Curriculum Vitae

Personal information First name(s) / Surname(s) Jordi Baltà Portolés E-mail [email protected]

Place and date of birth Barcelona, 01.11.1976

Key work experience • Dates Since March 2014 • Occupation or position held International project consultant and researcher • Main activities and responsibilities Consultancy, research and training on behalf of public and private organisations active in the field of and international affairs. • Name and address of employer Freelance

• Dates Since September 2014 • Occupation or position held Advisor / Expert • Main activities and responsibilities - Support for the development of the 21 Actions toolkit on culture in sustainable - Technical assistance and capacity-building to local governments - Research on culture and • Name and address of employer Culture Committee, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) www.uclg.org www.agenda21culture.net

• Dates Since January 2015 • Occupation or position held Associate Lecturer, Degree in International Relations • Main activities and responsibilities - Delivery of a course on “ and International Development” (annual, since 2015) - Delivery of a course on “International Political Structure” (annual, in 2016 and 2017) • Name and address of employer Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llull. http://blanquerna.edu/en/

• Dates Since March 2011 • Occupation or position held Member, UNESCO Pool of Experts for the Implementation of the 2005 Convention • Main activities and responsibilities - Technical assistance and capacity-building to governments and public bodies in the Global South - Co-design of training manual for the elaboration of quadrennial periodic reports - Member of the Editorial Board of the 2018 Global Report, and author of one of its chapters • Name and address of employer UNESCO https://en.unesco.org/creativity/

• Dates Since October 2009 • Occupation or position held Lecturer / tutor (part-time), MA in Cultural Management (online) • Main activities and responsibilities - Support and advice to students of the Courses on ‘Concepts of Cultural Policy’ (since 2009) and ‘Culture in Contemporary Society’ (2014-2015). - Preparation and supervision of course activities. - Advice to students as regards professional development and academic affairs • Name and address of employer Open University of Catalonia (UOC, www.uoc.edu) / University of Girona (UdG, www.udg.edu)

• Dates January 2001 – February 2014 • Occupation or position held Project coordinator / researcher • Main activities and responsibilities - Project management in the field of international cultural cooperation and related areas. - Research and consultancy on cultural policy, development and international cultural cooperation, including the coordination of the European Expert Network on Culture (EENC) on behalf of the European Commission (2011-14). - Organisation of international conferences, seminars and meetings. - Identification of funding opportunities and fundraising at local, national and international level. • Name and address of employer Interarts Foundation. www.interarts.net

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Education and training

• Dates January – July 2001 • Title of qualification awarded Postgraduate Diploma in International Cultural Cooperation. • Name and type of organisation providing Universitat de Barcelona – Fundació Interarts education and training

• Dates (from – to) October 1999 – September 2000 • Title of qualification awarded MA in European Cultural Policy and Administration. • Name and type of organisation University of Warwick (UK) providing education and training Funded through a joint La Caixa Foundation / British Council-Spain scholarship.

• Dates (from – to) October 1994 – June 1998 • Title of qualification awarded BA (Llicenciatura) in Political Science and Administration. • Name and type of organisation Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona providing education and training

Languages

Mother tongue(s) Catalan

Other language(s) Spanish – Proficient level English – Proficient level French – Proficient level German – Intermediate level Italian – Basic level Portuguese – Basic level

Publications (selection)

 Jordi Pascual and Jordi Baltà, “Los temas culturales pueden (y deben) estar en toda la estrategia local sobre los ODS”, in Raquel Martínez-Gómez (coord.), Procesos de comunicación social para hacer locales los ODS. Experiencias de las ciudades iberoamericanas (Madrid: Unión de Ciudades Capitales Iberoamericanas – UCCI, 2018). Available at http://ciudadesiberoamericanas.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Procesos-de-comunicaci%C3%B3n-social-para-hacer- locales-los-ODS-jp_jb-1.pdf  Jordi Baltà Portolés, “Towards more collaborative cultural ”, in UNESCO, Re|Shaping Cultural Policies: Advancing creativity for development. 2005 Convention Global Report 2018 (Paris: UNESCO, 2017). Available at http://en.unesco.org/creativity/global-report-2018  Jordi Baltà Portolés and Milena Dragićevic Šešić, “ and their contribution to sustainable development: implications for cultural policy”, International Journal of Cultural Policy, vol 23, issue 2 (2017). Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10286632.2017.1280787  Jordi Baltà, Eva García and Raimon Àvila, “New spaces for creativity and action: Recent developments in the Applied Performing Arts in Catalonia”, in Stephanie Burridge and Charlotte Svendler Nielsen (eds.), Dance, Access and Inclusion: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Dance (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017)  Jordi Baltà Portolés, Culture & Disability: Policies and Practices in Asia and Europe (Singapore: Asia-Europe Foundation, 2016). Available at http://culture360.asef.org/asef-news/culture-disability-policies-practices-asia-europe-report-launched/  Jordi Baltà, “Artículo 19: Intercambio, análisis y difusión de información”, in Honorio M. Velasco and Jesús Prieto de Pedro (eds.), La diversidad cultural. Análisis sistemático e interdisciplinar de la Convención de la UNESCO (Madrid: Trotta, 2016)  Jordi Baltà, “Artists’ Freedom of Expression” and “Cultural Policy”, in Andreas J. Wiesand et al. (eds.), Culture and Human Rights: the Wroclaw Commentaries (Berlin, Boston and Bonn: De Gruyter / ARCult Media / of Wroclaw, 2016) Page 2/3 - Curriculum vitae of Jordi Baltà Portolés

 Nancy Duxbury, Jordi Baltà, Jyoti Hosagrahar and Jordi Pascual, “Culture in Urban Development Policies: an Agenda for Local Governments”, in UNESCO, Culture Urban Future: Global Report on Culture for Sustainable Urban Development (Paris: UNESCO, 2016). Available at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002459/245999e.pdf  Jordi Baltà Portolés, “El rol de las instituciones culturales en la promoción de la diversidad y el valor público de la cultura: reflexiones a partir del caso de Barcelona”, in Ricard Zapata-Barrero and Gema Rubio Carbonero (eds.), Interculturalidad y Política Cultural (Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 2016)  Identification and analysis of 27 case studies included in Several Authors, Cities: Living Labs for Culture? Case Studies from Asia and Europe (Singapore: Asia-Europe Foundation, 2015). Available at http://asef.org/pubs/asef-publications/3703-cities- living-labs-for-culture-  Barbara Torggler, Roya Murphy, Cyril France and Jordi Baltà, UNESCO’s Work on Culture and Sustainable Development. Evaluation of a Policy Theme, IOS/EVS/PI/ 145 REV.2 (Paris: UNESCO, 2015). Available at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002344/234443E.pdf  Jordi Baltà, with inputs from the UNESCO Internal Oversight Service (IOS), ‘Evaluation of UNESCO’s Standard-setting Work of the Culture Sector. Part IV – 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Final Report’, IOS/EVS/PI/134 REV. (Paris: UNESCO, 2014). Available at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002269/226932e.pdf  Identification and analysis of 27 case studies included in Several Authors, Enabling Crossovers: Good Practices in the Creative Industries (Singapore: Asia-Europe Foundation, 2014). Available at http://asef.org/pubs/asef-publications/3251- enabling-crossovers  Jordi Baltà Portolés, ‘Technical Assistance to . About Cultural Industry Development in Niger’, in Wolfgang Schneider and Daniel Gad (eds.), Good Governance for Cultural Policy. An African-European Research about Arts and Development (Frankfurt am Main etc.: Peter Lang, 2014).  Jordi Baltà Portolés, Vesna Čopič and Andrej Srakar, “Literature Review on Cultural Governance and Cities”, Kult-ur. Revista interdisciplinària sobre la cultura de la ciutat, vol 1, nº1 (2014). Available at http://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/kult- ur/article/view/1253  Jordi Baltà Portolés, “Culture and Development. Review of MDG-F Joint Programmes Key Findings and Achievements”, MDG-F Thematic Studies (New York: MDG Achievement Fund, 2013). Available at http://www.mdgfund.org/sites/default/files/Culture_Thematic%20Study.pdf.  John Holden and Jordi Baltà, “The Public Value of Culture: Literature Review” (EENC, 2012). Available at http://www.interarts.net/descargas/interarts2550.pdf  Jordi Baltà Portolés, “La diversidad cultural en el espacio euromediterráneo: una aproximación desde la Convención de UNESCO sobre la Diversidad de las Expresiones Culturales”, in Laura Huici Sancho (ed.), La Unión por el Mediterráneo: retos de la cooperación institucionalizada en la región (Madrid and Barcelona: Marcial Pons / Fundación Centro de Estudios Internacionales, 2011).  Jordi Baltà Portolés, “The Implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in the EU’s External Policies” (Brussels: Directorate General for Internal Policies of the European Parliament, 2010), IP/B/CULT/IC/2010_065, PE 438.588 32. Available at http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/note/join/2010/438588/IPOL-CULT_NT(2010)438588_EN.pdf

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