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SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES | KEYNOTE SPEAKERS | Jim Broughton | Head of International Engagement | The Natural History Jim Broughton is responsible for the Natural History Museum’s international diplomacy, partnerships and global business activities – including its touring exhibitions program, its publishing, picture library, and the renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Jim trained as a designer and has a background in exhibition development and museum master-planning, chiefly working within international collaborations. He has worked previously at the British Museum, at Historic Scotland and in consultancy, with much of his career spent on large partnership projects in Asia. Jim is Vice Chair of ICOM UK. Email: [email protected] John A. Giurini | Assistant Director for Public Affairs | The J. Paul Getty Museum John Giurini joined the Getty in January 2005 as Assistant Director in the Communications department of the J. Paul Getty Trust. In November 2007, he became head of public affairs for the J. Paul Getty Museum. In this capacity, he oversees all communications efforts for the Museum’s two Los Angeles locations, which includes media relations, marketing and branding, strategic planning and community relations, as well as donor relations. John is also a member of the Museum’s senior management team. Prior to joining the Getty, John ran his own public relations consulting practice specializing in consumer products, travel and tourism, retail, and non-profit organizations. Email: [email protected] Francesco Manacorda | Artistic Director | Tate Liverpool Francesco Manacorda is the Artistic Director of Tate Liverpool, where he conceives and executes the public programs. Before joining Tate Liverpool, Francesco has served as Director of Artissima in Turin, curator of the Barbican Gallery in London, and Visiting Lecturer in Exhibition History and Critical Theory at Royal College of Art, London. Francesco has curated numerous group shows including, as well as solo exhibitions with artists such as Clemens Von Wedemeyer, Hans Schabus and Tobias Putrih. He has curated the Slovenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2007 and the New Zealand Pavilion in 2009. He is also a writer, having contributed reviews and features extensively to many publications including Domus, Flash Art International and Art Review. Email: [email protected] Rosemarie Reyes | Partner | Roseworks Marketing Rosemarie Reyes has worked tourism with tour wholesalers in New York and France. In 2002, she started Roseworks Marketing, a strategic communications and marketing consulting firm specializing in tourism and entertainment. Her many clients include Broadway/West End shows such as Mamma Mia!, Wicked, Blue Man Group, and Chicago. Tour wholesalers, like Travel Bound and Opentours, and destination management organizations such as the California State Tourism Office. Recent clients include the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Ground Zero Museum Workshop. She is also a free-lance writer with regular contributions to travel industry journals and magazines like “The Tour Operator” and “Shop America Magazine.” Email: [email protected] | WORKSHOPS| Ivor Ambrose | Managing Director of ENAT (European Network for Accessible Tourism) Ivor Ambrose works as an independent consultant providing research and project management expertise to public sector organisations, NGOs and companies in Europe. In 2006 he brought together an international group including VisitBritain, the Hellenic Ministry of Tourism, NGOs from Belgium, Spain and Greece, university tourism management specialists and Greek web services company EWORX S.A. to create the European Network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT). The association, which was co-funded for 2 years by the European Commission, was registered in Brussels as a non-profit organisation in 2008. Since then Ivor Ambrose has acted as Managing Director of ENAT with its 200 members in over 30 countries. Born in England, Ivor Ambrose has lived and worked in the UK, Denmark, Belgium and Greece and now divides his time between Cambridge, UK and Athens. He holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Psychology from the University of Surrey, UK (1979) and a Ph.D. by research, completed while working at the Danish Building Research Institute (1991). From 1998 to 2001 he worked for the European Commission Directorate General Information Society where he managed research projects and contributed to European policies on electronic services and support for the integration of persons with disabilities and older people. Email: Email: [email protected] Sophia Antoniadou | Co-founder and CEO | Discover Greek Culture Sophia Antoniadou received her Ph.D in Edinburgh University on Late Bronze Age trade in Cyprus. During her first years in Athens she worked as the Director of the Pierides Museum of Ancient Cypriot Art and still collaborates with the Pierides Foundation in Cyprus on European Projects. In 2009 and for three years, she worked as a scientific advisor on culture and education issues at the Hellenic Parliament and the Ministry of Culture while in 2012 she completed the Cyprus Theatre Museum in Limassol, which was her first independent museological project. She has published several articles on Cypriot Prehistory and politics and archaeology and her latest book (co-edited) is on culture and strategic planning. She teaches at the Hellenic Open University since 2008. In 2013 she co-founded the first company in Greece on cultural tourism, Discover Greek Culture. Email: [email protected] Alexandra Nikiforidou | COO and Project Leader | PostScriptum Ltd Following the completion of postgraduate studies in Museology at the University of Essex in the UK, Alexandra Nikiforidou has worked over twenty years mainly as a freelance professional and consultant in the museum sector, developing exhibitions for a broad range of institutions and teaching museology and cultural management. She has collaborated with the Foundation of the Hellenic World, the Museum of Greek Folk Art, the Benaki Museum, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, the Acropolis Museum, etc. and she has worked as a curator at the Museum of the City of Athens Vouros – Eutaxias. She teaches museology and cultural management at the Hellenic American Union and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Tetradia Museiologias and she has written extensively on museums. She is currently project leader at PostScriptum Ltd, which specializes in digital culture management. She has been involved in the research and management of the digital collection of the Museum of Greek Folk Art, Goulandris Basil & Eliza Foundation, the Byzantine and Christian Museum, the National Historical Museum, the OTE Telecommunications Museum. She has collaborated with the department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean as a researcher on the European project “European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen”, EUNAMUS and with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens on the programme CHESS. Email: [email protected] .

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