World Forum for intangible Cultural Heritage

Moe CHIBA MODERATOR

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 C..

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Ananya BHATTACHARYA SPEAKER

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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Eric B. ZERRUDO SPEAKER

DR. ERIC BABAR ZERRUDO is the Executive Director of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the former Director of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Graduate School Center for Conservation of Cultural Property and the Environment in the Tropics (USTGS-CCCPET). He is also an Associate ..

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Tomo ISHIMURA SPEAKER

Ishimura Tomo is the Director of Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. Ph.D. (Kyoto University, 2010). He joined the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in 2006 and has been involved in safeguarding cultural herita..

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Jae Kweon SEO DISCUSSANT

Jae Kwon Seo is Professor at the Department of Heritage Management, Korea National University of Heritage, specializing in international law and intellectual property law in both theory and practice. He participated in multiple free trade agreement negotiations, including Korea–U.S., Korea–China, an..

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