do cultural leaders have a genuine role to Location: Academy Hall (3F), Dongdaemun play in tackling climate change? What is Design Plaza (DDP) it? • How successful has your city Welcome administration been in tackling climate Justine Simons, Deputy Mayor for Culture and change? What evidence do you have? Creative Industries, Mayor of London's Office • Where do you see opportunity for action and Chair, World Cities Culture Forum on climate change in your cultural policies, funding, programmes and advocacy? Paul Owens, Co-founder and Director, BOP • As a cultural leader, what support do Consulting and Director, World Cities Culture you need to engage and act on climate Forum change? Where does it sit in your priorities? Why? Park, Won-soon, Mayor of Seoul Moderator: Lucy Latham, Programme Lead, Keynote Speech Julie’s Bicycle (London) Sok-Yong Hwang Speakers: Presentation of Seoul’s Cultural policy and the Summit’s theme Amsterdam Jeong Hyup (Thomas) Seo, Deputy Mayor for Araf Ahmadali, Policy Advisor for Arts Cultural Affairs and Culture / World Cities Culture Forum Associate, City of Amsterdam 11:15 – 13:00 Ice-breaker: get to know each other Los Angeles Danielle Brazell, General Manager, City of Los Leadership Exchange Programme Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Introductory Session New York Location: Academy Hall (3F), Dongdaemun Shirley Levy, Chief of Staff, Department of Design Plaza (DDP) Cultural Affairs, New York City

13:00 – 14:00 Seoul Lunch YOON Dayyoung, Director, Seoul Upcycling Plaza 14:00 – 14:50 Tour of Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Workshop 2: Making Space for Culture: Urbanism meeting the challenge

15:00 – 17:00 Drawing on the case studies and approaches Workshop 1: Climate change as cultural from the Making Space for Culture Handbook change for City Leaders, workshop participants will examine how their individual cities can ‘scale This workshop will build on the evidence and up’ their efforts in response to the challenge case studies gathered in the Culture and of development and change. Out of this the Climate Change Handbook for City Leaders to World Cities Culture Forum will produce a inspire and inform participants on the many ‘Policy Toolkit’ to be published in 2018. ways city leaders can embed environmental thinking in their policies and programmes. Location: Academy Hall (3F), Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) 11 Key questions: This session presents the latest research and • How is the affordability crisis affecting arts thinking on cultural participation from Seoul, and culture in world cities? who have just completed a major survey into • Cities play an important role in building the cultural life of its citizens, and from a an enabling environment when it comes number of other cities in other parts of the to making space for culture. What are they world. Cities cannot presume to know about doing in this regard? the cultural lives of their citizens, or rely on old • What is the importance of cultural space 20th century cultural infrastructure to serve to the arts and cultural ecosystem in world them. cities? Have cities undertaken research to understand the interrelationships between Location: Seoul Donhwamun Traditional arts and cultural activity and the creative Theater economy? Key questions: Moderator: Tim Jones, CEO of Artscape • What are the key trends and patterns (Toronto) in cultural participation in Seoul and elsewhere? Speakers: • Is there anything that other World Cities recognise in this data? Austin • How do cities understand and support Meghan Wells, Manager of Cultural everyday cultural participation by their Arts Division, City of Austin, Economic citizens? Development Department • What is the justification for city governments to shape culture in World London Cities? Laia Gasch, Special Advisor to the Deputy • How do World Cities cope with the Mayor for Culture, Mayor of London’s Office diversity of people, tastes and cultural forms? Sydney • What does digital cultural participation Lisa Colley, Manager Cultural Strategy, City of mean for World Cities? Sydney Moderator: Paul Owens, Co-founder and Vienna Director, BOP Consulting and Director, World Dieter Boyer, Senior Advisor to the City Cities Culture Forum Councillor and State Minister for Arts, Science and Sports of Vienna Speakers:

18:30 – 20:30 Chengdu Opening Dinner and performance Zhenghong Zhang, Deputy Mayor of Chengdu Municipal Government Location: Sevit Floating Island New York THURSDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2017 Shirley Levy, Chief of Staff, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City 09:30 – 10:00 Visit to Seoul Donhwamun Traditional Theater Rome and Performance Luca Bergamo, Vice Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Cultural Development, City of Rome 10:00 – 11:50 Panel Session Seoul New Civic Agendas for Culture: understanding Miree Byun, Director, Global Future Research the cultural life of citizens Center, Seoul Institute

12 Hae-Bo Kim, Director of Managing & Planning Speakers: Division, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Brussels Denis Laurent, Head, Department of Culture, 12:00 – 14:10 City of Brussels Lunch and tour of Arario Museum and Changdeokgung Palace Seoul Hae-Seong Lee, Director, Theater Black Tent; 15:00 – 17:00 Director, Theater GORAE Breakout sessions ChangHyun Lee, Chairperson of Cultural Breakout 1: Culture meets politics in the Policy Committee, Seoul Foundation for Arts public square and Culture

In South Korea as elsewhere, ‘The Market Won-Jae Lee, Director, Cultural Policy Center Square’ has sometimes been a place of of Cultural Action protest and violence. Artists are using these spaces to give voice to citizens in Taipei pursuit of social progress. In 2016-2017, Ann Yang, Deputy CEO, Taipei Culture Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul became Foundation the stage for such artistic activities. It was an attempt to unite with the citizens’ cultural Vienna movement for democracy. The square became Dieter Boyer, Senior Advisor to the City a symbolic site of civic culture. Councillor and State Minister for Arts, Science and Sports of Vienna Location: Sejong Center for the Performing Arts (M Theater Lobby) Warsaw Tomasz Thun-Janowski, Director, Department Key questions: of Culture, City of Warsaw • What happens when artists use city squares as sites of civic and political Breakout 2: Expressive lives: Does culture engagement? really make people happy? • Is it possible for artists to work within the public funding system to achieve social Culture is not something that is done and political change? to people, dictated and controlled by • What is too politically challenging for city governments, corporations or mass media. governments to fund? Instead, people are using technology and • Do networked citizens and social media forming associations which generate a grass- mean World Cities are connected like roots culture, one that makes them happy, never before? on their own terms. Sometimes this activity • Are World Cities special and distinct, in is sanctioned, even nurtured by city officials; being sites of civic engagement and civic sometimes this activity is counter-cultural. vitality? • How do moments of civic and cultural Location: Nakwon Music Mall turbulence transform a city? What are the appropriate forms of monuments and Key questions: memorials? • What is the role of everyday culture and community arts in World Cities? Moderator: Danielle Brazell, General • Can neighbourhoods be revived and Manager, City of Los Angeles Department of brought to life through play and creativity? Cultural Affairs • How do cities connect professional and established cultural organisations with community groups?

13 • In our busy cities, how do we encourage reconsideration of social infrastructure and people to slow down: to read, to listen, to the linkages between people. Culture is a vital watch? part of this. Cities are places for creativity • Does everyday creativity need to happen and craft, but can they withstand current separately from our digital lives? Must it be pressures? away from screens? • How might a focus on everyday culture Location: Sewoon Arcade (Sewoon lead to greater civic participation and Basement) happiness? Key questions: Moderator: Tom DeCaigny, Director of • What might a true ‘commons’ of resources, Cultural Affairs, City and County of San technologies, and production mean for Francisco artists and artisans in World Cities? • Are World Cities able to prevent the Speakers: take-over of artisanal practice by global corporations? Edinburgh • Do World Cities consider programmers Lynne Halfpenny, Director of Culture, The City and digital designers to be makers and of Edinburgh Council artisans? • Are studios and rehearsal spaces the Frank Little, Museums and Galleries Manager, factories of the future? The City of Edinburgh Council • What can World Cities do to ensure all communities benefit from new creative Hong Kong technologies and tools? Queenie Lau, Arts Development Director, • How are culture, arts and creative Hong Kong Arts Development Council industries to respond to the new ways of working, living and producing? Seoul Seunghyun Park, Director of Community Moderator: Clare Reddington, Creative Arts Division, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Director, Watershed Culture Speakers: Hyungchul Park, President, Daeil Co. Austin Singapore Jim Butler, Creative Industries Development Sin Nah Tan, Deputy Director (Community Manager, Cultural Arts Division, City of Austin, Engagement & Partnerships), Engagement & Economic Development Department Participation, National Arts Council Moscow Stockholm Maria Privalova, Director, Nekrasov Central Patrik Liljegren, Deputy Managing Director Library of Cultural Affairs and Chief of the Cultural Strategy Staff, Culture Administration Seoul Wonjae Kang, Coordinator of 00 UnivLAB Breakout 3: Back to the Future: Can small scale creative production survive in World Jie-Eun Hwang, Associate Professor, Cities? Department of Architecture, University of Seoul The technology of the 21st century is breaking down the separation of work, dwelling, leisure, Shenzhen and transportation; the divisions between Wen Wen, Director of Department of Project the natural and the artificial. Virtual Reality, Development, Institute for Cultural Industries the Internet of Things, Automation and Shenzhen University Artificial Intelligence – all of these demand a 14 Taipei • How can international collaboration (such Meng Fang Jiang, Sub-Division Chief, as WCCF) help us to devise more effective Cultural and Creative Development Division, strategies and programmes involving Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City citizens? Government • Can culture ignite a new global civic spirit? 19:00 - 21:00 Gala dinner Moderator: Justine Simons, Deputy Mayor for Culture and Creative Industries, Mayor Location: Samcheonggak of London’s Office and Chair, World Cities Culture Forum FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2017 Panel: 10:30 - 12:30 Public session: Can culture ignite a new civic Lisbon spirit in World Cities? Manuel Veiga, Municipal Director of Culture of the Municipality of Lisbon World cities today face many complex challenges from inequality, to congestion, to Moscow climate change. These challenges can only be Vladimir Filippov, Deputy Head, met successfully with the active involvement Moscow Department of Culture of their citizens. But as these challenges grow in scale and complexity, how do Mayors and Seoul other city leaders truly harness the power of ChangHyun Lee, Chairperson of Cultural the people? Here we explore what it takes to Policy Committee, Seoul Foundation for Arts build a cultural metropolis centred on citizen and Culture engagement, happiness and well-being. This public debate is chance to reflect on what we Sydney have learned from each other and to consider Lisa Colley, Manager Cultural Strategy, City of future strategies. Sydney

Location: Seoul Citizens’ Hall (Taepyeong Hall) Toronto Sally Han, Manager, Cultural Partnerships, Key questions: in Economic Development and Culture, City • What is the actual relationship between of Toronto culture, citizen engagement and social and economic progress? 12:30 - 14:00 • Should citizens’ happiness really be a Lunch and Feedback central priority of World City cultural policy? What does such a policy look like? Location: Seoul Citizens’ Hall (Baseurak Hall) How does it fit with other priorities? • What are the most effective strategies 14:00 - 15:00 for encouraging greater participation in Declaration culture? World Cities Culture Forum: Seoul Declaration • What is the role of city of city government 2017 in fostering greater cultural participation? • What will future models of culture-driven Closing Speeches citizen engagement look? Do we have Jeong Hyup (Thomas) Seo, Deputy Mayor of examples that show a path to the future? Cultural Affairs, SMG • What potential does new technology offer to put people and culture at the centre of Justine Simons, Deputy Mayor for Culture and change and progress? Creative Industries, Mayor of London’s Office and Chair of the World Cities Culture Forum

15 Participants

16 Amsterdam Austin

Araf Ahmadali, Policy Meghan Wells, Advisor for Arts and Manager of Cultural Culture / World Arts Division, City of Cities Culture Forum Austin, Economic Associate, City of Development Amsterdam Department

Araf Ahmadali is a With 19 years policy advisor for Arts of experience in and Culture at the City nonprofit and cultural of Amsterdam, with programming, Meghan experience in making policies on international Wells currently serves the City of Austin as cultural affairs, funding, entrepreneurship the Economic Development Department’s and creative industries and a passion for Cultural Arts Division Manager. She is creative (and digital) innovation and music responsible for developing arts, culture, and production. Araf was the project manager of creative industries as economic development the Amsterdam World Cities Culture Summit strategies, overseeing current programs 2014 and in 2015, as part of a secondment, and services for the creative community, joined the Mayor of London’s Culture Team as facilitating planning and integration of World Cities Culture Forum Associate. initiatives into larger civic and community efforts, and seeking innovative policies to Arts & Culture office of the City of advance local, regional, and national arts Amsterdam conversations.

The Arts & Culture office is responsible for Wells previously served the Division’s Art the City’s local, urban, regional, national and in Public Places (AIPP) program for eleven international cultural policies with an annual years. During her tenure, the program budget of € 145 million. Its main objectives commissioned over 70 new permanent include: artworks and over 30 temporary artworks • The strategic development, through the TEMPO (temporary public art) implementation and evaluation of the program, established the first Pre-Qualified City’s arts and culture policies; List of artists, and worked with private • Annual funding for over 150 cultural developers to include public art in new organisations and support of cultural commercial and residential projects. venues (in partnership with the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts) In early 2016, Wells shifted her focus to • Granting subsidies to the Amsterdam Public addressing affordability issues facing Library, the Public Broadcasting Company Austin’s arts community. She was a lead of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Fund for the contributor to the Music and Creative Arts and the Amsterdam Expert Centre for Ecosystem Stabilization Recommendations Cultural Education (Mocca); report, which called for a mix of City-led • The development and maintenance of initiatives, public-private partnerships, and cultural buildings in Amsterdam; community supported actions to retain and • Partnerships in different policy processes sustain the artist community. In addition with for example the Education, Economic to administering a $12 million annual Affairs, Urban Planning, Environment, investment in local arts, she spearheaded Communication, Citizenship, External and the first Artist-in-Residence program within International Affairs offices of the City of Austin city government, oversaw completion Amsterdam of a citywide Cultural Asset Mapping Project to identify additional strategic arts-led investment opportunities, and collaborates

17 with Partners in Sacred Places and the City of Austin, Economic Development Austin Independent School District to Department maximize use of untraditional arts spaces. The City of Austin has established itself as a Prior to joining the City of Austin, Wells world leader in technology, innovation, energy, worked with the USS Hornet Museum and workforce development, music and creativity the Missouri School Boards Association. She that has led to significant business expansion holds a B.A. from Rockhurst University, and and overall growth. The City’s Economic M.A. from Texas Tech University. She is a Development Department offers a unique member of the Americans for the Arts United model - one of just a few in the United States States Urban Arts Federation. that presents opportunities for Austin through collaborative, cross-sector work. To effectively Jim Butler, Creative support and recruit business in Austin, Industries the Economic Development Department Development has integrated a core global focus while Manager, Cultural supporting local initiatives through Cultural Arts Division, City of Arts, Music, Redevelopment/Downtown, and Austin, Economic Economic and Small Business Programs. It Development strive to create a sustainable cultural and Department economic environment that enhances the vitality of Austin. Strategic areas of cultural Jim Butler serves as and economic advancement: the Creative Industries Development Manager within the City of • Global Business Expansion: create jobs Austin’s Cultural Arts Division, part of the in Austin through business attraction and Economic Development Department. Since assist local businesses with international the early 1990’s, he has worked on economic expansion and trade. development projects, both for the Texas • Redevelopment: facilitate sustainable Governor’s Office and the City of Austin. growth of underutilized downtown assets His efforts have focused on improving the in partnership with the community and economies of Austin and the State by working project developers. to support and enhance the technology, • Small Business Program: foster job entertainment, and arts sectors locally and creation and support the growth of new across Texas. Currently, he is working to and existing businesses by providing address Austin’s lack of affordable creative capacity building resources. spaces and also to support the City’s creative • Cultural Arts Division: encourage a sector by connecting the arts and business strong cultural economy through cultural communities. development, cultural contracts with nonprofit arts and individual artists, Jim was born in Austin and has lived there creative industries, and public art. for over 50 years. He holds Master’s • Music & Entertainment: serve as a resource on Degrees from the University of Texas in both live music issues and implements emergent government and business. He is also certified music industry development programs. as an Economic Development Finance Professional.

18 Brussels at the graduate and post- graduate school of art and design ENSAV La Cambre and a Laurent Delvaux, contributor to L’Art Même, the publication of Chief Advisor to the the Visual Arts department of the Wallonia- Deputy Mayor for Brussels Federation. Before joining the Culture, City of City of Brussels, he was for many years the Brussels executive manager of an internationally active contemporary dance organisation, Laurent Delvaux has what has given him a direct insight into been the chief advisor both the arts production and the working of of the Deputy Mayor the cultural systems in the different parts for Culture of the City of Belgium and abroad. He has published of Brussels Karine many essays and articles on culture and the Lalieux since 2012. As such, he supports her creative industries, has been member of as the key initiator and negotiator, both within different committees and boards in the arts the City and with the other Brussels public sector and has collaborated in the field of and private partners and organizations, in communication with organisations like the all cultural matters. Before joining the City Kunstenfestivaldesarts and Charleroi Danses. of Brussels in 2006, he served for seven years as the chief advisor to several ministers The Department for Culture of the City of of the Brussels regional government, Brussels responsible for different matters (economic policy, employment, housing, urban The department for Culture of the City of development, education and culture). This Brussels is responsible for the production of gives him a firsthand knowledge of Brussels events in public spaces such as Nuit Blanche, opportunities and challenges. He has served the running of the contemporary arts centre and still serves as board member for many CENTRALE and its satellites CENTRALE/box cultural organizations, as president of the and CENTRALE/lab, the support of the City’s house for performing arts La Bellone and of own cultural institutions (five local cultural the organization in charge of the professional centres, three theatres, one theatre for young integration of young actors and directors audiences, one choreographic centre, one Centre des Arts Scéniques, and as vice- resource centre and library dedicated to the president of the cinema promotion agency performing arts…), the granting of subsidies Cinergie. He has a master in history. to cultural institutions and projects, the administration of permits… The department Denis Laurent, Head, for Culture works closely with the department Department of for Museums, which conserves and brings to Culture, City life the very rich Brussels historical heritage Brussels through several museums and archaeological sites, and the department for Archives, which Denis Laurent manages one of the largest historical archives works for the City of in Belgium. Brussels since 2015, first as head of the Culture Department, then as Director for Culture, Museums and Archives. His mission is a.o. to advise the office of the Alderwoman for Culture and to help translate on the field the cultural policies of the City of Brussels. Denis Laurent is also Professor

19 Chengdu Art Academy, the Chengdu Culture and Art School, the Center of Intangible Cultural Zhang Zhenghong, Heritage Protection of Chengdu and the Deputy Mayor, Chengdu Art Theater Company Co., Ltd. Chengdu Municipal Government Yong Ren, Deputy General Manager, Zhang Zhenghong Chengdu Media was born in Group September 1970 in Chongqing Yong Ren is currently Municipality. Mr. Zhang the Deputy General holds a Master degree Manager of the in Engineering from the Department of Water Chengdu Media Resources and Hydropower Engineering of Group. He is a senior Tsinghua University. As the Deputy Mayor of economist and is Chengdu Municipal People’s Government, in charge of the investment management Mr. Zhang Zhenghong is responsible for for the Chengdu Media Group. Prior to his issues like environmental protection, culture, current position, he was the general manager press and publication, radio and television, of Chengdu Xinwen Industry Co., Ltd which industry and commerce, quality supervision, is the largest culture and creative industry food and drug administration, sports, tourism investment company under Chengdu Media etc. Accordingly, he is supervising the Group. following municipal departments: Bureau of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Culture, Chengdu Media Group Radio and Television, and Publication (Bureau of Cultural Heritage, Bureau of Copyright), Chengdu Media Group is the largest Bureau of Industry and Commerce, Bureau of organization in investing and managing Quality Supervision, Bureau of Food and Drug culture, media and creative industries in Administration, Bureau of Sports, Bureau of Chengdu. In Sichuan Province, Chengdu Tourism, to name a few. Media Group’s subsidiary – ‘Borui Communication’ is the only public listed Chen Lizhi, company in culture and media industry. The lnspector of Music Park called ‘The Memory of Eastern Chengdu Bureau of Suburbs’ which Chengdu Media Group Culture, Radio, Film, invested to build and operate, is the most Television, Press important culture project for Chengdu and Publication Municipal Government. Chengdu Media Group is strategically positioning its Culture Chen Lizhi is in and Creative industry ambitious, including charge of issues such building Qingcheng Culture and Creative as Art and Culture, Silicon Valley and exclusive releasing the Intangible Cultural China Cultural and Creative Index. Designed Heritage, Culture Industry, Infrastructure by four world class designers, Chengdu Media Construction and other related works. He Group’s property ‘Ziku Hotel’ was selected is supervising the Division of Art, Division by the world’s most influential Venetian of Intangible Cultural Heritage Division architectural biennale in 2016. of Culture Industry (Project Office). He is also responsible for contacting the Office of Music Industry, the Chengdu Institute of Sichuan Opera Research, the Chengdu Institute of Beijing Opera Research, Chengdu

20 Xi Song, CEO, Edinburgh DEFARA Lynne Halfpenny, Xi Song is the Founder Director of Culture, and CEO of DEFARA. The City of He graduated from Edinburgh Council the University of Cambridge in the UK Lynne has 30 years’ and Aarhus University experience of in Denmark. His successfully working early career involved in the cultural sector consulting, marketing and creative industries. in Scotland. She He has been appointed as the Director in began her career at charge for The Nielsen Company and Ogilvy the 1986 Commonwealth Games Arts Festival Mather/WPP in Western China Region. Xi is as Marketing Officer and International Artist the founder of DEFARA and is devoted to help Liaison Lead. Lynne went on from there to creative individuals and organizations achieve the west coast of Scotland to run an Arts greater success through culture, fashion and Centre and community festivals and events arts. before returning to Edinburgh in 1989 to take on the role of Arts Officer with Edinburgh’s DEFARA local authority. Most recently Lynne has been appointed as Director of Culture with DEFARA was initially a Fashion Incubator for a responsibility for a staffing complement young and emerging artist and designers. After of c180, cultural venues, the civic museums years of development, DEFARA is now one of service, arts, festivals and events and public the most active organizations that promotes safety for the Council. Edinburgh’s reputation culture, fashion and arts in China. DEFARA is as a cultural and heritage destination also the organizer for Chengdu International continues to grow and joint approaches to Fashion Week (CIFW) and several culture monitoring this reputation is key. The most and arts events. It was awarded the Creative recent example of this saw a new Culture Plan Company of Year in 2016. DEFARA is aiming for the city adopted, following a major public to help cities in China to connect to the world engagement exercise. This process led to a through cultural exchange and to help talent call for the creation of a Culture Task Group to individuals in fashion and arts to be widely oversee and ensure that the cultural life of the successful in the world. city is protected and nurtured. The leaders on this group come from the private, public and voluntary sectors of Edinburgh. In September this group was invited to assist in the development and realisation of a city vision for Edinburgh which places Culture at its heart. Throughout Lynne’s career, partnership working has been a watchword, critical to a range of successes especially working with Edinburgh’s Festivals and cultural venues in Edinburgh to ensure that they continue to thrive and act as local, national and international beacons of success.

21 Frank Little, Cultural The City of Edinburgh Council Venues Manager (Museums and The City of Edinburgh Council is the second Galleries), The City of largest council in Scotland and the ninth Edinburgh Council largest in the UK, with a workforce of 19,000 employees and a budget of around £1bn Frank has over thirty for the financial year 2015/16. The Council years’ experience is committed to playing a dynamic role on of working in the the local, national and international stage museums and galleries and has a strong commitment to corporate sector in Scotland. management, a willingness to innovate and a As Cultural Venues Manager (Museums and determination to set the highest standards. Galleries) he has responsibility for some of Europe’s most architecturally important The Council plays a central role in shaping buildings including 12 museum venues, two the continued success of Edinburgh as a art galleries and over 200 monuments. The 21st century capital city. Our responsibilities collections are diverse and a number are are wide-ranging, from schooling through to Recognised by the Scottish Government social work, housing, economic development, as being of national and international parks and green spaces, culture and sport, significance. The venues are located mainly festivals and events, roads and transport. within in Edinburgh’s historic World Heritage Site and attract over 800,000 visitors per year. The Council’s Culture Division plays a crucial role in Edinburgh’s cultural offering. It runs He has worked in the museums sector since 15 Museums and Galleries, Scotland’s only the 1980s. He has held senior positions in 5 star graded international concert hall, and museum services across Scotland including a number of flexible events spaces. In total, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, the UK’s these venues attract over 1 million visitors largest local authority museum service. a year. It also is responsible for over 200 monuments, an award-winning outreach He was a member of the Scottish and public access programme, the delivery Government’s Think Tank on the future of of major and civic events throughout the the museums sector in Scotland leading year and cultural policy development. In to the first sector wide National Strategy addition, it provides vital funding to cultural launched by the Cabinet Secretary in April partners including Edinburgh’s internationally 2012. He is the Chair of the East of Scotland renowned 12 festivals, a range of theatres, Museums Partnership, a consortium of 40 visual arts and community groups. partner organisations dedicated to fostering excellence in museum practice through partnership development, knowledge exchange and the sharing of best practice. Hong Kong Throughout his career he has championed the use of collections to engage Queenie Lau, Arts communities through active participation as Development a way of understanding and debate shared Director, Hong Kong experiences to enhance wellbeing, identity Arts Development and social cohesion. Council

Queenie Lau is the Arts Development Director of the Hong Kong Arts Development

22 Council (HKADC). She is responsible for the the ADC is also committed to facilitating development and promotion of arts in Hong community-wide participation in the arts and Kong by supporting the activities of local arts education, encouraging arts criticism, arts practitioners and arts groups through a raising the standard of arts administration number of grant schemes. She is in charge of and strengthening the work on policy projects including Hong Kong’s participation research. The ADC is one of the key agencies in the 58th International Art Exhibition and of the Home Affairs Bureau in the promotion 16th International Architecture Exhibition of of arts and culture. Venice Biennale, Hong Kong’s participation in the 11th edition of Gwangju Biennale, LitStream (Literary Arts Festival) and the 5th large-scale Public Media Art Exhibition: Human Vibration. Kiki Chan, Assistant Prior to joining the HKADC, she was the Secretary for Home Curator of the Hong Kong Design Institute Affairs (Culture), & Institute of Vocational Education (Lee Hong Kong Wai Lee) during 2011 – 2015. She led the curatorial events and exhibitions in the Ms Kiki Chan is development, promotion, administration and currently Assistant publicity of the cultural cluster, major art Secretary at the spaces i.e. HKDI Gallery, d-mart, Experience Culture Branch of the Centre and fashion archive of the Institutes. Home Affairs Bureau. From 2008 – 2011, she was the Arts Support Her portfolio covers Manager at the HKADC and she managed policies relating to private museums and the disbursement of grants to visual arts and visual arts, as well as manpower situation and literary arts sectors in Hong Kong. From training needs study of the arts and cultural 2005 – 2008, she was the Arts and Creative sector in Hong Kong. Ms Chan is a member Industries Manager at the British Council. of the Administrative Service of the Hong Her major role was to identify and develop Kong Special Administrative Government. sustainable relationships with organisations Prior to joining the Home Affairs Bureau in cultural sectors between Hong Kong, China in February 2017, she served in the Home and the UK. From 1996 – 2003, she was the Affairs Department and worked on district Assistant Curator at the Hong Kong Museum administration in one of the 18 administrative of Art and Art Promotion Office, organising districts in Hong Kong. blockbuster exhibitions and community arts projects. Home Affairs Bureau, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Hong Kong Arts Development Council The Home Affairs Bureau (HAB) of the Established in 1995, the Hong Kong Arts Government of the Hong Kong Special Development Council (ADC) is a statutory Administrative Region has policy body set up by the Government of the Hong responsibility over the whole spectrum of Kong Special Administrative Region to arts and culture encompassing performing support the broad development of the arts arts, visual arts, public arts, libraries, including literary arts, performing arts, visual museums and intangible cultural heritage, arts as well as film and media arts in Hong covering the development of both cultural Kong. Its major roles include grant allocation, infrastructure and cultural software policy and planning, advocacy, promotion (including arts education, audience building, and development, and programme planning. programme development and grooming of Aiming to foster a thriving arts environment talents, etc). Its vision is to develop Hong and enhance the quality of life of the public, Kong as an international cultural metropolis

23 with a distinct identity grounded in Chinese Officer. Between 2012 and 2016 he worked traditions and enriched by different cultures, with the Minister Of Culture and Tourism of where life is celebrated through cultural Republic Of Turkey as Deputy Chief of Cabinet pursuit, and as a prominent hub of cultural of the Minister. Since then he has worked in exchanges. his current Office where he is developing projects for Istanbul with his colleagues to enhance the city’s cultural industry and tourism sector. Bekir holds a B.S. degree in Economics.

Istanbul Istanbul Culture and Tourism Directorate, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism Mumin Yıldıztas, Deputy Director, Istanbul Culture and Tourism Directorate Istanbul Provincial is the provincial representative and local Directorate of coordinating body of the Turkish Ministry Culture and Tourism of Culture and Tourism. The Directorate is composed of fourteen departments and Mumin Yıldıztas is about 150 staff members. the Deputy Director of Istanbul Provincial The Directorate contributes to the Directorate of Culture international promotion of Istanbul and and Tourism. He manages the tourism information offices studied History at Istanbul University Faculty located in the city’s touristic districts. Its of Letters. Between 1990 and 2016, he officials conduct regular audits of the tourism worked at the General Directorate of State sector (hotels, travel agencies, tour guides, Archives, within the central organization etc.) to ensure they comply with the standards of the Prime Ministry and consisting of determined by the Ministry. The Directorate’s three departments: the Ottoman Archives responsibilities further include the smooth (Istanbul), Republican Archives (Ankara) and operation of the city’s public museums and Documentation (Ankara). Mr. Yıldıztas holds libraries, providing official certificates to a M.S. degree in Turkish History and he is an cultural establishments (such as cinemas expert of History of Republic Of Turkey. He is and publishers), hosting and supporting arts responsible for Strategy, Publicity, Research and cultural events as well as organizing and Education departments of Istanbul workshops to identify the sector needs. Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism. The Directorate is also a prominent Bekir Kopar, organization in Istanbul in terms of cultural Department research and studies. It produced the ‘City Manager, Publicity and Culture: Istanbul’ textbook, which is Branch, Istanbul the central piece of the elective ‘İstanbul Provincial courses’ offered by the city’s universities. Directorate of The Directorate is also a partner of the Culture and Tourism Istanbul Cultural Heritage and Cultural Economy Inventory, a research project Beki Kopar is the collecting both qualitative and quantitative Department Manager detailed information about the city’s cultural of the Publicity Branch environment. of Istanbul Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism. He worked in the private sector for more than ten years specializing in Free Trade Zones. In 2011 and 2012 he worked at the President’s Cabinet as a Protocol

24 Lisbon remained for four years. In 2006, she began her duties at the Madeira Classical Orchestra, Manuel Veiga, as Assistant to the Artistic Director, and Municipal Director of Programming Assistant, responsible for Culture, Municipality communication. From 2007 to 2015, she of Lisbon worked as production manager at Company Clara Andermatt. Currently she is the advisor Manuel Veiga to the Deputy Mayor for Culture of Lisbon’s graduated in Law City Council, Catarina Vaz Pinto. from the Faculty of Law of the University Culture in the Municipality of Lisbon of Lisbon, and has a post-graduation in The Municipality of Lisbon´s mission for Cultural Management in Cities from INDEG Culture is to promote the cultural fruition and / IUL (ISCTE). His professional practice diversity in the city, as well as to facilitate is in the fields of cultural production and and to give better conditions for creation, management, having worked in institutions production and promotion to cultural and organizations such as the Calouste agents. To this end, we have defined the Gulbenkian Foundation (Gulbenkian following objectives: to promote access to Creativity and Artistic Creation Programme), culture and cultural growth; to disseminate Quaternaire Portugal - Consultancy for the cultural offer; to encourage cultural Development, INATEL Foundation (Division of creation; to rehabilitate and protect the Cultural Activities), CENTA - Centre of Studies material and immaterial cultural heritage; of New Artistic Tendencies and Belgais to internationalize the city and its cultural - Centre for the Study of the Arts. Since agents and to promote and to value the November 2013, he has been the Municipal transversal dimension of culture. The city’s Director of Culture of the Municipality of Office for Culture establishes and develops Lisbon, where he had previously been advisor the essential conditions in the city for music, to the Councillor for Culture, between 2009 theater, dance, visual arts, literature, design, and 2013. cinema, public art and shows in public spaces to be created and to happen, and enables Alexandra Sabino, the operation of archives and libraries. Advisor to the Lisbon’s mission and objectives for Culture Deputy Mayor for are addressed via two different bodies: by Culture, Municipality DMC – Direção Municipal de Cultura, within of Lisbon the municipality’s structure, and by EGEAC, a public company at an arm’s length of the Alexandra Sabino was municipality. born in Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal. She The Municipality of Lisbon’s approach to studied International Culture envisions a city that thinks, creates Relations and and shares Culture. began her work in cultural production at the University Theatre of Minho, in 1998. She was part of the team of Porto 2001 - European Capital of Culture as a production assistant in the area of community participation. In 2002, participated as an executive producer of a contemporary dance festival and in the same year started working with Teatro Bruto, a theatre company from Porto, where she

25 London Jackie McNerney, Acting Head of Justine Simons OBE, Culture, Mayor of Deputy Mayor for London’s Office Culture and Creative Industries, Mayor of Jackie is Acting Head London’s Office and of Culture in the Chair, World Cities Mayor of London’s Culture Forum Culture Team, where she leads on Justine has worked for international projects the Mayor of London including the World Cities Culture Forum for over 15 years and The Culture Diary. Previously, Jackie has and has played a central role in the cultural worked in a variety of cultural organisations revitalisation of London. She was awarded an across the UK. Her last job, as Chief OBE by Her Majesty the Queen in 2015 for Operating Officer at the Serpentine Gallery, Services to Culture in London. She believes included working on the lead up to the culture is central to London’s success as a opening of the new Serpentine Sackler global city and has the power to transform Gallery. Jackie has also worked for the lives and places. Manchester International Festival, a biennial commissioning arts festival presenting world During her time at City Hall she has shaped premieres in Manchester and then touring a strategy to establish London as a leading them internationally. She has also worked in global creative capital. Culture is the number several theatre organisations including the one reason people visit London. It is the third Royal Shakespeare Company, Lyric Theatre biggest film city, a leading fashion capital Hammersmith and Kneehigh Theatre. Jackie for both men’s and womenswear and has also sits on the Board of the Centre for the biggest design festival in the world. Chinese Contemporary Art in Manchester. Justine staged the capital’s biggest ever festival for the London 2012 Olympic and Laia Gasch, Special Paralympic Games with over 5000 events Advisor to the and established the Fourth Plinth as a global Deputy Mayor for exemplar for public sculpture. Culture, Mayor of London's Office As Deputy Mayor she is pioneering groundbreaking cultural policy. From the first As Special Advisor for ever Cultural Infrastructure Plan, to Cultural the Deputy Mayor for Enterprise Zones - dedicated areas to support Culture and Creative artists, a new London Borough of Culture Industries, Laia Award to celebrate the best of London’s advises on cultural neighbourhoods and the UK’s first Night policy and has been pivotal in developing Czar to champion the night time economy. new areas, for example embedding culture She also chairs the commission that will put in the capital’s spatial planning; addressing the first ever statue of a woman on London’s the need for creative workspace; developing Parliament Square. a night time economy policy and the establishment of a ‘Night Csar’; and the Justine founded and is Chair of the World inclusion of a games industry festival as part Cities Culture Forum – an influential network of the Mayor’s creative industries portfolio. of 35 global cities championing the pivotal Originally from Barcelona, she came to role of culture. London to do a degree at Goldsmiths College and has lived in London ever since. She has worked as a creative producer leading

26 national and international projects for like- the Mayor and leading a full time staff of 64 minded organisations including the Cultural and a part-time staff of 80. Ms. Brazell directs Olympiad during the London 2012 Olympic and works with the progressive arts agency’s Games, the BBC, where she led an award- Public Art, Grants Administration, Community wining youth arts programme, and has led Arts, Performing Arts, and Marketing projects for arts organisations including and Development Division Directors to Tate Modern, the Southbank Centre and the oversee a $42 million portfolio of facilities, London International Festival of Theatre. programming, and initiatives providing arts Laia is a cultural activist in her local area, she and cultural services in Los Angeles. founded London’s first parent-run nursery and helped set up a local market, a neighbours Prior to being appointed to this position in and businesses association, and supports the the summer of 2014, Ms. Brazell was the local arts centre. Executive Director of Arts for LA, a regional advocacy organization working to foster a Greater London Authority healthy environment in which arts and culture may thrive and be accessible to all in the The Greater London Authority (GLA) is a region. During her tenure, she transitioned strategic authority with a London wide role the organization from an ad-hoc steering to design a better future for the capital. It committee comprised of local executive arts supports the work of the Mayor of London, leadership, to a highly visible arts advocacy helping his office to develop and deliver organization serving the greater Los Angeles strategies for London. It also supports the region. Under her stewardship, Arts for LA London Assembly in their role of scrutinising became a formidable coalition advancing the the work of the Mayor and representing the arts in the largest county in the country. Ms. interests of Londoners. While the Mayor Brazell’s additional professional experience and the London Assembly are elected also includes working as the Artistic Director by Londoners, the staff of the GLA are a of Highways Performance Space and as the permanent body that provides continuity Director of Special Projects for the Screen in the ongoing development and delivery Actors Guild Foundation. She serves as a of strategies for London. It is their role, board member of Americans for the Arts and regardless of the political background of the DataArts. Mayor, his team or Assembly Members, to make sure that the work they do on behalf of City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural London is of the highest standard that this Affairs (DCA) great city deserves. As a leading, progressive arts and cultural agency, DCA empowers Los Angeles’s vibrant communities by supporting and providing access to quality visual, literary, musical, Los Angeles performing, and educational arts programming; managing vital cultural centers; preserving Danielle Brazell, historic sites; creating public art; and funding General Manager, services provided by arts organizations and City of Los Angeles individual artists. Department of Cultural Affairs Formed in 1925, DCA promotes arts and (DCA) culture as a way to ignite a powerful dialogue, engage LA’s residents and visitors, and Danielle Brazell is ensure LA’s varied cultures are recognized, the General Manager acknowledged, and experienced. DCA’s of the City of Los mission is to strengthen the quality of life in Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), reporting directly to

27 Angeles by stimulating and supporting arts and Los Angeles County Arts Commission cultural activities, ensuring public access to the arts for residents and visitors alike. The Arts Commission provides leadership in cultural services of all disciplines for the largest DCA advances the social and economic County in the United States, encompassing impact of arts and culture through 88 municipalities. It funds 364 nonprofit arts grantmaking, public art, community arts, organizations through a two-year $9 million performing arts, and strategic marketing grant program, implements Arts for All, the and development. DCA creates and supports regional initiative dedicated to restoring arts programming, maximizing relationships arts education to 81 public school districts, with other city agencies, artists, and arts programs and operates the Ford Theatres, and cultural nonprofit organizations to funds the largest arts internship program in provide excellent service in neighborhoods the country and manages the County’s civic throughout Los Angeles. art policy. The Arts Commission also produces free community programs, including the Emmy Award-winning LA County Holiday Celebration broadcast on public television.

Bronwyn Mauldin, Director of Research and Evaluation, Los Angeles County Arts Laura Zucker, Senior Commission Fellow, Masters in Arts Management at Bronwyn Mauldin is Claremont Graduate Director of Research University and Evaluation at the Los Angeles County In 2017 Laura Zucker Arts Commission. stepped down after She oversees a team that utilizes data and 25 years as executive social science methods to improve the Arts director of the Los Commission’s work and strengthen the Angeles County Arts arts ecology. Ms. Mauldin has spent her Commission, which provides cultural services career conducting applied research and for the largest county in the US. evaluation for nonprofits, philanthropies and government. She has evaluated farmworker The Arts Commission funds more than 400 programs in California’s Central Valley, nonprofit arts organizations, implements the studied employment conditions for truck regional initiative dedicated to restoring arts drivers in the Pacific Northwest, analyzed education to 81 public school districts, funds barriers to reentry for people leaving prison, the largest paid arts internship program for served as a nonpartisan policy analyst in the undergraduates in the country, and manages Washington State House of Representatives, the county's civic art policy, which creates and researched villager organizing in extraordinary experiences in everyday places. rural northeast Thailand. She teaches research methods to graduate students in For more than two decades she led the the Sotheby’s Institute arts administration revitalization of the Ford Theatres and was program at Claremont Graduate University. executive producer of the Emmy Award Ms. Mauldin has a master’s in public winning Holiday Celebration. During her administration from the University of tenure, Ms. Zucker completed a strategic Washington. She is also a novelist. plan for Cultural Equity and Inclusion that

28 resulted in actionable recommendations. Five he is in charge of public parks, cultural of which, including the creation of a cultural and exhibition centers, museums, libraries, policy for the region and embedding creative children’s leisure and city festivals. In 2008– strategists in multiple county departments, 2012, Vladimir worked as the Head of the are being implemented now: https://www. Department of Family and Youth Policy at the lacountyarts.org/ceii-report Northeastern Administrative Area of Moscow where he introduced the system of youth In 2017 she was part of the first World Culture councils. In 2012–2013, he was a Deputy Summit in Abu Dhabi, which brought together Head of the Department of Family and Youth cultural leaders from 80 countries. Policy of Moscow. In 2007, he received a PhD degree in Sociology. For his work Vladimir Her leadership helped shape the regional has received government awards and merit cultural calendar on ExperienceLA.com, certificates. which is now part of DiscoverLA.com managed by the Los Angeles Convention Alexander Bodrov, and Tourism Board. Ms. Zucker headed the Head of the Cultural California Cultural Tourism Initiative, which Centres Office, marketed the arts of California’s three urban Moscow Department regions domestically and internationally. She of Culture is the author of a regional study of individual artists as part of the California Arts Council’s Alexander started economic impact study on the arts. his career at one of Moscow’s district Ms. Zucker serves on the boards of councils. Later he Grantmakers in the Arts, and the Trusteeship, became part of the Southern California Chapter of the the Moscow Department for Family And International Women's Forum. She is also a Youth Policy. In 2012 he joined the Moscow member of the LA Coalition for Jobs and the Department of Culture where he is now in Economy. She is a past board member of the charge of the office that governs over 400 Association of Arts Administration Educators public libraries, around 200 cultural centres and was a founding member of the board of and 13 city cinemas. Arts for LA. Anna Shalimova, She received a B.A. from Barnard College Head of the Press- and attended the Yale School of Drama. Centre and As a senior fellow at Claremont Graduate Information Office, University, she continues to teach a course Moscow Department about the intersection of the arts with other of Culture fields for the Masters in Arts Management program. Since 2011 Anna has been at the civil Moscow service of the Moscow Government. Until Vladimir Filippov, 2014 she held the position of the advisor Deputy Head, for the Moscow Department of Interregional Moscow Department Cooperation, National Policy and Relations of Culture with Religious Organisations. Then she joined the Moscow Department of Cultural Heritage. Vladimir Filippov Since 2015 she has been in charged of PR for was appointed a the Moscow Department of Culture. Deputy Head of the Department of Culture of Moscow on 24 June 2013. In this position 29 Moscow Department of Culture Alina Bogatkova, First Deputy Moscow Department of Culture is part Director, Nekrasov of the Moscow Government. It develops Central Library, municipal targeted programmes in the arts Moscow and culture. Today it plays a key role in the Moscow cultural policy. The Department of Alina holds the Culture manages about 500 legal entities, position of the First located at more than 1000 addresses all over Deputy Director of Moscow. In addition to museums, theaters, the Nekrasov Central libraries, parks, exhibition halls, cultural Library, the main centers, youth centers, arts schools, concert public library of Moscow. She is responsible halls and cinemas, the Department includes for research, income generation, human organizations involved in sectoral and resources management and key development territorial development. It develops pedestrian projects. Prior to that Alina had an equivalent zones, organizes city festivals, launches position at the Moscow Institute for Social grant programmes for cultural institutions, and Cultural Programmes where she was in educational events for cultural managers and charge of research and analytics, workshops creative industry entrepreneurs, etc. Also the for employees of cultural institutions and Department is in charge of big city festivals communication between cultural managers and public holidays celebrations held in and the research team of the Institute. Moscow. Besides, she worked as a Deputy Director of the Mikhail Bulgakov Museum helping manage the staff and organise city festivals.

Nekrasov Central Library, Moscow

The Nekrasov Central Library is the main public library of Moscow. It possesses the collection Maria Privalova, of 1.5 mln items in more than a hundred Director, Nekrasov languages and provides free access to various Central Library, digital resources and databases. It organises Moscow exhibitions, festivals and conferences as well as experiments with new formats of cultural Maria is in charge events and edutainment promoting reading and of the Nekrasov lifelong learning. Central Library, the main public library The Nekrasov Central Library is also research of Moscow. Through and training center. In 2017 it was merged with the efforts of Maria the Moscow Institute for Social and Cultural and her team this library has become a Programmes (miscp.ru) that does applied prominent institution on Moscow’s cultural research in the cultural field. The Library took scene. Prior to that, she served as the Director on all the projects of the institute. Also together of the Moscow Institute for Social and with the Moscow Department of Culture and Cultural Programmes where she still acts as other stakeholders the Nekrasov Central a research curator. Maria is a TEDxMoscow Library is in charge of shaping the vision and co-organiser. She also worked as curator and development strategy for the extended Moscow producer for various cultural and educational library network. projects, including: Moscow International Forum “Culture. Looking into the future”, international design festival DesignAct; installations at the Central House of Artists; the “Collected Works” festival in the Russian State Library, and many others. 30 New York Ryan Max, Director of External Affairs, Shirley Levy, Chief of Department of Staff, Department of Cultural Affairs, Cultural Affairs, New York City New York City Ryan Max serves as As the Chief of Director of External Staff for the NYC Affairs at the New Department of York City Department Cultural Affairs of Cultural Affairs. In (DCLA), Shirley this role, he manages public affairs, media develops strategy and relations, and a range of special projects drives day-to-day management for the largest for the agency. He previously worked for a municipal funder for arts and culture in the community development organization in the United States. South Bronx.

She works across City agencies and New New York City Department of Cultural York’s vast cultural sector to create and Affairs expand opportunities for artists and cultural organizations to engage with city residents. The New York City Department of Cultural She also spearheads specific programs and Affairs (DCLA) is dedicated to supporting and initiatives for the agency: in 2015 Shirley strengthening New York City's vibrant cultural launched and now manages DCLA’s Public life. DCLA works to promote and advocate for Artists-in-Residence program (PAIR) that public access to quality arts programming embeds artists in City agencies to apply and to articulate the contribution made by creative practice to pressing civic issues. the cultural community to the City’s vitality. The agency represents and serves nonprofit In 2016 Shirley was instrumental in cultural organizations involved in the visual, establishing the task force guiding the City’s literary and performing arts; public-oriented Affordable Real Estate for Artists (AREA) science and humanities institutions including initiative, designed to develop affordable zoos, botanical gardens and historic and workspace to help sustain and grow the New preservation societies; and creative artists York’s creative sector. at all skill levels who live and work within the City’s five boroughs. DCLA also provides She currently oversees various collaborations donated materials for arts programs offered with the Department of Education to expand by the public schools and cultural and arts access to public school students, serves social service groups, and commissions on the City’s Children’s Cabinet, and most permanent works of public art at City-funded recently launched the Mayor’s Grant for construction projects throughout the five Cultural Impact to connect underserved boroughs. communities with more cultural programming.

She holds a Masters Degree in Arts Administration from Teachers College Columbia University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from Brandeis University.

31 Paris planning consulting and in cultural, innovation and economic development’s policies. She Carine Camors, contributed to the master planning process of Urban Economist, the Paris metropolitan development strategy. IAU Ile-de-France She is one of the two coordinators and researchers in charge of the Paris region for Carine is one of the the World Cities Culture Forum. two researchers of Paris region for IAU Ile-de-France the World Cities Culture Forum. She IAU Ile-de-France is Paris Region Urban is an Economist Planning & Development Agency. It has and she is currently 50 years of experience in the urban working at the Paris Region Urban Planning development of the metropolis of Paris and & Development Agency (IAU), Paris, France. international planning projects. Thanks to She has been working for more than 15 years a 200-strong multidisciplinary staff with on Employment, Social and Entrepreneurship expertise covering all aspects of planning, IAU issues. This contributes to the development carries out a global conception of planning of more effective regional policies. She also using an integrated approach (mobility and contributed to the master planning process transport, urban project, demographics and of the Paris metropolitan development housing, economic development, network strategy. Carine is particularly interested in management, vision of social practices, understanding and accompanying digital culture). As a regional think tank, IAU is and creative transition. For many years, she involved in the economic development aspect focused her work on creative and cultural of culture as well as the capital region’s industries (CCI) to highlight the economic cultural facilities and practices planning, potential of this sector and its impact on providing guidance and support to decision- social and territorial development: profile makers in their practical and political choices. of the creative workforce and the dynamics Since 2005, IAU pioneered the creative sector at the regional scale, location of cultural and job cross-analysis in France. IAU issues a clustering, etc. Today, she works on the wide range of publications, available online at emergence of the sharing economy and the www.iau-idf.fr. new ways of working and their impacts on employment.

Odile Soulard, Urban Economist, IAU Ile-de-France

Odile Soulard is an Economist at the Paris Region Urban Planning & Development Agency (IAU), Paris, France. Her areas of expertise are mainly related to the knowledge economy: R&D, innovation, creative economy (cultural and creative industries) and dynamics of networks, in local and international urban contexts. Working alongside local governments and planning agencies she has acquired extensive experience in urban

32 Rome organisations and institutions fully and partially owned by Roma Capitale for an Luca Bergamo, Vice annual budget amounting to over € 166 Mayor and Deputy million. Mayor for Cultural Development, City of 2. The Superintendence for Cultural Rome Heritage of Rome manages, maintains and enhances the archaeological, Luca Bergamo is Vice historical, artistic and monumental Mayor of the City of heritage belonging to Roma Capitale both Rome and Deputy in its historical centre and in the rest of Mayor for cultural the city. Under its direct management are development. From ancient to modern heritage attractions, 2012 to 2016, he was Secretary General of UNESCO sites, historical villas and parks, Culture Action Europe, the biggest network 21 museums gathered under the network that gives voice to the cultural sector in of “Musei in Comune”. Europe. Previously, he led the establishment of Zone Attive, a company founded on his proposal by the City of Rome dedicated to event and cultural production. In 2007, he was called to lead the Italian National Agency for Youth. In late 2004, he was appointed Director-General of the Glocal Forum, an international foundation promoting peace San Francisco dialogue in post-conflict areas through local diplomacy and cultural cooperation. Tom DeCaigny, Director of Cultural Deputy Mayor for Culture’s Office, Affairs, City and City of Rome County of San Francisco The Deputy Mayor for Culture’s Office sets out strategies for the cultural development Tom DeCaigny is the of the city of Rome, impacting on policies Director of Cultural concerning cultural activities, cultural Affairs for the City institutions, heritage conservation, and County of San enhancement and promotion. Francisco. As the It acts both through direct action with Director of Cultural Affairs, he oversees the cultural municipality departments and San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC), the through relations with regional, national and $24 million City agency that champions the international bodies. arts as essential to daily life by investing in a vibrant arts sector, enlivening the urban It primarily gives strategic and operational environment and shaping innovative cultural guidelines to two municipality Departments: policy. Before being appointed Director of Cultural Affairs by Mayor Ed Lee in 2012, Mr. 1. The Department for Culture ensures DeCaigny was an independent consultant coordination, promotion and and strategist in the fields of arts and culture, administrative services in order to support youth development and education. He the city's cultural activities generated served nine years as Executive Director of by local community groups, municipality Performing Arts Workshop, a San Francisco- cultural centres and institutions. It is based organization dedicated to helping also responsible for coordinating and marginalized young people develop critical supporting the cultural activities of 11 thinking, creative expression and essential

33 learning skills through the arts. He helped planners, travel trade, journalists and San found an arts middle school for youth in the Francisco Travel partners). Previously, Howard juvenile justice system, managed the AIDS worked for five years as Chief Marketing Memorial Quilt’s National Youth Education Officer for Mammoth Mountain Ski Area. Program and conducted research for Prior to that he was Chief Marketing Officer the National Committee for Responsive at Kerzner International, Inc. Pickett was also Philanthropy. He currently serves on the with the Walt Disney Company for 13 years Executive Committee of the U.S. Urban Arts in top leadership positions in the Parks and Federation and is a prior board member of Resorts division. Prior to his time with the the California Alliance for Arts Education. Mr. Walt Disney Company, Pickett was in Account DeCaigny has a B.A. degree in Dramatic Arts Management with the J. Walter Thompson from Macalester College in St. Paul, MN and advertising agency in New York, Los Angeles currently resides in San Francisco, CA. and Chicago. Pickett holds a Bachelor's degree in Advertising from the University of San Francisco Arts Commission Florida.

The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) San Francisco Travel Association was established by San Francisco’s City Charter in 1932. The agency is charged with SF Travel, founded in 1909, is San Francisco's overseeing the design quality of all new public official destination marketing organization infrastructure, stewarding the Cultural Equity with a mission to enhance the region's and Cultural Center Endowments (totaling economy by promoting San Francisco and over $6 million in annual grant investments) the Bay Area worldwide as the premier and implementing San Francisco’s '2% for destination for conventions, meetings, events Art’ public art ordinance. Additionally, the and leisure travel. With more than 1,500 SFAC manages San Francisco’s street artist members and an annual budget of $38 licensing program as well as oversees the million, the association is one of the largest capital management of four city-owned membership-based tourism promotion cultural centers, three public exhibition agencies in the country and employs a spaces and San Francisco’s Civic Art staff of 100, with offices in San Francisco, Collection, which includes over 3,500 objects Washington D.C., Chicago, New York and in worth an estimated $90 million. fourteen international markets.

Howard Pickett, Seoul Executive Vice President/Chief Jeong Hyup Marketing Officer (Thomas) Seo, San Francisco Travel Deputy Mayor of Association Cultural Affairs, Seoul Metropolitan Howard Pickett has Government (SMG) been Executive Vice President and Chief Jeong Hyup (Thomas) Marketing Officer of Seo majored the San Francisco Travel Association since in International October 2013. In his role he is responsible Economics and Policy for marketing San Francisco as a world- at Seoul National University, and studied class convention and leisure destination Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy with oversight of all global marketing efforts School. As a government official, he has 25 related to the San Francisco Travel brand years’ work experience in Design & Tourism, and its five core audiences (visitors, meeting 34 including his time as Director-General of Hyosun Seung, Tourism Policy, and Director-General of Officer, Cultural Public Communications Bureau of Seoul Policy Division, Metropolitan Government. Currently he is the Culture Deputy Mayor of Cultural Affairs, supervising Headquarters, Seoul the planning of the city’s cultural policy and Metropolitan the construction of cultural infrastructure. Government (SMG)

Young Kwan Suh, Hyosun Seung is Director, Cultural currently working Policy Division, in the Cultural Seoul Metropolitan Policy Division, Culture Headquarters of Government (SMG) Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG). She has 24 years’ work experience as a Young Kwan Suh government official in the Office of Planning & majored in law at Administration, Seoul Museum of Art, and the Seoul National Bureau of Culture. Since 2016, she has been University, and studied in charge of establishing action plans for Urban Administration ‘Seoul Culture Vision 2030’, drawing up the at Duke University and Indiana University in plan for the promotion of culture in daily life, the US. He has 24 years’ work experience as and the ordinance of the Cultural City. a government official, including his time as the Director of the Finance Division and World Culture Headquarters, Seoul Metropolitan Design Capital (2008), Seoul Metropolitan Government Government. Currently he is the Director of the Cultural Policy Division. The Culture Headquarter of Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) is Eun Ju Lee, Team responsible for the policies regarding Leader, Cultural culture & art, design, museum, library, Policy Division, and heritages. In cooperation with several Culture affiliated organizations (Seoul Foundation for Headquarters, Seoul Art & Culture, the Sejong Center, the Seoul Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra, and others), SMG’s Government (SMG) Culture Headquarter works to expand daily access to cultural and creative activities for Eun Ju Lee majored all of the city’s citizens. SMG has the ‘vision in Taxation and Public 2030’ will be Administration at the where everybody can be the creator of their University of Seoul. She studied for a Master’s own culture, in addition to enjoying the even degree in Administration at the University of access to the culture without any constraint of Science and Technology of China. Lee started time, region, or money. SMG strives to make her career at SMG as Team Leader of Tourism Seoul a city of culture that everyone would Business Division and has 24 years’ work like to visit and live in. experience. Currently, as Team Leader of the Cultural Policy Division, she manages the long-term culture policy of Seoul.

35 Chulhwan Joo, CEO, most famous Korean traditional percussion Seoul Foundation for troupe, and for Moochon, the theatre Arts and Culture company. Hae-Bo holds a Ph.D in Sociology from University of Seoul. He also studied Chulhwan Joo holds Arts Management at Chugye University of a Ph.D. in Korean the Arts and physics at POSTECH. He is Language and keen to exchange and learn more about the Literature. He has “legitimacy of cultural policy”, “trade of culture versatile creative skills in cultural capitalism”, “future of culture as and experience as algorithm”, “change of public policy in the a music composer, view of the neo-institutionalism” and “future writer, educator, and TV program director. of science and human society”.

Joo has produced a program that looks at Mijin Nam, Manager youth culture, which has won great popularity of Research & and prestigious awards. He has been Development Team, recognized as one of the most distinguished Seoul Foundation for producer/directors. He has also become one Arts and Culture of the few TV program directors in Korea whose name is widely known among viewers. Mijin Nam has been working for In 2007, Joo became the first CEO of OBS SFAC since its Gyeong-in broadcasting corporation and in establishment 2010, he led the launch of JTBC, recently the in 2004, in the most remarkable broadcasting corporation in departments of Seoul Arts & Culture Korea. Joo taught at Ewha Woman’s University Education Center, arts education and since 2000 and in the Department of Cultural planning & coordination and more. Before and Contents of Ajou University since 2014. joining SFAC, she worked for the Korea He has also authored 15 books and released National University of Arts as a program 2 music albums as a singer-song writer. coordinator of dance performances and KNUA Dance Company. She holds a Ph.D Hae-Bo Kim, in Education from Kyunghee University and Director, she also studied Arts Management at Korea Management and National University of Arts. She is eager to Planning Division, learn and share more about cultural diversity, Seoul Foundation for multicultural education, social cohesion Arts and Culture and bonding through arts education and community arts, and social integration in the Hae-Bo Kim has been pre- and post- unification of Koreas. working at SFAC since 2004, dealing Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture with research and policy development, supporting the arts, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture was Seoul Art Spaces, Seoul Theater Center, established in 2004 to enhance the quality festival production and more. Before joining of life of Seoul’s citizens, and increase the SFAC, Hae-Bo worked for the Korea Science city’s competitiveness, by deeply instilling Foundation dealing with science promotion culture and the arts in the daily life of the programs, especially Sci-Art projects. He also local population. To accomplish its mission, worked for SamulNori Hannullim, one of the the foundation carries out various initiatives

36 of arts support program, culture & arts Shanghai Theatre Academy education, public-arts projects & festivals, and a cultural welfare program. It also operates Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA) is a cultural facilities such as Seoul Art Spaces, comprehensive university of performing Namsan Arts Center and Seoul Theater arts, with the focus on theatre training and Center. studies and a history of almost 70 years. Co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of China and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government, and reporting to the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, STA is one Shanghai of the best art institutions of higher education in China and has cultivated thousands of Marina Guo, Founder artists in various professional fields nationally & President, Huashan and internationally. Meanwhile, the academy Multiversity; has also cultivated a large number of talents Rotating Chair, China for cultural management, who are now Innovation Service working in important posts in art institutions Alliance for Culture & home and abroad, as well as in related Technology; Vice government agencies. Director, John Howkins Research Shenzhen Center on Creative Economy, Shanghai Fengliang Li, Vice- Theatre Academy Chairperson, University Council, Dr . Marina Guo is a cultural entrepreneur, Southern University academic and strategist based in Shanghai of Science and China. She is the founder & President of Technology, Huashan Multiversity which is a national Shenzhen; Dean, initiative on cultural leadership and talent Institute for Cultural development for cultural professionals Industries and and executives. Meanwhile, Marina serves Director, National as the Rotating Chair for China Innovation Research Center for Service Alliance for Culture & Technology. Cultural Innovation, Shenzhen University She is guest faculty at Berlin School of Creative Leadership and is sitting on the Professor Fengliang Li is supported by the Board of Director, American Institute of “Ten Thousand Plan”, the National High Level Performing Arts. She was the former Head Talents Special Support Plan and won the of Arts Management at Shanghai Theatre “Shenzhen Outstanding Talent Award” in Academy. Marina is the author of Creative 2015. He holds concurrent posts of Deputy Transformation (China Economic Press 2011) Director of Committee of Experts for China studying the potential of the creative economy Association of Trade in Services, member in China, and the translator of How Creativity of Committee of Experts for China Cultural is Changing China (Wuwei Li, Bloomsbury Industry Cooperative, and Vice Chairman of 2011). Marina was recognized as a future Cross-Strait Cultural & Creative Industries leader by the Australian government when she Research Alliance. received the Australian Endeavour Award. She won the most competitive Creative Leaders Specializing in literary and arts theories, Award at China Creative Industries Award cultural and creative industries and urban in 2011. Marina holds Ph.D. in Economics, culture studies, he has been in charge of Master of Arts and bachelor in International over 10 projects at national, provincial and Business. She was a visiting scholar at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

37 ministerial level, with over 20 published books, Institute for Cultural Industries, over 100 academic papers and 200 cultural Shenzhen University reviews to his credit. He was a visiting scholar at University of Southern California (2007- Established in May 2009, the Institute for 2008). Cultural Industries (SICI) is the first multidisciplinary research institution of Shenzhen Wen Wen, Lecturer University (SZU) and a key research base and Director, Project of Humanities and Social Sciences in Development Guangdong Province. Since 2013, it includes Department, Institute the National Research Centre for Cultural for Cultural Innovation in Shenzhen University. The Industries, Shenzhen main research areas of SICI include: new University forms of cultural industries (CI), regional CI development and CI policy & IPR. The mission Dr Wen Wen's main is to ‘vigorously engage in CI research, build research interests a platform for academic-industry exchanges, include the creative and serve local economic growth’ not only in economy and maker culture. She is the chief Shenzhen, but also in other parts of China. It researcher of National Social Science Grant is credited as one of the top three CI research China project “The Development of Maker centres in China. Culture in Constructing Innovative Cities in China” (2015-2018) and Guangdong SICI has conducted over 30 research Provincial ‘Twelfth Five-year’ Plan Programs projects granted by National Social on Philosophy and Social Science project “The Science Foundation (China), Ministry of Urban Creative Scenes” (2015-2017). Her Education, and Ministry of Culture, and work has been published in the International over 50 projects commissioned by local Journal of Cultural Studies, Cultural Science governments and cultural companies. Journal and the International Journal of Since 2012 it has organized an annual Cultural and Creative Industries. She is the Cultural and Technological Innovation co-author of Creative Economy and Culture: Symposium, on which the Bluebooks of Challenges, Changes and Futures for the Culture and Technology are based. It has also Creative Industries (Sage, 2015). sponsored the activities of China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (SZU Han Han, Deputy- Venue) since 2008. Director of Information and SICI is dedicated to strengthen the Publishing international cooperation and has established Department, Institute strategic partnership with Queensland for Cultural Industries, University of Technology, Curtin University, Shenzhen University WCCF and KEA European Affairs.

Associate Professor Han Han has worked in Chinese Academic of Sciences (Postdoctoral & Associate Professor) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US (Visiting scholar), and has published 16 books (in Chinese or English) in the field of literature.

38 Shilei Liu, Vice Culture Exchanges is the SHENZHEN Design President, Shenzhen Award for Young Talents (SZ·DAY). It is the first International Cultural design award of its kind, which was initiated Exchange by the UNESCO Creative Cities Network Association and is co-organized by Shenzhen Municipal Government and Shenzhen Creative Culture Shilei Liu is engaged Center. The award is designed to reward in the management young, talented designers who live in cities of cultural affairs, within the network and is held biennially. including establishing regional brands for Singapore culture and sports, fostering regional cultural products, promoting the development of Iris Chen, Assistant cultural and creative industries clusters, and Manager, Arts and enriching public cultural service in the urban Heritage Division, district. She has also devoted herself to the Ministry of Culture, promotion of Shenzhen’s cultural image and Community and international cultural exchange. Youth

Xingjia Xu, Deputy Iris is currently in Secretary-in- the team overseeing General, Shenzhen Performing, Visual and International Literary Arts at MCCY, Cultural Exchange which looks into formulating arts policies for Association Singapore through working closely with arts and related agencies, the arts community and Xingjia Xu has other stakeholders. Prior to MCCY, Iris helmed participated in portfolios in community engagement at the establishing the National Arts Council, managing strategic Shenzhen-Hong Kong partnerships with community partners and and Shenzhen-Taiwan art exchange platforms, curating arts programmes to promote active and is working on initiating a Film&TV citizenry and participation in the arts. With Enterprise Alliance. He has been exploring varied experiences both in the Ministry and the production, investment and stimulation the Council, Iris is able to contribute and mechanism for art and literature, established share her perspectives on policy formulation an artist studio mechanism, and encouraged and implementation in the arts, as well as the social forces to facilitate art production. impact of the arts on the cultural landscape in Singapore. Shenzhen Association for International Culture Exchanges Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth

The Shenzhen Association for International The Ministry of Culture, Community and Culture Exchanges is a non-profit social Youth (MCCY) seeks to inspire Singaporeans organization dedicated to develop cultural through the arts and sports, strengthen ties with other cities of the world. It aims to community bonds, and promote volunteerism enhance mutual understanding, promoting and philanthropy. Since its inception in cultural prosperity and stimulate social November 2012, MCCY has been actively development through friendly visits, art engaging the arts, heritage, sports, performances, design contests, exhibitions, community and youth sectors. The Ministry academic seminars and so on. One of the aims to bring into sharper focus the efforts to significant international contests supported build a more cohesive and vibrant society, and by the Shenzhen Association for International to deepen a sense of identity and belonging

39 to the nation. MCCY will work with its Michelle Yeoh, stakeholders to create an environment where Manager Singaporeans can pursue their aspirations (Community for a better quality of life and together, build a Engagement & gracious and caring society we are proud to Partnerships), call home. Engagement & Participation, National Arts Council, Singapore

After a stint in the Sin Nah Tan, Deputy non-profit sector, Michelle joined the National Director (Community Arts Council in 2014. Michelle is part of the Engagement & Community Engagement & Partnerships Partnerships), team that is responsible for driving the Arts Engagement & and Culture Nodes initiative and overseeing Participation, strategic partnerships with various National Arts community partners. She also plays a key role Council, Singapore in curating and programming for the twice- yearly Arts in Your Neighbourhood festival, Sin Nah Tan is the working with both local and international Deputy Director of artists and arts groups to curate meaningful Community Engagement and Partnerships programmes for the community. at the National Arts Council overseeing the Arts and Culture Nodes partnership network National Arts Council and various strategic arts partnerships with community partners and agencies. She The National Arts Council champions the arts also oversees the twice-yearly Arts in Your in Singapore. By nurturing creative excellence Neighbourhood season which aims to provide and supporting broad audience engagement, enriching arts experiences to the community we want to develop Singapore as a distinctive and the annual Silver Arts Festival which global city where the arts inspire our collaborates with artists, arts organisations people and connect our communities. We and community partners to integrate the preserve our rich, cultural traditions while we arts into the lifestyles of seniors through cultivate accomplished artists and vibrant performances, workshops and activities. companies for the future. Our support for She has previously helmed portfolios in the arts is comprehensive – from grants the Council. This included overseeing and partnerships to industry facilitation and the development of the performing arts arts housing. The Council welcomes greater sector, which entailed the formulation and private and corporate giving to and through implementation of strategic initiatives and the arts so that together we can make the arts policies, administration of financial assistance an integral part of everyone's lives. tools and support to arts companies and artists, as well as promotion of artists, companies and their works both locally and overseas. She was also involved in the Singapore en France Festivals in 2010 and 2015 as well as various ASEAN projects and arts and cultural exchanges with international partners.

40 Stockholm Robert Olsson, Managing Director of Roger Mogert, Vice Cultural Affairs, Mayor, City Planning Culture and Culture, City of Administration, City Stockholm of Stockholm

Mogert’s portfolio Since March 2016, includes the Olsson has been chairmanship of Head of the Culture Stockholm City Administration, Theatre and Film which spans a wide range of public culture Region Stockholm- institutions: the Stockholm City Library, the Mälardalen. In a time when Stockholm is one Stockholm School of the Arts, Liljevalchs Art of the fastest growing cities in Europe, Mogert Gallery, Stockholm Art, the Stockholm City is also the Chairman of the Culture Committee Museum, the Medieval Museum, Stockholmia as well as the City Planning Committee. Publishing House, the Events Department and Mogert’s two areas of responsibility meet in the Cultural Strategy Staff. Olsson is trained in the ambition that not only do buildings have archaeology and spent nine years as Director to be built – the development of the city General of the National Maritime Museums in demands that its social content grows at the Sweden, among them the Vasa Museum. same pace. Culture is an essential component of a living city. Stockholm will continue to offer Patrik Liljegren, a rich cultural life characterised by high quality Deputy Managing and good living conditions. Roger Mogert has Director of Cultural had a long and impressive political career and Affairs and Chief of previously held the positions of Vice Mayor for the Cultural Strategy Real Estate, Streets and Traffic as well as Vice Staff, Culture Mayor for Culture. Administration, City of Stockholm David Jonsson, Political Advisor, Patrik Liljegren assist City Planning and the Managing Director, Culture, City of and is responsible for strategic positioning Stockholm and planning.

Jonsson previously He is chief of the Cultural Strategy Staff at held a variety of the Culture Administration and leads the positions in culture development of the public funding system management in for Stockholm institutions. The funding general and in library portfolio covers sectors such as theatre, leadership specifically, both in Stockholm music, art, film, dance, adult education and and in the cities of Malmö and Helsingborg public facilities. Liljegren has developed key in the south of Sweden. David has also strategies for Stockholm with the ambition been involved in the Bill & Melinda Gates of making it a leading cultural city. One of Foundation’s Global Libraries program his main focuses is integrating the culture that works to support the transformation sector into the development plans of this of libraries as engines of development fast growing city. Liljegren has for more than worldwide. David’s role today is mainly to ten years held executive positions within provide support and advice to Vice Mayor art institutions – for example as Artistic and Roger Mogert and the City Hall regarding Executive Manager at Södra Teatern, a venue culture policy. David has a master’s degree for international music and debate in the from Lund University.

41 centre of Stockholm. Liljegren holds a degree She is a founding member of the Institute for from the Chaospilot University in Denmark, Creative Health, the organisation that led the and has also studied International Politics development of the National Framework for and Relations at Gothenburg University and Arts and Health endorsed in November 2013 French at Sorbonne, Paris. by Ministers of Health and Ministers of the Arts in every Australian state and territory. The Culture Administration and the Cultural Strategy Staff Bridget Smyth, Design Director, The Culture Administration works on behalf of City of Sydney the Cultural Committee and includes the City Library and about 40 neighbourhood libraries, For the past 26 years the Stockholm School of the Arts, Liljevalchs Bridget Smyth has Art Gallery, Stockholm Art, the Stockholm City pursued a career Museum, the Medieval Museum, Stockholmia in urban design/ Publishing House, the Events Department and architecture on major the Cultural Strategy Staff. In 2016 the Culture public domain and Administration’s budget amounted to € 93 infrastructure projects million. The Cultural Strategy Staff supports in Australia and the USA. independent professional culture, culture associations, artist studios and scholarships, Joining the City of Sydney in 2001, Bridget adult education and community centers. Its is the Design Director and manages a range budget was € 24 million in 2016. of urban design, strategic and special projects, including the development and implementation of the Sustainable Sydney 2030 vision.

Prior to this role, Bridget was Director Design Sydney (1996-2001) for the Sydney 2000 Olympics and from 1990-1996 she was Senior Urban Lisa Colley, Manager Designer on the Central Artery Tunnel Project Cultural Strategy, (the ‘Big Dig”(US$14.5 billion) in Boston, City of Sydney Massachusetts USA.

Prior to starting at Bridget holds a Masters Degree in Design the City in February (Urban Design) from the Graduate School of 2016 Lisa was Design, Harvard University and a Bachelor the Director of the of Architecture (Hons) and a Bachelor of Creative Industries Planning and Design from the University of Innovation Centre, an Melbourne. Australian Government funded program supporting the business Bridget is the recipient of numerous awards of creative enterprise. Her previous roles including the 2016 AIA President’s Award, include Director Exhibitions and Events at the the 2014 AIA Marion Mahoney Griffin Award. University of Technology Sydney, Manager Bridget is an adjunct professor at the New Media Arts Board and Executive Director UNSW Faculty of the Built Environment and Communications Policy and Research at the University Technology Sydney. Australia Council for the Arts.

42 The City of Sydney in a film company, public officer in performing arts department in Yilan County, and The City of Sydney is the local government secretary-general in Yilan County Langyang authority responsible for the central business Museum. district and 30 surrounding suburbs within the LGA boundaries. Sydney has one of Previously Jiang organised a number of Australia's most ethnically diverse populations big cultural activities and events, such as – more than half of Sydney's residents were the performance in International Children’s born overseas and more than 40% speak a Folklore and Folkgame Festival, Yilan, the language other than English. opening performance of Luodong Cultural Factory, the Four-Season Music Festival at The City's 10 councillors are elected for a Yilan County Langyang Museum, Taipei Jazz 4-year term by residents and ratepayers Festival, the Torch Relay of Taipei 2017 and (business and property owners) and the Lord Summer Universiade. Mayor is popularly elected. Jiang was selected by Ministry of Culture, The City provides services for more than Taiwan and Bureau Français de Taipei to 200,000 residents and 20,000 businesses. conduct a survey of policy and venues in On any given day, the local population swells performing arts both in central and local to more than 1 million with people commuting, governments in France. doing business, shopping, playing, studying, or here to see the sights of Sydney. Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government Sydney’s cultural life emerges directly from our residents, workers and visitors from our After years of deliberations and meetings over First Nations peoples to those who have the terms of three mayors, the Department more recently arrived in our city. Sydney’s of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government cultural life is of national importance as NSW was established on November 6, 1999 as the has the largest concentration of the creative Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taipei. As the first workforce (40%) with 80% of those workers local-level cultural organization in Taiwan, it based in Sydney. holds a significant place in Taiwan history.

Since its inception, the Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government has brought significant issues regarding cultural Taipei policy to the public’s attention, and has been instrumental in presenting numerous public Meng Fang Jiang, events to enhance the city’s cultural life. Sub-Division Chief, Cultural and Creative Development Division, Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government

Jiang holds a MA in Anthropology from the National Taiwan University and a MA in Arts Administration, from the University of New Orleans, USA. With more than 15-years work experience in the cultural industry both in private and public sectors, Jiang has experience as a public relations practitioner 43 Ann Yang, Deputy Tokyo CEO, Taipei Culture Foundation Yuko Ishiwata, Olympic and Ann is a well Paralympic Cultural recognized veteran Strategy Director, with over 30 years Planning experience in the Department, Arts advertising field. She Council Tokyo has had a successful track record in Batey’s Yuko Ishiwata Advertising before joining Dentsu Aegis has served as the Network (DAN) Taiwan. Program Director of Arts Council Tokyo since the organization’s Ann, had also grown DAN Taiwan in becoming establishment in 2012. In this role, she has an integrated media group that offers launched grant programs to support artists exceptional integrated communication and the creative sector, research projects to services to clients and further established boost the quality of cultural environments DAN Taiwan as a top differentiators among in Tokyo, and pilot programs to foster young others. talent in the fields of production and arts management. A diligent learners, Ann is active in many market seminars and committees. She had Before joining Arts Council Tokyo, she was been selected awarded “2012 Media Agency active in cultural policy making, culture Head of the Year”, “100 MVP Manager”, and promotion programs of local governments, “2005 Creative Agency Head of the Year”. and evaluation systems of art programs. She Currently Ann is the Deputy CEO of Taipei used to work in advertising agency, Dentsu Culture Foundation. Inc., for ten years, managing market trend analysis, marketing and consumer insight, Taipei Culture Foundation and estimating advertisement budgets of Japanese companies. Established in June 1985, the Taipei Culture Foundation is a non-profit organization Haruhisa Sunami, supported by a combination of public and Olympic and private sector funding; the foundation’s Paralympic Cultural mission is to promote sustainable artistic and Strategy Manager, cultural development in Taipei, with a mandate Planning to focus on the public nature of cultural Department, Arts activities, and public accessibility. Council Tokyo

Since restructuring in 2007, the foundation After graduation from has been increasingly active in promoting Osaka University itself as a hub of cultural life in Taipei. This of Foreign Studies, marked an important transition in policy, Haruhisa Sumani has been continually allowing the city’s arts festivals and cultural engaged in international communication centers to be overseen by a single body, and and exchange of arts and culture. Before more importantly, to be seen as a series of joining Arts Council Tokyo, he used to work interconnected activities and spaces. at the Japan Foundation (JF), a Japanese governmental organization for international cultural exchange, residing in Italy, as Secretary General of the Japan Cultural Institute in Rome. He also worked for Japan

44 Foundation for Regional Art-Activities (JAFRA), Arts Council Tokyo which supports local governments and public cultural institutes all over Japan, providing With a proposal from the Tokyo Council for finance assistance through various grant the Arts, the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation programs and promoting regional community for History and Culture established Arts programs through collaboration between Council Tokyo in November 2012, Japan’s first artists, art producers and coordinators internationally acknowledged arts council. nationwide. He is currently in charge of the Its programs subsidize and support the Tokyo Cultural Program in the Run-up to artistic and cultural activities that form the 2020. core of the Council’s mission. In addition to the Arts Council Tokyo Grant Program, it has Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, launched several pilot programs, such as “Arts Board Member, Arts Academy” which cultivates talented youth Council Tokyo; who plan to embark on careers in production, Director of the arts management, or at public institutions. Center for Arts and The Traditional Performing Arts program Culture, NLI Research showcases the fascination of traditional Institute arts and the dynamism of new creative innovations. Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto began his career as Furthermore, Arts Council Tokyo carries out an architect in 1981, major cultural projects to prepare for the after studying urban planning at the Graduate 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in School of Waseda University. He became a Tokyo. consultant and researcher in cultural fields in 1985 and studied arts administration at Columbia University in 1997. Since 1985, he has been engaged in international studies on cultural policy, research on the management and evaluation of cultural organizations, Toronto master planning for cultural institutions and consultation for public art projects. Mr. Sally Han, Manager, Yoshimoto is also the editorial supervisor of Cultural Partnerships, ‘Creative City of EU and Japan’. He is currently Economic Director of the Center for Arts and Culture Development and at NLI Research Institute, a member of the Culture, City National Cultural Policy Committee, Chair of Toronto of the Yokohama Creative City Development Committee, a board member of the Sally Han leads the Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, portfolio of Toronto's Japan, and a board member of Art NPO Link. cultural grants programs, public In 2014, Mr. Yoshimoto was appointed to be art, cultural policy and research, the Toronto a member of Tokyo Council for the Arts and Book Awards, the Poet Laureate and Photo Culture as well as Chairman of the Council’s Laureate programs, and space provision Committee for Cultural Program of Tokyo through below market rent leases and support 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. for infrastructure development. Sally was project lead on Creative Capital Gains, the City's cultural action plan. She also served 8 years with the federal government at the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canada Council for the Arts managing program delivery and special projects. Prior to public

45 service, Sally spent 20 years producing and funders, and neighbourhood organizations directing professional theatre, radio for CBC, has created opportunities for artists and and television for Corus Entertainment. She cultural producers to develop, grow and thrive currently serves on the board of the Wuchien in areas of the city previously underserved. Michael Than Foundation and volunteers for Lila received her B.A.A. in photographic arts a variety of community organizations. She is a from Ryerson University, her work has been graduate of the University of Toronto. exhibited in Toronto, and she regularly serves on visual arts juries. City of Toronto, Economic Development & Culture North York Arts

EDC's mission is "making Toronto a place where North York Arts is a charitable business and culture thrive". Cultural services multidisciplinary arts service organization provides support to the non-profit arts sector, the designed to address the needs and interests entertainment industry, museums and heritage of Toronto artists, arts organizations and sectors, and creative entrepreneurs. EDC directly residents. North York Arts is working in operates 10 museums, produces events and collaboration with Toronto City Councillors, community programs, and commissions public the City’s Culture Division and various art. However, the majority of cultural development community partners to foster arts is advanced through funding, partnerships, policy programming, provide art services to the and planning, where the City has influence. EDC region and bridge connections in the art and is currently developing a strategic plan that better culture community. integrates culture with economic development to promote employment, inclusion, global investment, and civic and cultural participation.

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Lila Karim, Founding Dieter Boyer, Senior Executive Director, Advisor to the City North York Arts (NYA) Councillor and State Minister for Arts, NYA a charitable local Science and Sports arts organization of Vienna that provides multidisciplinary arts Dieter Boyer has been programming and the cultural political services to eleven city advisor to Andreas wards in Toronto. Prior Mailath-Pokorny – the to NYA, Lila worked for several non-profit arts City Councillor and State Minister for Arts, organizations including the Toronto Outdoor Science and Sports of the City of Vienna – Art Exhibition, ReelWorld Film Festival and since 2013. He supports the State Minister as The Harold Greenberg Fund. She has 17 years a key initiator and negotiator in the field of live experience in Toronto’s cultural sector as an performing arts, music and literature, dealing artistic producer and digital photographer, with public institutions as well as with private programmer and administrator. Partnering and partners and organizations. Before joining developing a community of artists, musicians, the City of Vienna, he worked as an artistic curators, has resulted in over 500,000 director and curator in performing arts. This audience attendees to events and programs gives him a first-hand knowledge of the Lila has produced. Engagement with business, opportunities and challenges in the arts. He

46 serves as a board member for many cultural Communications of Adam Mickiewicz Institute. organisations such as theatres, orchestras He was also a Lecturer at the Aleksander and festivals in Vienna. Dieter Boyer teaches Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic at the University of Music and Performing Art in Warsaw. Arts Vienna in the Institute of Cultural Management. He has Masters degrees in He is an expert in communications Cultural Management and in Intercultural management, brand building and culture Competencies. policy making. He is a member and co- founder of culture and art oriented social The Culture Administration and the Cultural movements: “ Citizens of Culture” (signatory Strategy Staff of the City of Vienna of the ‘Treaty for Culture’, signed in 2011 by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland) The Culture Departement of the City of and the “Independent Culture” movement. He Vienna includes Performing Arts, Music, Film is also a co-organizer of the Polish Culture and Cinema, Festivals, Visual Arts, Cultural Congress 2016 and Culture Future Forum Heritage, the City Archives and the City 2017. Library as well as the Museum of the Ciy of Vienna with about 20 outposts and the Vienna Robert Zydel, Symphonic Orchestra. Funding also covers Director of Marketing the field of Research and Higher Learning Department, City of and Cultural Education. The municipal culture Warsaw budget comes up to € 300 million, about the same amount is spent by the Federal Robert Zydel is Governement in the City of Vienna. The office responsible for New of the City Councillor for Culture, Science Media, Marketing and and Sports works out Cultural Strategies and Research and Analysis Guidelines, evaluates and establishes new departments; planning approaches in this area. and implementing information campaigns; delivery of BTL, ATL and integrated ad campaigns; marketing communication for various City Hall events, as well as media strategy and planning. He Warsaw designs research tools and methodology aimed at problem solving and challenges Tomasz Thun- faced by organisations. Janowski, Director, Department of He has over ten-years of teaching experience Culture, City of gained through running research seminars. Warsaw City of Warsaw Tomasz Thun-Janowski has been the Director The City of Warsaw is a local self-government of the Culture unit which executes public tasks of local Department of the City nature that fall under the responsibility of the of Warsaw since 2013. borough and county (two local administration He is a graduate of Nicolaus Copernicus levels), as well as tasks resulting from the University in Toruń and the University of capital character of the city. The city provides Warsaw in Polish literature, philosophy and public services, encompassing municipal and theatre studies. Professionally he has been social services, and it is also responsible for a theatrical producer and culture manager. satisfying the needs of the inhabitants in the He was the long-time Deputy Managing field of: education, health care, culture, social Director of TR Warszawa Theatre and Head of welfare, safety and public order.

47 As a self-government unit Warsaw creates Department of Cultural Affairs, City of the city’s development policy and has a wide Zurich range of legal tools and broad infrastructure to implement project’s results especially Cultural promotion is a central public task for in the field of revitalisation and economic the city government of Zurich, the largest city development. in Switzerland. It guarantees diversity, high quality and innovation, especially through The Culture Department of the City of the possibility of experiment, failure and Warsaw is designated by the Mayor to build new beginnings. The City of Zurich supports the cultural policy of the city, to cooperate culture with net expenditure supporting with national, regional and local cultural culture fluctuating between 1 and 1.5% of organisations, NGO’s and local communities, the total urban expenditure. The budget of the to support artists, and to realize CCI projects Department of Cultural Affairs is about 130 among others. The City also runs theatres, million euros. The department is under the local cultural centres, libraries, and other presidency of the city council. Its main tasks institutions. The City of Warsaw has significant are: experience with interregional cooperation through participation in various city networks • Promotion: the city of Zurich promotes as well as through various EU funded projects. cultural activities in the areas of theater, e-music, jazz/rock/pop, literature, fine arts, dance and film with production contributions and deficit guarantee. Around 9 million euros are available for this purpose. • Institutions: the City of Zurich supports unique and outstanding institutions. There Zurich are around 90 euros available for the subsidies of cultural institutions. Peter Haerle, • Own activities: the City of Zurich runs its Director, Department own institutions (a museum, a theater of Cultural Affairs, and a cinema) and organises its own City of Zurich festivals (among others the Zurich theater spectacle). Peter Haerle has been Director of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Zurich since 1 August 2010.

After studying history, political science and Spanish literature at the University of Zurich, Haerle worked as a journalist for various Swiss media, including Radio DRS and the Tages-Anzeiger, where he was a member of the editorial board. He then led an agency for communication and worked in the interface between politics, business and culture. Haerle is a member of the board of the Swiss City Conference Culture and involved in various working groups of national cultural policy.

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Milan

Filippo Del Corno, Deputy Mayor for Culture, Comune of Milan

Born in Milano in 1970, Filippo graduated in Composition in 1995.

His music has been performed by Luciano Berio, James MacMillan, David Alan Miller, Dimitri Ashkenazy, John Axelrod, Enrique Mazzola, Carlo Boccadoro, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, California EAR Unit, Almeida Opera, and in various festivals, theatres and concert halls including the South Bank Centre (London), Internationale MusikFestwochen (Luzern), Bang On A Can Marathon (New York), Konzerthaus (Berlin), Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, Teatro alla Scala, Biennale (Venezia).

His works have been recorded for different labels such as Cantaloupe, RaiTrade, BMG Ricordi, EMI Classics, Sensible Records, Stradivarius and Thymallus; his music is published by Rai Trade Edizioni Musicali, Ricordi, Suvini Zerboni and Sonzogno. From December 2011 to March 2013 he was the Chairman of the Board of Fondazione Milano. In March 2013 he was appointed Councillor for Culture of Milano.

49 World Cities Culture Forum Management Team

50 Paul Owens, Co- Culture and London Cultural Infrastructure founder and Director, Plan policy initiatives. Matthieu holds a MA BOP Consulting; in Urban Governance from the Institut des Director, World Cities Sciences Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Culture Forum and a BA in International Relations from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Paul is the director of the World Cities Martha Pym, Culture Forum, Programme Manager, supervising the World Cities Culture organization’s Forum ambitious future plans. Paul is also co-founder and Managing Director of BOP Consulting, Martha has joined the one of the UK’s leading consultancies on team to coordinate culture and the creative industries. He the programme for the leads on much of BOP's work in economic World Cities Culture development and the creative industries, with Forum and administer particular knowledge of skills and training, the Leadership entrepreneurship, cluster development and Exchange Programme. She has over ten years economic impact analysis. With his colleagues experience working in contemporary arts and at BOP, he has pioneered new ways of the cultural sector, ranging from the Institute understanding the cultural and creative of Contemporary Arts in London, Frieze economies of cities and regions and helped to London and New York, to the London Design design new policies and support structures to Biennale. Martha holds a Masters degree in foster culture and creativity. He leads BOP’s Urban Planning (MUP) from the Graduate international work, especially in China and School of Design, Harvard University and a BA Taiwan. He is a regular speaker and moderator in History from Cambridge University. at international conferences and workshops. Yvonne Lo, Research Matthieu Prin, City Manager, World Partnerships Cities Culture Forum; Manager, World Senior Researcher, Cities Culture Forum; BOP Consulting Consultant, BOP Consulting Yvonne is an experienced Matthieu has been researcher and works coordinating the World across BOP’s research Cities Culture Forum and evaluation since its inception. portfolio. At the World Cities Culture In this role, he oversees the relationship Forum, she manages research projects and with all city members and manages the coordinates activities with member cities. data collection for the World Cities Culture Her recent projects include a research for Report. He has been involved in a range of the UNESCO Global Report 2017 on the consultancy projects at BOP Consulting, most implementation of the “The Convention on the notably for the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, Shanghai Jing’an Cultural Expressions”, evaluation of the Asia- Municipal Government and Creative Scotland. Europe Foundation (ASEF) culture360 portal, He recently worked for the London Borough the evaluation of the BFI Film Academy, and of Islington to help them support their Arts a comparative study on the public finance Strategy, and for the Mayor of London’s Office for culture in 16 world cities, the World Cities to help them develop the London Borough of Culture Finance Report. Yvonne studied a

51 Master in Public Administration (International and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) Development) at the London School of at Newcastle University, and two years at Economics and Political Science and held a the University of Westminster undertaking BBA (First Class Honour) in Global Business research projects on the audio-visual sector. and Economics at the Hong Kong University He was elected a Fellow of the RSA in 2007 of Science and Technology. She also held the and is a member of the UK Evaluation Society. Fellowship of Trinity College London in Recital in Violin. BOP Consulting

James Doeser, Writer BOP Consulting specialises in culture and the and Editor, World creative industries. We built up our expertise Cities Culture Forum in the UK and we work across the world. We understand how culture enriches people’s As writer for the World lives; and how culture and the creative Cities Culture Forum, industries make economies competitive. James is responsible We are expert in measuring the social and for creating content economic value of both. Underpinning all for research reports, BOP projects is our commitment to robust policy handbooks, and evidence and sustainable delivery models. the WCCF website. BOP’s clients are governments, private James Doeser is a freelance researcher, writer businesses, cultural organisations and their and consultant based in London. His clients funders. We help them to write strategies and include universities, arts organisations and to plan for the future. We work with our clients policy-making agencies in the UK and beyond. to build new partnerships and to deliver new His work primarily involves the application projects. We help them to understand and of rigorous research methods to complex communicate the value of what they do. problems of policy and practice. Recent international and place-based projects include a study of soft power at the United Nations with King's College London and a report for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on the civic role of arts organisations.

Richard Naylor, Director, Research, BOP Consulting

Richard supervises all BOP’s major research projects, ensuring BOP’s methods are analytically rigorous and appropriate to the task in hand. His work has broken fresh intellectual ground in fields such as the development of frameworks for measuring the economic and social impacts of cultural activities. Richard has over twenty years of contract research experience in both consultancy and academia. Before joining BOP in 2002, Richard spent five years as Research Associate with the Centre for Urban

52 Kate D. Levin, guidance on topics ranging from non-profit Advisor, World Cities governance and capital project management Culture Forum and to land use and public art. Before DCLA, Principal, Bloomberg Tracey was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Associates Eastern District of New York, and served as (New York, NY) Deputy Chief of the Asset Forfeiture Unit. Prior to that, she was a litigation associate in private Kate D. Levin is a practice. Tracey earned a Juris Doctor from principal at Bloomberg Tulane Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in Associates, a English from The University of Virginia. philanthropic consulting firm created to collaborate with cities around the world on improving quality of life for their citizens. She also oversees the Arts Program at Bloomberg Philanthropies. Previously, Levin served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs from 2002- 2013. The inaugural fellow of the National Center for Arts Research (NCAR) at Southern Methodist University, she has taught at the City University of New York, worked for several arts organizations, and served in the New York City mayoral administration of Ed Koch.

Tracey Knuckles, Cultural Assets Management, Bloomberg Associates (New York, NY)

As a member of the Cultural Assets Management discipline, Tracey helps cities develop strategies for strengthening the creative sector, and optimizing its impact through economic development, cultural marketing and tourism initiatives, and other key civic projects. Prior to joining Bloomberg Associates, she served as Deputy Commissioner & General Counsel for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), the nation’s largest funder of the arts. At DCLA, Tracey managed the agency’s core operations and guided the agency through a host of strategic reforms and programmatic initiatives. A trusted advisor to the Commissioner, elected officials, and community stakeholders, she provided

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Miree Byun, Director Tim Jones, CEO of Global Future Artscape Research Center, The Seoul Institute (SI) Tim Jones is a champion for the role Miree Byun (Ph.D that the arts play in in Sociology) is a transforming cities Director of the Global and communities. and Future Research Under his direction Center at The Seoul since 1998, Artscape Institute. A graduate has grown from a of Seoul National University, her research Toronto-based artist studio provider to an area lies in Social changes, social policy and internationally recognized leader in creative urban monitoring for enhancing the quality placemaking. The term “creative placemaking” of citizen’s life. Her work focuses on the was coined by Tim in 2006 to describe the international comparative study of government practice of leveraging the power of arts policy for urban competitiveness. She stayed a and culture to act as a catalyst of change, year at National Center for Digital Government growth and transformation of place. Today, of the University of Massachusetts Amherst as city-builders around the world are employing a visiting scholar and is a committee member creative placemaking strategies to make cities of the Administrative Service of Seoul. more vibrant, prosperous, sustainable and liveable. Her publications include as follows, “Inequality in Seoul” (2016), “Happiness in Artscape’s work involves clustering creative Seoul” (2016), “Social Innovation and the Role people together in real estate projects to of the City” (2016), “Seoul Sociology”(2016), serve their interests while advancing multiple “Population Changes and Social Issues public policy agendas, private development in Seoul”(2015) “Social Integration and interests, community and neighbourhood Community Rebuilding Project in Seoul aspirations and philanthropic missions. In Metropolitan government”(2015), “Single Toronto, Tim has built an impressive portfolio Person Household and Urban Policy in Seoul” of arts centres that provide space to more (2015) than 2,300 people working and or living in Artscape properties, including 32 public The Seoul Institute (SI) venues serving more than 240,000 people annually. After playing mentor and coach to The Seoul Institute is the Think Tank for the organizations and governments in Canada Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) was and abroad for many years, Tim and Artscape established in 1992. Seoul Institute’s goal is are beginning to play an active development to establish a medium- to long-term vision for role in markets outside Toronto. In 2014, Tim Seoul and propose social policies on welfare, was recognized by the Geneva-based Schwab culture, education, as well as industries and Foundation as Social Entrepreneur of the Year. urban management policies on city planning, transportation, safety and the environment. Artscape SI’s primary objective is to improve municipal administration through professional research, Artscape is a not-for-profit urban development improve the quality of life in Seoul, and organization that makes space for creativity reinforce and sustain the competitiveness of and transforms communities. Artscape’s Seoul. work involves clustering creative people together in real estate projects that serve the needs of the arts and cultural community and advance multiple public policy objectives, private development interests, community and

55 neighbourhood aspirations and philanthropic include Curzon Cinemas, Somerset House, missions. Since its beginning in 1986, Black Country Living Museum, Manchester Artscape has become recognized as an Council. international leader in creative placemaking, a practice that leverages the power of art, Lucy holds a BSc in Environmental Science culture and creativity to catalyze change, and an MSc in Social and Political Theory. growth and transformation in communities. To-date, she has over 6 years of experience The organization achieves its mission through in sustainability and environmental developing and managing unique cultural management. facilities—including community cultural hubs, multi-purpose creative spaces and artist live/ Julie’s Bicycle work projects—and delivering programs and services that promote creativity and cultural Julie’s Bicycle is a London based charity space development. that supports the creative community to act on climate change and environmental sustainability. They believe that the creative community is uniquely placed to transform the conversation around climate change and translate it into action.

Julie’s Bicycle provides the creative Lucy Latham, community with the skills to act, using their Programme Lead, creativity to influence one another, audiences Julie’s Bicycle and the wider movement. They run a rich programme of events, free resources and Lucy works across public speaking engagements, which the Julie’s Bicycle contribute to national and international portfolio focusing climate change policy development. on environmental consultancy and Julie’s Bicycle supports the Paris Agreement certification, creative goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees programmes and Celsius by focusing on energy, the major policy development. Lucy works on the source of carbon emissions for the cultural strategic integration of environmental sector. More than 2,000 companies use the sustainability within artistic and cultural Creative Industry Green Tools, their suite of venues and activities, specialising in carbon calculators, and their certification governance, operational best practice, scheme, Creative Green, is the recognised engagement and cultural change. She benchmark for sustainability achievement also coordinates Julie’s Bicycle’s creative within the creative industries. campaigns and supports the development of its leadership and professional development programmes.

Working on the ERDF-funded Culture Change programme, Lucy provided environmental expertise to over 150 creative business in the East of England to support their organisational resilience; she has recently completed a consultancy partnership with England’s National Theatre, developing a new suite of documentation and approach to environmental leadership. Further clients

56 ChangHyun Lee, Hae-Seong Lee, Chairperson of Director of Theater Cultural Policy GORAE Committee, Seoul Foundation for Arts Hae-Seong Lee and Culture; is a director and Professor of playwright of Theater Kookmin University Company GORAE and is known for his works ChangHyun Lee “Red poem”, “Whale” received his Ph.D. in and “Flesh”. Lee’s work communication from Seoul National University is mainly about the pain of the disadvantaged in 1993. During the military regime in the and minorities. Last winter, he spent 108 days 1980s in South Korea, Lee participated in on the street of Gwagnghwamun Square as a cultural resistance movement within the Black Tent theater’s director. university, and since then he has continuously expressed interest in the role of media and Theater Company GORAE culture in social movements in South Korea. Since it was founded in 2010, the Theater As a tenured Professor at the Kookmin Company GORAE has continued to create University Lee has concentrated his works that ask questions about existence research objectives in applying media and through the relationship of violence, pain communication studies to social issues. and desire. It has more than 50 members. Additionally, Lee has served as a board GORAE’s preferred medium is drama, but member of the Korean Broadcasting System they do not only use this form and style, and to promote bilateral partisanship as a public have combined various forms such as chorus, organization. video, dance and traditional Korean music into their works. They have pursued the balance Lee was also appointed as the President of of matter and spirit through the 108 bows the Seoul Institute, the urban planning think of Buddhism and meditation, as an integral tank of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, method in their work. where Lee applied his communication expertise to various social issues. Lee has Clare Reddington, established new urban planning models of Creative Director, citizen participation to solve urban issues by Watershed opening opportunities for communication. Clare is the Creative In 2015, Lee created METTA, Megacity Think Director of Watershed, Thank Alliance among major cities such as a centre for cultural Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, and Ho Chi cinema and digital Minh City. Lee has organized the One Man creativity in Bristol, Demonstration Association with I’m Ok Sang, UK. Clare joined South Korea’s famous resistance artist. Lee Watershed in 2004 had established Social Curating Association and as Creative Director leads the Pervasive in the effort to solve social problems by Media Studio, Playable City, engagement interdisciplinary approach of social art and and cinema teams, working with industry, liberal studies. academic and creative partners from around the world to support talent and champion

57 new ideas. Clare is a Visiting Professor From 2009, he held the Seoul Design at University of the West of England and Olympics (2009-2010) and promoted the sits on the advisory boards of RCUK’s World Design Capital project. In 2012, he Digital Economy Theme, AHRC’s Digital researched service design projects, public Transformations Theme. She is Chair of Emma design projects for government offices, alley Rice’s theatre company Wise Children and a design projects, and incubating programs board member of RSC and Theatre Bristol. for social enterprise. From 2013 to 2015, he planned and operated design culture projects Watershed at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP). Since 2017, he has been working as the Watershed is a social enterprise and a Director of the Seoul Upcycling Plaza. registered charity. As the leading film culture and digital media centre in the South West, Seoul Upcycling Plaza (SUP) they advance education, skills, appreciation and understanding of the arts. Upcycling promotes resource circulation by adding new value to a discarded product Watershed develops cultural engagement, through its design. The Seoul Upcycling Plaza imagination and talent, in the belief that the (SUP), which opened in 2017, is where citizens route to better futures is open, disruptive can participate in ‘the healthy circulation and co-produced. With their audiences and of measured production, collaborative participation at the heart of their organisation distribution, and rational consumption’ they produce and present original ideas and experienced in their daily lives. Through content and curate a diverse programme of various educational programs, the SUP talent development, cinema exhibition, events aims to encourage citizens to make positive and festivals. lifestyle changes. SUP is run by the Seoul Design Foundation, an institution sponsored YOON Dayyoung, by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, Director, Seoul which has contributed to enhancing the Upcycling Plaza competitiveness of Seoul by pursuing various projects aimed at leading design innovation YOON Dayyoung and design culture as well as operating the studied History at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP). Yonsei University and received his master’s degree in International Design Management from the Helsinki School of Economics, Finland. He received his Ph.D in Design Studies from Konkuk University as a researcher on Chinese design policy. He has organized international exhibitions and seminars for ICSID 2001 Seoul, Icograda 2000 Seoul and DESIGN KOREA 2003 ~ 2008.

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In-Souk CHO, Architect “Changdeokgung Palace Tour”

Architect In-Souk CHO is Principal of DaaRee Architect & Associates and the International Director of Union Internationale des Architectes(UIA) Work Program “Architectural Heritage”. As one of the most prestigious architects, she has endeavored to introduce the meanings and characteristics of Palace Architecture and Royal Garden of Joseon Dynasty both within Korea and overseas.

Sun CHOI “Project Butterflies”

Sun CHOI is an artist and member of Cultural Committed of SFAC. His works have continuously questioned the conventional definitions of art and search for value beyond materiality. is completed by people breathing ‘breath’ on the ink sprayed on the canvas.

2nd Moon with Youngyeol KO “Pansori Chunhyangga”

Seoul Donhwamun Theatre “Song of Dewdrops”

The Gwangdae “Spin, Jump, Fly”

Urban Play “Everyday Seoul, Levels Everyday”

61 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Seung Hwan Seong, Assistant Manager, Culture (SFAC) Research & Development Team

Chulhwan Joo, CEO Seung Hwan Seong is an Assistant Manager within the Reseach & Development team, Hae-Bo Kim, Director, Management and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (SFAC). Planning Division Currently he is working on the Cultural Policy of SFAC and local cultural and global Mijin Nam, Manager, Research & networks. Before joining SFAC, he worked at Development Team the Hope Institute and Jeonju International Film Festival. Eun-Hee Park, Assistant Manager, Research & Development Team So-Jeong Shin, Research & Development Team Eun-Hee Park is an Assistant Manager within the Research & Development team, Seoul So-Jeong Shin attained her M.F.A degree Foundation for Arts and Culture (SFAC). She from the Dongguk University of Art Film. researches citizen’s cultural engagement Her short films were screened at a number and cultural index in Seoul. Eun-Hee also has of international film festivals in Korea and experience in planning performing arts and overseas. She joined the Research and managing arts spaces. Development Team of Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture this year. She is in charge of Seoul’s World Cities Culture Summit event operations.

62 Seongwon Cho, Project Manager, Research & Development Team

Seongwon Cho joined SFAC as the project manager of the World Cities Culture Summit Seoul. Since 2006, she has worked in the performing arts scene as an international producer at a number of organisations including: World Music Group Dulsori, LIG Art Hall, Asian Culture Center Theatre(Gwangju), and Korean Culture Center in Kazakhstan. She is interested in Audience Development and cognitive psychology.

63 Governance and Operation

64 Governance and Leadership

The World Cities Culture Forum operates as Event Advisory Committee an informal network. Tom DeCaigny, Director of Cultural Affairs at The network is convened by the Deputy Mayor City and County of San Francisco for Culture and Creative Industries, Greater London Authority, at the request of the Mayor Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Chairman, Specialist of London. Committee for Cultural Policy, Tokyo Council for the Arts/Director of Arts and Cultural Each year a member city is selected by Projects, NLI Research Institute the Chair to host the World Cities Culture Summit. At present this is done through Lori Martin, Senior Cultural Affairs Officer, correspondence between the host city and Cultural Services, City of Toronto the GLA. In the future the host city will be chosen through an open bidding process. Araf Ahmadali, Policy Advisor for Arts and Culture, City of Amsterdam The host city appoints a local organising committee, which works with the World Cities Patrik Liljegren, Managing Director of Cultural Culture Forum advisory group, to decide on Affairs and Chief of the Cultural Strategy Staff, the content of the Summit. Culture Administration, City of Stockholm

In 2016, the World Cities Culture Forum Research Advisory Committee set up two advisory committees in order to involve members in co-designing its Hae-Bo Kim, Director of Management and programme and research. There is an Planning Division, Seoul Foundation for Arts Event Advisory Committee and a Research and Culture Advisory Committee with five different cities represented on each committee. Odile Soulard and Carine Camors, Urban Economists, IAU Paris Ile-de-France Advisors are expected to propose ideas for: events, research programme, key messages Prof. Changyong Huang, President, Shanghai for WCCF, the future agenda, and offer Theatre Academy; Director, Metropolitan Culture feedback on short planning documents Audit Centre and key WCCF documents (e.g. publication prospectus, event programme). Maria Privalova, Director, Nekrasov Central Library Advisors will participate in four phone sessions per year with WCCF organisers, Alina Bogatkova, First Deputy Director, committee discussions (via email or online Nekrasov Central Library group messaging) as necessary to respond to urgent issues and one committee meeting per Bronwyn Mauldin, Director of Research year during the summit. and Evaluation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission The Advisory Committees include the following city delegates:

65 Operation and Funding

The activities of the World Cities Culture Forum are organised and delivered by BOP Consulting, a specialist consulting firm, on behalf of the GLA and the members of the Forum.

BOP Consulting has a contract with the GLA to this effect. The members of the Forum individually pay a fee directly to BOP to cover the costs of organising activities and undertaking research.

As well as this basic fee, individual member cities raise funds or pledge in-kind resources from internal and external sources to support the activities of the Forum.

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Beyond the Creative City: new civic agendas for citizens and by citizens Policy Brieﬁng 6: Seoul Summit 2017