World Forum for intangible Cultural Heritage

Ananya BHATTACHARYA MODERATOR

Ananya Bhattacharya is the Co-Founder and Director of Contact Base (trading as banglanatak dot com), a social enterprise using culture-based approaches for inclusive and sustainable development across India. Ananya is an electrical engineer, and Commonwealth Scholar with a Master’s in Sustainable D..

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Moe CHIBA SPEAKER

Moe Chiba currently serves as the Chief of the Culture Unit at the UNESCO Jakarta Office, covering Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste, a position she has held since 2018. She began her career with UNESCO Headquarters in 2000, working first in the Division of Cre..

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Pauline FAN SPEAKER

Pauline Fan is the Creative Director of PUSAKA, a UNESCO-accredited cultural organisation dedicated to documenting and revitalising Malaysia’s traditional and ritual arts. PUSAKA works closely with master artists to enhance the viability of living traditions through documentation, writing, transmis..

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Susan O. KEITUMETSE SPEAKER

Dr. Susan O. Keitumetse is an international heritage expert with multi-disciplinary background that encompass Archaeology, Environmental sciences, Museums and Education. This has enabled her to mainstream heritage issues in a multi-sectoral, trans-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder perspective over tim..

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Sumi NAM DISCUSSANT

The researcher is a Senior Researcher at the Research Institute for Cultural Heritage (RICH) at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in Seoul, Republic of Korea. With over a decade of experience in the field of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), she specializes in research design, data analy..

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