Delegates Profiles BAASANDORJ Bayaraa Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture (MSUAC), Mongolia Associate Professor B. Bayaraa is Head of Department of International Collaboration at the MONGOLIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND CULTURE (MSUAC), ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA (since 2010). During her 25-year career for the university she worked as Dean of the Faculty of Management in Culture and Arts (2004-2010), Chair of the Department of Social Sciences (1994-1996) and Chair for the Department of Foreign Languages (1998-2004). She was educated at the Kubansky State University, Russian Federation, specialized in history (1985), and graduated from the National University of Mongolia as an interpreter (1991). Her area of expertise is development and implementation of international projects in the field of arts and culture. As a project leader and coordinator she initiated and organized numerous international workshops and forums in the field of arts management, cultural administration, cultural tourism, creative industries and cultural policy. In the role of a dean and project manager, she put her efforts into establishment of the first in the country MA Program in Arts Management and coordinated trainers’ teamwork on curriculum development. Assoc. Prof. B.Bayaraa is an initiator of such international events as the nomadic arts festival “Culture Naadam” and international discourse meeting “Tree of Culture”, annually organized by MSUAC in collaboration with international partners. Lately she has contributed to successful implementation of the university UNESCO supported projects, organized in the field of cultural diversity, intercultural communication and cultural statistics; and has collaborated with Urban Nomads//Nomad citizens (Germany) on interdisciplinary art projects organized both in Mongolia and Germany. 1 | P a g e BACHMAN, Ursula Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art, School of Art and Design, Switzerland Born in Switzerland. Ursula Bachman received her teaching certificate at the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Art – School of Art and Design. She graduated with a Master of Arts in Fine Art degree from Birmingham University (GB). Since then she has lived and worked as an independent artist in Lucerne and Zurich. She has taken part in national and international exhibitions and festivals, where she has exhibited drawing, installation and animation. She has also realised several art and architecture projects. Studio residencies in New York and Cairo followed and frequent travel in the Middle East made her an expert on the region. From 2004 – 2010, she was a member of the Swiss UNESCO Commission, Section for Cultural Affairs. From 1995 – 2011, Prof Ursula Bachman has taught three-dimensional design, drawing and exhibition design at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Art and Design. From 2007 – 2014, she led the interdisciplinary study area “Projektmodule” (now called “IDA-Module”) and is committed to its continuous development. Since 2011, she has been Vice Dean and Head of Interdisciplinary and International Programmes at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. She is currently responsible for the bachelor’s degree programme and the foundation course (a. i.). 2 | P a g e BECK Thomas University of the Arts Berne (HKB), Switzerland Prof. Dr. Thomas Beck is president of the University of the Arts in Berne/Switzerland (HKB). Being educated as a journalist he studied literature, theatre science and musicology in Erlangen/Germany. After leaving the university Thomas Beck became chief dramaturge at the Theatre of St. Gallen/Switzerland before he changed to Swiss National Television as head of the Performing Arts department. 3 | P a g e BROCH KNUDSEN Cecilie Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, Norway Chair of the board of the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, Norway since January 2015. The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme has overall national responsibility for promoting and guiding artistic research in Norway. The programme has two sub-projects: The Fellowship Programme and The Project Programme. The Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme is parallel to other research educations organised as academic PhD programmes. The programme intends to secure high level artistic research and leads to expertise as Associate Professor. The Artistic Research Fellowships Programme is among the first in this field in Europe. The programme offers a three-year position as Research Fellow to candidates who have completed the highest art education within their subject area. The Project Programme was established with funding from the Ministry of Education and Research in order to contribute to academic members of staff at Norwegian universities and university colleges carrying out artistic research of high international standard. • Rector and Chair of Oslo National Academy of the Arts from 2007 to 2015. • Chair of Trafo Kunsthall from 2015 • Member of the board for Talent Norge AS, appointed by the Ministry of Culture. 4 | P a g e CHANG Chung-shiuan Vice President, Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), Taiwan Chung-shiuan Chang obtained an Ed.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1991 with her research focus on children’s creative dance. Influenced by Dr. Liu Feng-hsueh, a famous choreographer and dance scholar in Taiwan, she has shown her interests and talents in dance performances and dance studies. She was a founding member of Dr Liu’s Neo-Classic Dance Company at the age of 13 and continued her dancing career till 1993. She has been a full-time teacher at the Taipei National University of the Arts（TNUA） since 1992. At TNUA, besides teaching, she was selected as the chair of dance department, the dean of school of dance from 2000 to 2006. Specializing in dance pedagogy and curriculum design, her papers have been presented in conferences in Taiwan, Greece, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Her academic papers related to dance education are also published in different Taiwan’s journals including “Arts Review”, “Research in Arts Education”, “Taiwan Dance Research Journal” and “Journal of Aesthetic Education”. In recent years, she published “Creative Dance Guidebook” (2007) and “To Dancer．TNUA”(2008) two books . Currently she is the vice president at TNUA. 5 | P a g e CHRISTEN Gabriela Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts, School of Art & Design, Switzerland Prof. Dr. Gabriela Christen was born in 1961 and grew up in Lucerne, Switzerland. After studies in art history, French literature and philosophy in Basle, Paris, Vienna, Zuerich and Berne she worked as project manager and curator at the Swiss National Museum. From 1994 to 1996 she was director of the museums of the canton of Nidwalden. Since 1996 Gabriela Christen worked as cultural editor at Swiss Radio DRS; from 1999 to 2002 she was deputy editorial director of the culture department. From 1999 to 2009 Gabriela Christen gave lectures at the department of Art & Media at Zurich University of the Arts, furthermore she was a member of the executive team from 2002 to 2007. Since 2009 she was deputy head of the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film at Zuerich University of the Arts. She has been dean of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Art & Design since March 2010. 6 | P a g e CHULUUN Altantsetseg Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture (MSUAC), Mongolia Professor Chuluun Altantsetseg is Vice President for Academics and Research of the Mongolian State University of Arts and Culture (MSUAC), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (since 2010). She received her B.Sc. in Clothing technology at the Saint-Petersburg State University of Technology and Design, Russian Federation (1985), did her M.Sc. in Clothing science (1994) and Ph.D. in Engineering (1998) at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST). In 2015 she defended her D.Sc. in Clothing science at the Academy of Sciences of Mongolia. Upon her graduation from the university, she had been employed as a Coordinator by the Ministry of Domestic Services of Mongolia (1985-1987), as a Lecturer at MUST (1987-1998), and worked as Head of Fashion Design & Technology Department and Director of Clothing Research Centre of MUST in 1998- 2010. Professor Ch.Altantsetseg’s area of research is clothing thermal engineering design, while her expertise area is fashion technology of Mongolia national costume and art education study. During her career in the higher art education field she contributed greatly to curriculum and training technology development of both MUST and MSUAC. Since 2010 she has worked intensively for improvement of academic programs of MSUAC in relevance to international standards in higher art education. Besides her work dedicated to upgrading of a credit system and artistic research of MSUAC, Professor Ch.Altantsetseg has worked as a project leader and concept developer for several big scale international and national projects, conducted by MSUAC in the field of art education, creative industries and cultural statistics. 7 | P a g e CRABTREE Paula Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden Since April 2014 I have held the position as Vice Chancellor at Stockholm University of the Arts in Sweden. Prior to this I was Rector at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) in Norway (2010 – 2014) where I was also Dean at the Dept. of Fine Art (2002 to 2010). For the past four years I have been a member of the ELIA Executive board. I have been actively involved in projects initiated within the auspices of ELIA and for two of these make the link between the respective projects and report to the board. I am co-artistic director for NEU NOW Festivals, which have been held successfully in Vilnius, Nantes, Tallinn, Porto and Amsterdam. In 2014 the Festival was held in Glasgow, coinciding with the ELIA Biennial conference. From 2015 onwards the NEU NOW Festival returns to Amsterdam, for a period of 5 years. I am also member of the steering group for EQ-Arts and am active in both training programmes for experts and in institutional reviews.