Teachers

Wendy Ramírez Simon

Society and Culture in the 21st century

Dr Wendy R. Simon holds a degree in Political Science by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a PhD in Contemporary Philosophy and Classical Studies by the Universitat de Barcelona. She is an associate professor at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya among others. She is also Executive Director of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona’s Journal of Catalan Intellectual History (JOCIH) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Anuari de la Societat Catalana de Filosofia of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC). She is a member of the Institute of Law and Technology (IDT-UAB). Her lines of research include the democratic theory, Modern political philosophy and the crisis of contemporary democracies.

Miguel López-Remiro Forcada

Society and Culture in the 21st Century

He is a graduate in Economy and he holds a PHD in Philosophy from the University of Navarra. He has an MBA from IESE and he is the first Spanish graduate from the Getty Leadership Institute in the Claremont University, Los Angeles.  Visiting Scholar and lecturer at University of California, San Diego. Collaborator of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Deputy Director of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Founding Director of the Museum of Navarra. He is the editor, with worldwide rights, of the anthology of texts by Mark Rothko, Yale University Press and Flammarion. Lecturer in the area of Arts at the University of Navarra. Lecturer at ISEM business school where he is a researcher on creativity and Management. In parallel he pursues a career as consultant of independent art, economist of culture, artististic entrepreneur and curator of institutions and collections of high prestige.

Diane Dood

Cultural Institutions and Policies

Diane Dodd is President of IGCAT (International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism) and co-founder of the European Region of Gastronomy Award that has grown into a World Region of Gastronomy Platform. She is also Regional Adviser for the global network IFACCA (International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies). She has been an independent evaluator for the Cultural Routes programme of the Council of Europe and editor of a number of Cultural Policy and Cultural Management publications for the European Cultural Foundation (ECF). She provided expert advice to Plovdiv and Valletta in the preparation for their respective bids to be European Capital of Culture. Diane has worked in the cultural policy and management field for over 20 years and maintains relations with a number of important Global and European Institutions including UNWTO, UNESCO, European Commission, OEI, Commonwealth, Asia-Europe Foundation and many others. She obtained her PhD from the University of Girona in 2010.


Danuta Glondys

Cultural Institutions and Policies

Dr. Danuta Glondys is an independent consultant and an academic teacher. Since 2010 she  has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland) and since 2021 a consultant of the European Committee of Regions, International Cities of Refuge Network and the City of Gdańsk assisting in implementation of the Mayor Paweł Adamowicz Award for courage and excellence in the promotion of freedom, solidarity and equality. Between 2001-2016 she was the Director of the Villa Decius Association in Kraków and in the period of 1993-1999 the Head of Culture Department of the Municipality of Kraków, where she created new municipal policy in the field of culture and the programme Krakow 2000 – European City of Culture. From 1999 until 2001 she was the Regional Director of USAID local government development programme. Until 2008, she was also the Chair of the Polish National Committee of the European Cultural Foundation. Between 2013-2018, she was a Member of the Programme Council of Genshagen Foundation, Germany and in the period from 2014-2017, a Member of the Board of International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN), Norway. Appointed three times by the European Parliament, she was a member of an international EC jury , responsible for selecting and monitoring the European Capitals of Culture (2009 – 2018). An author of numerous publications and articles dealing with cultural management and intercultural communication as well as an editor and a co-editor of 16 publications dedicated to contemporary global challenges. A passionate and often times solo traveller, she has visited over 35 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Mohammed Hassan Elrazzaz Elrazza

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. 

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.

Marc Simón Altaba

Legal Aspects of Museums, Foundations and Cultural Institutions

Cum laude excellent international PhD in Intellectual Property Law. XII Extraordinary Award  of the PhD dept. at UPF Law Dept (2020). Advanced Master in Legal Sciences (Pompeu Fabra University). Bachelor in Law (Pompeu Fabra University). Predoctoral fellow by AGAUR, DAAD and Max Planck Institute of Munich, Germany. With publications in international and Spanish magazines specialized in Intellectual Property, like the International Review of Intellectual and Competition Law, or Pe. Magazine of Intellectual Property. Author of book chapters ("The right to transform and new technologies" in the book "Commercial Law and Technology" by Aranzadi Editorial; "Transformation of pieces of intellectual property and trademark law" for the book "Industrial Property Yearbook" by Tirant editorial) and of the monography "The musical creation and copyright" by the international editorial Juruá, among others. In the teaching field, previous to his incorporation to UIC, he has been an associate professor in UPF, the University of Barcelona, UNIR and ESIC. He has professional experience as a lawyer in intellectual and industrial copyright, and competition law.

Amilcar Vargas

Legal Aspects of Museums, Foundations and Cultural Institutions

Amilcar Vargas holds a PhD from the University of Barcelona and is responsible for World Heritage at Casa Batlló. His main task is the implementation of the World Heritage Convention, raising awareness of the Outstanding Universal Value and pursuing the potential opportunities of Casa Batlló's inscription on the UNESCO List. He is an international expert in World Heritage Management. His international experience includes academic stays in Canada, Germany and Mexico, conference presentations in 13 countries and several publications. He is a member of international professional associations such as ICOMOS and ICOM, among others.

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.

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.

Rafael Valenzuela Garcia

Leadership, Culture and New Technologies

Social psychologist, Master’s Degree in Leisure Management and PhD in Cultural Management; member of the research group in Social, Environmental and Organisational Psychology. He investigates the use of time and motivation in leisure (playing music practice, physical-sports activity, citizen engagement). Based on the theory of self-determination, he analyses intrinsic and autonomous motivations, satisfaction of psychological needs (competence, autonomy and relationship), well-being, flow and quality of life. University teacher since 2006 in bachelor’s degree programmes in Psychology, with focus on social psychology and research; and in business schools, with focus on leadership, talent and performance in organisations.

Clara Laguillo Abbad 

Leadership, Culture and New Technologies    

(Barcelona, 1984) PhD in Philosophy, specialised in Aesthetics, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2018. Her field of research revolves around temporal discomforts in the context of digitisation and the investigation and experimentation of ways of temporalising dissidents.

She is a co-coordinator and teacher of CursO at EINA. Since 2019 she has coordinated the Master’s Degree in Digital Art Curatorship (ESDi-URL) where she also teaches. She also teaches at the Centre for Image and Multimedia Technology (CITM-UPC), and this year she is joining the team of the Master’s Degree in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona. Over the last two years she has contributed to the website of the Technological Circle of Catalonia (Actualiza’t – FOCUS section), while co-coordinating the quarterly research programme of collective curators, (creating) Situations that takes place at the Centre d’Arts Santa Monica.

She has taught at the UAB (Philosophy, Nanotechnology), at EINA (MURAD), at the University of Barcelona (Fine Arts), in Blanquerna (Ramon Llull University) and at the University of La Plata (Argentina). For over 15 years she has been interested in what it means to curate, especially in digital context formats. She has participated in numerous processes of curating and mediation (CaixaForum), documentation (Joan Miró Foundation), classification (personal archives of artists such as Mercè Boronat and Manolo Laguillo), content programming (Lluïsos Teatre), montage (Foto Colectania Foundation) and cataloguing (Military Museum of Menorca). 

Of her wide experience, the cofounding of the Nomade platform in 2012 is a highlight. Art and thought (2012-2015).

Interpersonal care is a main priority of her professional work.

Esther Belvis

Leadership, Culture and New Technologies

Esther majored in Pedagogy by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and she obtained her PhD in Theater and Performing Arts by the University of Warwick (UK). Nowadays, Esther is the director and cofounder of The Social Vim Collective, a creative study that develops projects with social impact for the cultural, educatie, environmental and humanitarian sector, for organizations like Telefónica Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, Un or ‘La Caixa’ Foundation, among others.

Jordi Padró

Cultural Heritage Management

Holder of an undergraduate degree in Geography and History from the University of Barcelona. Consultant in the fields of heritage, museology and cultural tourism. Founder and director of Stoa, a consultancy firm specialising in heritage, museology and cultural tourism. Lecturer in a number of courses, university postgraduate degrees and seminars on cultural and tourism management and local development. Institutional advisor on cultural and tourism policies, museum programming and production, territorial projects aimed at promoting and educating about cultural and natural resources.

Manel Miró

Cultural Heritage Management

Graduated in 1985 in Prehistory, Old History and Archaeology from the University of Barcelona. FreelanceI archaeologist from 1989 to 1992. Specialized in 1990 in patrimonial management by the School of Heritage of Barcelona. Since 1998, he is the main consulting àrtner of the Area of Interpretation and Museographic Projects in Stoa. He has directed more than a hundred projects in Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Peru. Lecturer and professor in more than 15 Spanish and Latin American universities. He has published articles about interpreting heritage and museology in different university magazines and he’s the author of the cultural heritage blog ‘Raining Stones’.

Ainhoa González Graupera

Visual Arts Management

Holder of an undergraduate degree in Art History and a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies and Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Barcelona. She has taken courses as part of a PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism and earned an Advanced Studies Degree. From 2004 to 2016, she worked at MACBA as an assistant curator. She has also worked for companies specialising in the transport of works of art and exhibition assembly and collaborated with galleries and artists.

Valerie Miles

Publishing Industry Management

Valerie Miles, writer, editor and translator, was born in the United States and currently lives in Barcelona. She co-founded British magazine Granta’s Spanish-language project in 2003 whilst managing the publishing house Emecé, part of Grupo Planeta, in Spain. She also established the New York Review of Books’ (NYRB) contemporary classics series in Spanish during her time as associate director of Alfaguara. She has written pieces for The New Yorker, The New York Times, El País, La Nación, The Paris Review and Granta, among other publications.  She is currently a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts in the United States for her translation of Crematorio by Rafael Chirbes, soon to be published by New Directions, for whom she has also translated works by Enrique Vila-Matas.  Her co-translation and extended edition of Juan Eduardo Cirlot's Diccionario de símbolos (A Dictionary of Symbols) will be published by the New York Review of Books in 2020. Her translation of Esto también pasará (This too shall pass) by Milena Busquets was selected as a finalist for the Impac Prize in 2016, as well as receiving the PEN Translation Prize.  Her most recent publication from Yale University Press is a study of Nobakov by Azar Nafisi, which gave rise to the author’s best-seller, Reading Lolita in Tehran.  Valerie curated the exhibition Bolaño Archive. 1977-2003 at the CCCB in Barcelona, the fruits of extensive research into the writer’s private archives.  She is currently involved in the publication and translation of Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares' monumental memoirs, for the NYRB. Her first book, A Thousand Forests in One Acorn presents a collection of conversations with some of the twentieth century’s most important writers. It was first published in English and later translated into Spanish under the title Mil bosques en una bellota. She a member of Malba Writers Residence’s honorary committee in Buenos Aires, alongside John M. Coetzee, Soledad Costantini, Christian Lund and Jorge Monteleone, and she was named one of the “most influential professionals in publishing” by the El Libro Foundation in Argentina.

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. 

Claudia Balboa Salas

External Work Placement Coordinator

Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the University of the Basque Country (2014) and University Master's Degree in Cultural Management from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (2015). She has worked as a cultural manager at the Cervantes Institute in Beijing and collaborated with various companies and institutions in the design of cultural projects and exhibitions. She also participated in the conceptualisation of the infrastructure development plan for Langyuan Station in Beijing, to transform this industrial area of Pekin into a space for Culture and Creative Industries in the country. After her experience in China she returned in October 2018 to Spain, as director of the Rioja Wine Cultural Centre, a historic building linked to wine tourism. As interim civil servant of the City Council she developed the Master Plan and cultural, social and training programme for the reopening of the facility. In 2020 Claudia established herself as independent cultural consultant and she collaborated with the Langyuan New Times Culture in the definition of the cultural development plan and a new urban space for the Music and Performing Arts in Wuzhen. She also provides services to mono office architecture studio production of artistic projects, such as “I Want to be the Future: The Anatomy of Technological Seduction,” developed together with the Chinese artist Cao Fei, for the Whitechapel Gallery in London and the Alserkal Avenue in Dubai. She currently coordinates the Postgraduate Studies in Cultural Management at UIC Barcelona.