Fostering European Cooperation for Cultural Heritage at Risk

26 – 28 February 2020, Dubrovnik

Moderators and speakers

Biographies

Ameels, Vera

The Reflection Group EU and HERITAGE - Contribution to the European Debate

Vera Ameels graduated from Ghent University as a historian and archaeologist. She is working as a policy advisor at Flanders Heritage, the Flemish ministry for immovable heritage. Her fields

of expertise are landscape, the spatial aspects of immovable heritage and the links with nature, agriculture and environment and archaeology. She cooperates with European colleagues through the Reflection Group EU and cultural heritage and the European Heritage Legal Forum.

She is the Flemish coordinator for the European Heritage Label and is a member of the European Archaeological Council. She is also a member of the Flemish UNESCO Commission.

Aslan, Zaki

Planning for Recovery of Historic Places in the Arab Region - Examples from Sudan & Iraq

Zaki Aslan is a conservation architect, who since 2003 has been Manager of ICCROM's ATHAR Programme (Conservation of Cultural Heritage in the

Arab Region), Rome, Italy. Aslan has provided technical advice to the Arab States on issues related to heritage conservation, management, and national planning/ policies, World Heritage procedures, implementation of

field projects as well as education, public outreach, capacity building and curricula development. He is the regional representative of ICCROM for the

Arab States and founding director of the ICCROM-Sharjah Regional Conservation Centre, UAE.

With more than twenty years of experience in the fields of Cultural Heritage Conservation and Planning (B.Sc. in Architecture, 1988), Aslan holds a Ph.D. in Heritage Conservation and Management from the University College London (UCL) and an MSc degree in Conservation of

the Built Environment from the University of Montreal in Canada (1991). He is editor of ICCROM-ATHAR publications series. Aslan also has been an honorary senior lecturer at University College London and lectured at the American University of Sharjah in the fields of

Heritage Conservation and Islamic Art and Architecture. He is a member of the editorial board of

the Journal of Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, Maney Publishing, U.K.

Brodie, Neil

The Nature and Scale of the Antiquities Market in Europe

Neil Brodie graduated from University of Liverpool with a Ph.D. in Archaeology in 1991 and has held positions at the British School at Athens, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological

Research at the University of Cambridge, where he was Research Director of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre, Stanford University’s Archaeology Center, and the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Glasgow.

He is presently Senior Research Fellow on the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project at the University of Oxford’s School of Archaeology, and a member of the Trafficking Culture project.

He has published widely on issues concerning the market in cultural objects, with more than fifty papers and book chapters devoted to the subject, and was a contributor to the 2019 European Commission report Illicit Trade in Cultural Goods in Europe. He has worked on archaeological

projects in the United Kingdom, Greece, and Jordan, and continues to work in Greece.

Cartalis, Constantinos

Adapting Cultural Heritage to Climate Change Risks

Constantinos Cartalis is a Professor of Environmental Physics at the

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a member of the Center of Excellence of the University of Athens on Climate Change – Adaptation and Mitigation and coordinator of the working group of the

Ministry of Culture on Climate Change and Cultural Heritage. He is visiting Professor at the Hellenic Open University (graduate program Environmental Design and Climate Change). He has been appointed

member of the Bureau of the Subsidiary Body of United Nations for the Implementation of the Paris agreement, Chairman of the Committee on

Climate Change and Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture in Greece, Principal Investigator

of the European Space Agency for the Dragon program on smart urbanization (run in collaboration with the National Remote Sensing Center of China) and member of the Assembly of the European Commission on Climate Neutral and Smart Cities. He has served as Member

of the Scientific Committee as well as of the Management Board of the European Environment

Agency, Vice President of the International Bureau of Education – UNESCO, Chairman of the

Environment Committee (2010-2012) and Member of the Parliament of Greece (2007-2012), and Secretary General for the Olympic Games (of Athens) at the Ministry of Culture (2001-2004). He has published 97 papers in international peer review scientific journals.

Dondelinger, Patrick

It’s about People, Not about Stones: Sharing Heritage and the Values of Humanity

Patrick Dondelinger was born in Luxembourg in 1966 and studied in Luxembourg and Paris. He has done field work in Europe, Africa, North and South America. He holds a Master’s Degree in History, Postgraduate Degree in Political Science, Doctoral Degree in History of Religions and

Religious Anthropology, and a Doctoral Degree in Catholic Theology. He was previously Lecturer and Professor at the Universities of Metz and Paris (France) and Lucerne (Switzerland), and a Curator at the National Heritage Institute (Luxembourg). He is currently

Head of Studies in Intangible Cultural Heritage and European Heritage Policy at the National Audiovisual Center (Ministry of Culture, Luxembourg), Member of Luxembourg National UNESCO Commission, ICOM Luxembourg, European Commission Expert Group on Cultural

Heritage, Reflection Group EU and Cultural Heritage, and National Coordinator European Heritage Label.

Donnelly, Jacqui Jacqui Donnelly is Senior Architect in the Built Heritage Policy section of the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in Ireland. She advices on architectural conservation at national level, promoting best practice and ensuring that the historic built environment is given

due consideration in the legislation, policies and practices of other government departments. She was the co-author of the statutory guidelines: ‘Architectural Heritage Protection Guidelines for Planning Authorities’, and the designer and editor of the Advice Series publications for

custodians of historic buildings. The latest volume in the series entitled ‘Disaster: a guide to prevention and preparedness in the historic built environment’ will be published later this year. She represents Built Heritage Policy on the steering committee for Ireland’s National Climate

Change Adaptation Framework and, with archaeology colleagues, published the Climate Change Sectoral Adaptation Plan for Built and Archaeological Heritage in October 2019. She is a member of the steering committee of the Climate Heritage Network and a member of the

ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change.

Eloundou Assomo, Lazare

Lazare Eloundou Assomo is an architect conservator and town-planner specialized in cultural heritage conservation and management. He has been Director for Culture and Emergencies at UNESCO since November

2018. The entity for which he is responsible deals with all matters regarding the protection of cultural heritage in emergency situations, restitution and fights against illicit trafficking of cultural objects, protection

of underwater cultural heritage, and museums.

He previously held the position of Deputy Director of the Division of Heritage and the World Heritage Centre. From September 2013 until October 2016, he was the

UNESCO Representative in Mali and responsible for coordinating the UNESCO’s actions to rehabilitate Mali’s cultural heritage and ancient manuscripts. It is in this capacity that he successfully coordinated the reconstruction of the destroyed mausoleums in Timbuktu by violent

extremist groups, in close cooperation with MINUSMA, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali. Prior to being posted in Mali, Lazare Eloundou Assomo was the Chief of Unit for Africa at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, where he was in charge of coordinating the

cooperation between the UNESCO and the African Member States for all issues related to World Heritage. He is the author of the book African World Heritage, a remarkable diversity published by the UNESCO in 2012.

Favel, Bruno

Geopolitics specialist, Officer of Arts and Letters, Knight of the National Order of Merit and Honorary President of the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP) of the

Council of Europe, and Coordinator for France of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, Bruno Favel heads the Department of European and International Affairs at the Directorate General of

Heritage (DGP) at the Ministry of Culture. He is also secretary general of the France-UNESCO Convention. He coordinates European and international policy in four areas: museums, heritage, architecture and archives, in collaboration with international and European

organizations and all relevant national and international partners. He was notably a member of the International Committee of the Silk Roads (UNESCO), President of the Committee for New Technologies of the Council of Europe, President of the Steering Committee for Heritage and

Landscape of the Council of Europe, as well as Director of the French Cultural Center for Salzburg and Upper Austria.

Grady, Anne

Since May 2016, Anne has worked as a seconded national expert with the Cultural Policy Unit of the Directorate General Education, Youth, Sport and Culture in Brussels promoting, inter alia, the intangible and tangible

cultural heritage of Europe. Anne played a senior role with the management of the recent European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 with a reach of over 12 million people and is now actively working on the legacy

programme of events and activities The European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage. Anne also has a special interest in cultural heritage

and sustainability, especially sustainable cultural tourism. She led a member states’ working

group (OMC) in this area and works on initiating and promoting the recommendations from the final report. Before joining the Commission, she was a senior manager with the National Museum of Ireland and was responsible for a number of areas including ICT, governance,

business planning and the development of a wide range of museum policies and guidelines. She was a member of the Member States Expert Group on Digitisation and Digital Preservation. In her earlier career working with the Ministry responsible for culture and heritage, she

developed policy and legislation in respect of the national cultural institutions and was instrumental in establishing a Heritage Fund on a statutory basis. As Education and Marketing Officer with Dúchas the Heritage Service, Anne was a member of both the UK and USA

Overseas Tourism Marketing Initiative Working Groups. Anne was responsible for introducing a number of major initiatives, which are still in existence in Ireland, notably the annual National Heritage Week and a yearly nation-wide pass called the Heritage Card. Anne has qualifications

in a number of areas including history, marketing, education, strategic management and corporate governance.

Hanus, Christian

Strategies to Increase the Protection of Cultural Heritage against the Effects of Climate Change

Prof. Dipl. Arch. ETH Dr. Christian Hanus is Dean of the Faculty of Education, Arts and Architecture at the Danube University Krems and Head of the

Department of Building and Environment. Prof. Hanus developed a series of implementation concepts for the reconstruction of historical towns destroyed by earthquakes (Paganica AQ, San Gregorio AQ, Italy). Prof. Hanus

undertakes Heritage Impact Assessments on behalf of the Austrian Federal Chancellery as requested by UNESCO and leads international advisory

commissions for World Heritage properties in Austria (e.g. Historic Centre of the City of

Salzburg, Wachau Cultural Landscape, Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural

Landscape). Prof. Hanus is founder of the Center for Architectural Heritage and Infrastructure

(2010) and of the Center for Cultural Property Protection (2015). In both institutions he launched international research and teaching programmes.

Horjan, Goranka

Vision, Leadership and Maintenance as Key Pillars in Risk Management

Goranka Horjan is the Director of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb and

has initiated the renovation of the museum complex. At ICOM General Conference in Kyoto, she was elected the chair of INTERCOM, the International Committee for Museum Management. From 2010 to 2016 she

was a member of the ICOM Executive Council and from 2016 to 2019 she was the Chair of Europa Nostra Heritage Award Jury in the category Education, Training and Awareness-Raising. From 2012 to 2017 she was

the Chair of the European Museum Forum Board of Trustees that operates the most prestigious museum award scheme in Europe including the

European Museum of the Year Award and Council of Europe Museum Prize. For 12 years she

was general director of the Museums of Hrvatsko Zagorje where she led several museum investments such as the Krapina Neanderthals Museum, renovation of the Veliki Tabor Castle and EU application for the refurbishment of the Studio Antun Augustinčić Gallery. She

participated in or/and personally drafted several EU funded projects like the Region of Digital Museums, ECULTVALUE (Horizon 2020), CRAFTATTRACT (Interreg), Renovation of Heritage for Smart and Sustainable Growth in Hyperconnected World (ERDF structural funds) and

Refurbishment of the former Royal Brewery in Kačićeva (ITU brownfield).

Magnant, Catherine

Protecting Europe’s Cultural Heritage – the EU Way

Catherine Magnant is Head of the Cultural Policies Department in the European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture. She

was previously Head of the Commission Task Force of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, which took place in 37 countries. She started her career in Moscow, where she headed the Press and Information Section of

the European Commission Delegation. Back in Brussels, she was part of the team preparing the EU enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe. She then

joined the EU's external relations service where she worked to promote human rights in third

countries. She later turned to internal EU policies and was Deputy Head of Unit for Cultural policy and Innovation in the Directorate General for Education and Culture, working on creative economy. Catherine, a French citizen, is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-

Cloud, Paris. She also graduated in international relations and Russian language from the

Sorbonne University.

Palmer, Robert

Robert Palmer is an independent consultant who works internationally on a wide range of cultural projects in the areas of cultural policy and strategy, cultural heritage, festivals and

events, creative economy and issues related to cultural policy and strategy, cultural rights and the cultural development of cities. He was formerly the Director of Culture and Cultural and National Heritage for the Council of Europe based in Strasbourg, France (2006-2013).

Prior to joining the Council of Europe, Robert Palmer had worked in the cultural sector for more than 30 years, and including was an adviser to several cities and regions concerning cultural development and regeneration, cultural tourism, festivals and arts policies. He advises

UNESCO, European Commission, Agenda 21 for Culture (UCLG) and many different European Cultural Institutes and cultural networks on cultural matters.

Robert Palmer was the Director of two European Capitals of Culture (Glasgow and Brussels),

published a report for the European Commission evaluating 40 European Capitals of Culture, was the Chair of the European Jury that selects European Capitals of Culture, and has advised many cities that have received the ECoC designation. He is the author of the book Eventful

Cities Cultural Management and Urban Regeneration and a wide range of articles and other publications.

Petrinec, Tomislav

Heritage in Armed Conflict – Croatian Experience

Tomislav Petrinec graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb. From 1989

he held the position of conservation architect at the Regional Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Zagreb. From 1997 he was Head of the Conservation department in the City of Zagreb and since 2014 has been Head of the Department for Conservation and

Inspection at the Directorate for Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture.

He has become the main conservator for immovable cultural heritage in 2017 and was in charge of establishing conservation departments, conservation supervision of works on cultural

goods, architectural documentation of construction and archeological heritage and the production of conservation studies. Between 1992 and 1997 he gained considerable experience with the work of the Special Commission for the Census and Assessment of war damage on

cultural monuments in the war-affected areas of Croatia. His long-standing management of the Expert Committee for determining the property of cultural goods has provided him with a wide insight and knowledge of the total corpus of Croatian cultural heritage.

Representing Croatia, he participated in the International conference Cultural Heritage

Protection in Case of Emergency With Respect to Flood held in September 1998 in Warsaw and Wroclaw with the presentation titled A model of filing and evaluation of damage caused to immovable cultural monuments under extraordinary circumstances. He also participated in the

international workshop Managing Disaster Risks in UNESCO Designated Sites held in September 2017 on the island of Hvar, Croatia, organized by the UNESCO Regional Office for Science and Culture in Europe.

Potts, Andrew

Preventing and Preparing for the Risks of Climate Change, or Why We Must Mobilise Cultural Heritage for Climate Action

Andrew Potts is the coordinator of the International Council on Monuments and Sites’ Climate Change and Heritage Working Group (CCHWG). In 2017, the ICOMOS General Assembly

meeting in New Delhi, India made Mobilizing ICOMOS and the Cultural Heritage Community To Help Meet the Challenge of Climate Change one of the organization’s stated goals. The CCHWG was formed to advance this ambitious mandate. The Group is currently working on a

variety of initiatives in line with ICOMOS’ view that cultural heritage constitutes an invaluable repository of information and strategies to address climate change, even while cultural resources are at risk from climate impacts.

A lawyer by training, for twenty years Andrew practiced law focusing on cultural heritage and sustainable development finance. He also previously served as Executive Director of US/ICOMOS where his work aimed to connect US historic preservationists to international cultural

heritage work in areas like disaster risk reduction, cultural landscapes, and telling the stories of all communities.

Andrew holds a J.D. from Indiana University. He served as Associate General Counsel of the

US National Trust for Historic Preservation and is the recipient of its John H. Chafee Trustees Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Policy. Andrew previously served as ICOMOS Focal Point for the UN SDGs.

Quaedvlieg-Mihailović,Sneška

CivilSociety,aVitalPartnerforEurope'sMobilisa:ontoSaveEndangeredHeritage

Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović (1963) has been working for Europa Nostra for more than 25 years. In 2000, she was appointed as Secretary

General. In this capacity, she works closely with EU institutions, the

Council of Europe, the UN, UNESCO and other international and European governmental and

non-governmental bodies on heritage matters. Since the creation of the European Heritage Alliance 3.3. in 2011, she acts as the Coordinator of this informal platform of European and international networks active in the wider field of heritage. She played a prominent role in

promoting the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH) and actively contributed to the EYCH Stakeholders Group. She is a regular speaker at European conferences and meetings on cultural heritage and is author of numerous articles on Europe and cultural heritage (most

recently she contributed to the special edition of "Cartaditalia" dedicated to the European Year of Cultural Heritage"). She has also contributed to the preparation of the European Report “Cultural Heritage Counts for Europe” (2015). Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović obtained a degree

in International Law in Belgrade (former Yugoslavia) and in European Law and Politics in Nancy (France). Prior to joining Europa Nostra, she worked for EU Institutions in Brussels and then for the European Commission Delegation in Belgrade. In 1991, she was one of the founders and

the first Secretary-General of the European Movement in Yugoslavia.

Russell, Joann

Building Resilience to Climate Impacts in Scotland: Risk Assessment and Adaptation

Joann Russell is Head of Estates at Historic Environment Scotland, responsible for the conservation and maintenance of the 336 properties in the

care of Scottish Ministers. She is a conservation architect with a particular interest in how digital data linkages can improve strategic investment and management decisions for the historic built environment. Others areas of

expertise include assessing and mitigating the impacts of Climate Change on the historic built environment, managing visitor safety in the historic built

environment and working with communities to explore the challenges and opportunities

presented by the built heritage.

Salmela, Ulla

Sustainable Heritage and Climate Crisis

Ulla Salmela works as Chief Intendant at the Finnish Heritage Agency. Her

main duties are connected with policy and guidance in the field of cultural environment, including international activities. Since 2013 she has been representing Finland in the Council of Europe Steering Committee for Culture,

Cultural Heritage and Landscape and in the Baltic Region Heritage Committee. She was also the National Coordinator of the European Year of Cultural

Heritage 2018. She is actively involved in the national working groups for European Heritage

Days and European Heritage Label.

Sciacchitano, Erminia

Erminia Sciacchitano is in charge of International affairs in the Cabinet of the Italian Ministry for cultural heritage, activities, and tourism. She has extensive experience in European policies and research on culture, heritage,

and landscape, with a focus on social values, creative economy, and regenerative management. Between 2014 and 2020 she contributed to the shaping of the EU policy on cultural heritage in general and to the European

Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 as Chief Scientific Advisor. She previously held positions of Head of Unit for International Relations and Research in the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage. She is an Architect and holds a Ph.D. in Historical Buildings Survey and a Master's Degree in

European Studies and International Negotiations.

Štajduhar, Dražen

An Overview of Croatian Efforts in Cultural Heritage Risk Reduction

Dražen Štajduhar is Head of the Sector for Disaster Risk Reduction at the Directorate of Civil

Protection of the Ministry of Interior. He holds a Master's Degree in political science and has been in the Ministry since 1993.

As Head of the Sector for Disaster Risk Reduction he is responsible for the development of the

National Disaster Risk Assessment, the core document for the development of the Disaster Risk Management Strategy. As a member of the task force, he coordinated activities in drafting the new Critical Infrastructures Law, which includes the cultural heritage sector. One of the tasks in

Critical Infrastructure protection is the coordination of risk reduction activities in a field of Cultural Heritage Protection against natural hazards and climate change.

Tandon, Aparna

Culture Cannot Wait: Integrating Cultural Heritage Protection into National and International Systems for Risk Reduction, Emergency Management and Humanitarian Aid

Aparna Tandon specialises in crisis response and disaster risk management for cultural heritage. As Senior Programme Leader at ICCROM, she is leading its flagship initiative on First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of

Crisis. Additionally, she leads the SOIMA (Sound and Image Collections Conservation)

programme aimed at safeguarding endangered audio-visual heritage. She has led post-event damage and risk assessments, emergency response and in-crisis training in Northern Iraq (2017), Myanmar (2016), Nepal (2015, 2016), Philippines (2013), and Haiti (2010). Through

ICCROM-ATHAR regional centre in Sharjah, she has held workshops and field schools for protecting heritage in conflict-afflicted countries including Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Egypt and Iraq. Additionally, she has trained military personnel, civil protection teams and humanitarians for

providing first aid to cultural heritage during emergencies. Aparna has authored several papers and publications. Her recent handbook on Endangered Heritage: Emergency Evacuation of Heritage Collections is being translated into ten languages including Arabic, French, Spanish,

Japanese and Russian. Aparna has an MA in Art Conservation from the National Museum Institute, India. She has received advanced level training in Paper Conservation from the Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums, USA. In 2001-2002 she enhanced

her professional experience first, as the Fulbright Arts Fellow at the Preservation Directorate of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and then as a Conservation Guest Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, USA. From 1998 to 2004, she worked as the

Curator-Conservator at the Amar Mahal Museum and Library in Jammu & Kashmir, India.

Trupković, Davor

Davor Trupković graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb. From 2003 until 2016 he was Deputy Head and Senior Expert Adviser Conservationist in Conservation Department in Karlovac (Ministry of Culture). In 2016 he was appointed Assistant

Minister of Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and in 2020 became Director of the Directorate for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture. He was Member of the Commission of the Ministry of Environmental and Nature Protection on behalf of

the Ministry of Culture in the procedures of strategic environmental impact assessment of the strategy, plan and programme and assessment of the environmental impact, Member of the Expert Commission of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure on behalf of

the Ministry of Culture for the strategic environmental impact assessment for the amendments to the 2007 – 2013 Operational Transport and Member of the Commission of the Ministry of Agriculture for the strategic environmental impact assessment of the 2013 – 2017 Multi-annual

Programme of construction of regulation and protection water structures and melioration structures. He was Representative of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia in the Ljubljana Process workshops in Zagreb and Sarajevo, regarding the securing of funds for the

revitalisation, repair and reconstruction of cultural property, and methods of evaluation of the efficiency thereof based on European experiences and Member of the Project team on behalf of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia for the successful preparation and realisation

of the Contract: IPA2007/HR/16IPO/001-040202 with the Central Financing and Contracting

Agency for EU projects in the grant for reconstruction of the structure of the Visitors’ Centre

Ivana’s Fairy Tale House / Ivanina kuća bajke within the Frankopan Castle in Ogulin. He was Representative of the Ministry of Culture at the UNESCO Conference and workshops in Zamosc, Poland and involved with the expert team for the project of the Government of the

Republic of Croatia regarding the designing of the Nikola Tesla Memorial Centre in Smiljan (2005 – 2006). He is member of ICOMOS Croatia and participant and member of teams preparing and realising programmes and projects co-financed by the European Union. His area

of expertise is research, study, status monitoring and promotion of cultural property, application of expert methods and measures of protection of cultural property, defining special conditions of construction, use and management of cultural property, conducting first instance administrative

proceedings in line with legal regulations on the protection and conservation of cultural heritage, conducting professional conservation supervision, as well as cooperation with religious communities, other state administration bodies and regional and local government units, as well

as cooperation with creators of physical planning documentation for different levels of plans.

Van Balen, Koenraad

Preventive Conservation of Cultural Heritage Sites: a Systemic Approach beyond Risk Prevention and Preparedness

Koenraad Van Balen is an Engineer-Architect (1979) with a post-graduate Degree in architectural conservation (1984) and Ph.D in Engineering (1991, KU Leuven). Academic staff

member at KU Leuven since 1993, he is full professor at Civil Engineering department and director of the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (RLICC). He has been a member of the research Council of KU Leuven and holder of the UNESCO chair on preventive

conservation, monitoring and maintenance of monuments and sites (PRECOM3OS) since 2008. He is also member of various associations and advisory organisations in the field of cultural heritage as ICOMOS, RILEM and member of the Council of Europa Nostra. He was involved in

activities of periodic reporting on World Heritage and has had long-term research collaboration in Ecuador and Cuba. Koen was a visiting scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles. His publications and research projects deal with heritage preservation and ancient and

new sustainable construction materials. He was coordinator of past FP7 projects and is the coordinator of the ILUCIDARE project. Koen was the former chair of the Scientific Committee of the Joint Program Initiative Cultural Heritage.

van Regteren Altena, Flora

Farming the Historic Landscape: towards a Better Integration of Cultural Heritage in a Sustainable Future Common Agricultural Policy

Flora van Regteren Altena graduated from Utrecht University as an art

historian. She is working as a senior policy advisor at the Ministry of Culture in the Netherlands and coordinates heritage and arts subjects in relation to the EU, the CoE and the UNESCO. She cooperates with

European colleagues, e.g. through the Reflection Group EU and cultural heritage. She represents the Netherlands in the Bureau of the Steering Committee on Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP) of the Council

of Europe and was the Dutch National Coordinator of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. Her fields of expertise also include the protection of heritage in the event of conflict and crisis situations and the illicit trade in cultural goods. For both subjects, she

is involved in the relevant UNESCO networks.

She previously worked in the Africa Unit at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and was a researcher at the Origins Unknown project dealing with cultural goods in the Netherlands with a

Second World War history.

Vetma, Matko

Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage - Dubrovnik Issues

Matko Vetma is a conservation architect and cultural heritage project manager. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb in 1983. From 1984 to 1996 he was employed in the

Conservation Department of the Ministry of Culture in Dubrovnik as Associate Architect and then Head of the Architectural Department and Assistant Director; from 1987 to 1993 he was a member of the Expert Advisory Commission for Reconstruction of Dubrovnik; from 1991 to

1993, Associate and Head of Ministry of Culture in the UNESCO expert team for recording and assessing war damage on cultural heritage in Dubrovnik, and from 1996 to 2005 he was a CEO of Građevinar Quelin d.d. specialized company for carrying out works of reconstruction and

restoration of cultural heritage. Since 2005 he has been employed at Studio Vetma d.o.o., architectural company for research, documenting and designing projects for the restoration of cultural property as the project manager's head and chief designer. He is author of numerous

projects for restoration of cultural heritage in the City of Dubrovnik area and Dubrovačko-neretvanska County. The focus of his work is designing, consulting and supervision of the performances of reconstruction works and the design of cultural heritage in the area of

Dubrovnik and its immediate surroundings. He has registered in the Directory of Authorized Architects of the Croatian Chamber of Architects in 1999 and is licensed for research, study and

documentation work and development of projects on cultural heritage issued by the Croatian

Ministry of Culture in 2001.

He was a founder member of Dubrovnik Architects Association and President (2000 - 2002), member of the Executive Board of Croatian Architect Association, member of the board for

enrollment (2007 - 2009), member of the Croatian Chamber of Architects HKA Disciplinary Tribunal (2010 - 2014), has been member of the Society of Friends of Dubrovnik Antiques since 1984 and was member of the Grand Council of the Society (2004 - 2005).

Vitti, Paolo

Time to Reconsider Our Strategies: Heritage as a Beacon for a Better Future

Paolo Vitti is a practicing architect and historian of architecture with over thirty years of experience in areas of ancient and modern architecture, restoration of cultural heritage sites and museum design. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame, School of

architecture - Rome Global Gateway and at Università di Roma Tre, Dipartimento di Architettura.

Vitti has designed restoration projects and carried out research on many sites in Italy (Rome,

Pompei, Pæstum, Buccino, Fratte, Suessula, Pontecagnano, Sybaris, Sorrento, and Ancona), Greece (Crete, Lemnos, Acaia, and Messenia), Turkey (Istambul, Iassos), Tunisia (Utica), Cyprus (Armenian Church, Archaeological site of the Old Municipality in Nicosia, Salamis) and

Morocco. His work includes collaborations with national and international institutions, in both the academic and professional fields. He is currently working with UNDP in Palestine for the restoration of Heritage sites, including Maqam en Nabi Musa, a major Muslim religious place

close to Jericho.

Recently his design activity is focused on tile-brick vaulting, experimenting with the recovery of traditional workmanship in construction together with new architectural forms.

He has been part of the international expert's committee for the Charter for the Restoration of Byzantine heritage monuments (Thessaloniki Charter, 2018). He is a researcher for the Italian School of Archaeology in Athens and a member of the Scientific Council of the Annuario della

Scuola archeologica Italiana di Atene e delle Missioni italiane in Oriente.

He has been invited lecturer at, among others, the University of London, British School of Rome, Humboldt University in Berlin, Princeton University, Pennsylvania University, University

of Texas in Austin, Technical University of Athens, University of Padua, Italian Archaeological School of Athens, Sapienza University of Rome, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

For the European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards, he received the Grand Prix in

category research (2014) and the Prix in category conservation (2015). Since 2018 he has been a Board Member of Europa Nostra. He is a member of the Executive Committee for Climate Change and, as such, gave a speech at the UN headquarters in NYC at the Climate Change

Action Summit 2019.

Yates, Donna

Technology and Market Regulation towards Countering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects in Europe

Donna Yates is an Associate Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at Maastricht

University. She is a member of the Trafficking Culture research consortium and has published widely on various aspects of the illicit trade in cultural objects. Along with Simon Mackenzie and Neil Brodie, she is the author of the recent monograph Trafficking Culture and is currently

principal investigator on the European Research Council-funded project Trafficking Transformations: Objects as Agents in Transnational Criminal Networks looking at the illicit movement of antiquities, fossils, and collectible wildlife.

Zebec, Tvrtko

Living Heritage – Intangible Culture at Risk from the Moment of Selection

Tvrtko Zebec. Ph.D. is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, Croatia. He was Director of the Institute from 2011 until 2015 and in 2019 was appointed Assistant Director. He is honorary professor and lecturer in Croatia, visiting scholar at

Choreomundus International MA, UCA (France), author of bilingual book Krčki tanci – Tanac dances on the Island of Krk – Dance Ethnology Study (2005), Chair of the Publication Committee and member of the Board of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology. He is also

Artistic Director of the Zagreb International Folklore Festival. His area of interest is performance context, dance events in the past and in the present, and history and development of ethnochoreology, applied work and intangible cultural heritage.