Teachers

Mohammed Hassan Elrazzaz 
Tools for Managing Culture. Funding for Culture. Cultural Project
Mr Elrazzaz holds a BA degree in Commerce / Economics (Cairo University), a diploma in Cultural Studies (University of Granada) and a Master’s in Arts & Cultural Management (UIC Barcelona). His career combines 10 years of expertise in the financial sector with 12 years of hands-on experience in the cultural field as the founder and mastermind of an active cultural community. He received the ifa-Stuttgart scholarship in the Mediterranean category in 2011. Since 2013, he has worked at the Secretary of the Union for the Mediterranean (UIM) as Coordinator of Regional Integration. His book ‘The Mediterranean: A Shared Heritage’ was published by EMUNI in 2017.

Christoph Pasour
Cultural Marketing. Audiovisual Industry Management. Cultural Project. Academic tutor work experience. 
Mr Pasour is a TV Producer. He holds a degree in Art History and Media Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) and also Edinburgh University (UK). He has authored articles for newspapers and magazines on media art and cinematography. He was the project manager and curator at the Museum for Cinematography in Potsdam, Germany; commissioning Editor in the film department of the 3sat cultural television channel (Germany/Austria/Switzerland). He has also been involved in script development (fiction/non-fiction) for production companies in Berlin and Hamburg. He has been a producer/author on documentaries since 2005 for production companies in Berlin, Hamburg and Barcelona for broadcasters such as ARTE, 3sat, ARD, ZDF, RAI, YLE, TV3. He currently is the director of the University Master's Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona..

Senem Tüzen
Audiovisual Industry Management
Senem Tüzen, born in Ankara and citizen of Spain, wrote and directed the Turkish mother-daughter drama Motherland (Ana Yurdu), her first feature film, which premiered at the 2015 Venice Critics' Week. The film has won 18 national awards, Best Screenplay at the 2015 Asia-Pacific Awards, two FIPRESCI awards (Warsaw and Istanbul) and was among the ten films proposed by FIPRESCI for the 2016 European Film Awards. She co-directed the narrative documentary Eat Your Catfish (2021), which premiered in competition at IDFA and won Best Documentary at the Istanbul Film Festival. She was also one of six international finalists for the 2022 Academy Gold Fellowship for Women, awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Previously, she has contributed to various film and television projects, including Al Jazeera and Turkish state television productions, as a producer, editor and director of photography. She also worked as a script doctor for the Turkish series "Another Self" (2022 - 2023) on Netflix. Currently, she is a lecturer in the 'Master’s Degree in Film Directing' at ESCAC.

Inés Martínez Ribas
Cultural Communication and Information. Cultural Project
Writer, reporter and sociologist. She studied at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), the University of East London (UEL) and the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). She graduated in Political Sciences and Sociology (UAB and UEL) and Sciences of Information (UAB) and she studied a Master in Journalism El País (UAM). She has worked as editor in newspapers such as El País, La Vanguardia and El Periódico; she was the press and protocol manager in institutions like ‘La Caixa’ Foundation and The Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), and she has written many articles. She works as a communications consultant. ‘Caribdis. En mar de nadie’’ (Ed. Distrito 93, 2020), her first novel, was finalist in the III August Dupin Contest Black Novel 2020.

Xavi Menós 
Cultural Communication and Information
I was born in Sudanell, Lleida in 1981. At 23, I graduated with a BA in Audiovisual Communications from the Pompeu Fabra University (Bachelor’s Degree Extraordinary Award). For two years I worked at Localia TV where I produced shows and hosted the cultural show "Siroco". In 2005 I received a scholarship from “La Caixa" foundation and I moved to New York where I studied an MA in Media Studies at The New School (2006-2008). From July 2008 to February 2022, I was part of Shakira's staff where I was responsible for creating digital content and executing launch strategies for albums, tours and brand partnerships. I documented her "Sale El Sol” (2010-2011), "El Dorado” (2017-208) World Tours, the Super Bowl 2020 (amongst others) generating content for her social media platforms, media partners, official DVDs and movies. While freelancing for ELLE’s Editor-in-chief, Nina Garcia, I was part of the "Project Runway” family for 13 seasons. I also helped coordinate ABC's official coverage of the Oscar Red Carpet in 2012 and 2017. Photography is my biggest passion. My work has allowed me to photograph Shakira and Coldplay tours, more than 250 fashion shows, creating images shown over multiple screens. My passion for music has led me to photograph two Coldplay tours "Mylo Xyloto" (2012) and "A Head Full Of Dreams" (2017) and the Glastonbury Festival (2017) in the United Kingdom. My photographs have been published in magazines such as Marie Claire (USA and Spain), ELLE, USA Today, El País Semanal, La Vanguardia, Cinemania, SModa, Rolling Stone, AR, Qué Leer, National Geographic, HOLA, amongst other national and international publications. In 2011 I illustrated the cover of Elvira Lindo's book "Lugares Que No Quiero Compartir Con Nadie" (Seix Barral). My photos have also featured in two exhibitions: "In & Out” (2015) in Lleida and in "New York Just For The Brave” (2017) at the Cervantes Institute in Manhattan.

Alfonso Gironza Marqués
Creation of Cultural Companies
Alfonso Gironza holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering-UPC (1999). He has a Master's Degree in Company Quality Management from the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya-UPC (2005) and an Executive Master's Degree in Business Administration EMBA-IESE Barcelona (2010). Since 2005, he has been a management consultant for industrial services enterprises. From 2003 to 2009, he worked as an internal consultant at IBM Global Services and, from 2000 to 2003, as a project manager at Deutsche Bank.

Sandy Fitzgerald
Funding for Culture
Sandy has over forty-years´ experience in the cultural sector, including: Executive Director of City Arts Centre, Dublin (1973 to 2001), board member of the Royal Hospital National Cultural Centre (1985 – 1990), later to become the Irish Museum of Modern Art; board member of the Dublin Film Festival (1988 - 1993); Executive Committee Member of Trans Europe Halles, the European network of Independent Cultural Centres (1997-2002). Currently Sandy is a co-director of Olivearte Cultural Agency delivering training, consultancy and project management across Europe.

José María Sanchis
Performing Arts Management
Jose Maria Sanchis Perales was born in Valencia. He holds a degree in Law from the University of Barcelona, is specialised in international relations and spent three years preparing for the annual national examinations at the Diplomatic Corps.  He has been working in the cultural sector since 1998, first at the CCCB in Barcelona and from 1999 at L’Auditori in Barcelona in the technical department. From 2003, he was head of production for Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and worked on productions for Sonar Festival, Primavera Sound and Peralada Festival, among others. He lectures on the master’s degree in Management and Musical Production at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, as well as teaching Performing Arts Management at UIC Barcelona. He also regularly collaborates with different educational institutions such as the IESE Business School, Blanquerna, Pompeu Fabra University, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the University of Deusto.

Armando Rotondi
Performing Arts Management
Armando Rotondi is an academic, writer, theatre practitioner and cultural manager from Italy. He is Full Professor and Leader of the MA Creative Performance Practice at the IAB – Institute of the Arts Barcelona (validated by Liverpool John Moores University). After a BA at the Federico II University of Naples and a 2-year MA at the Sapienza University of Rome, he achieved his PhD at the University of Strathclyde in 2012. He also gained 3 university professorship habilitations. Armando is author of several academic publications: more than 10 authored and edited books; more than 50 book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals; more than 50 papers at international conferences, including 4 papers as a keynote speaker and on many chairs of expert panels. He is a founding member of INIT – International Network of Italian Theatre and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance. In addition, he is a member of many editorial boards and boards of trustees. Armando is also active in the field of European and international research project and grants. He was Project Co-Manager of the Creative Europe “Make a Move” project on art incubators for independent and non-institutionalised theatre in Europe at the IAB and is currently co-organiser of the EASTAP Conference 2024.